Assistant Headteacher - English
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
Liverpool
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade: L11 to L15 Actual Salary: £50,475 - £55,599
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- May 1st 2018
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2018
Job overview
About the School
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a highly successful school who are committed to providing the best possible outcomes for all our students, it is a thriving environment and a Specialist Sports College and a leading school in the local area.
About the Role
Governors are seeking to appoint an experienced, dynamic and forward thinking leader of English, who has a proven track record of raising standards for students of all abilities. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious leader with the skills to lead a key department, to gain the experience of being a strategic member of the Senior Leadership Team.
Duties Include:
- To fulfil all the responsibilities of a main-scale teacher.
- To provide professional leadership and management for English.
- To provide professional leadership to SEND.
- To support, hold accountable, develop and lead department staff, including TLR post holders.
- To ensure high standards of teaching, learning, student achievement and progress.
- To ensure effective, and safe use of all resources and equipment.
- To play a full part in the life of the school community, supporting its ethos and policies and ensuring that staff and students follow this example.
- To work alongside the Senior Leadership Team, as a member of the Extended Leadership Team, to provide strategic support and/or to lead on specific elements of the whole school development plan.
Personal Qualities
- You will be an exceptional classroom practitioner and an outstanding leader with the ambition to progress to Deputy Headship in the future.
- Your approach to teaching and learning will be innovative and inspirational with a student centered vision.
- You will have the drive and energy, coupled with a desire to take the English department, and cross curricular literacy to a new level reflecting the highest aspirations and opportunities.
- Other Assistant Headteacher responsibilities will be determined following appointment depending on experience.
- You will have a degree and qualified teacher status.
- All appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks and excellent references.
How to Apply
A job description and person specification are available on the school website at http://www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk
Applications and a covering letter should be sent to Lynn Lewington (PA to Headteacher) l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk by the closing date of midday Friday 23 February 2018. Interviews will take place week commencing 26 February 2018.
Closing Date: Friday 23rd February 2018
Contact Details
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
Honeysgreen Lane
West Derby
L12 9HZ
Contact Name: Sandra Fleming
Contact Telephone: 0151 235 1430
Contact e-mail: s.fleming@cardinal-heenan.org.uk
Website: http://www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk
NOR: 1400
Attached documents
About Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
- Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
- Honeys Green Lane, Liverpool
- Merseyside
- L12 9HZ
- United Kingdom
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a mainstream secondary school for boys aged 11-18. This state voluntary-aided school is situated in West Derby, Liverpool. It is an oversubscribed, larger than average school with an excellent reputation in the sporting arena and increasingly in the arts.
High standards of behaviour are expected by the staff, who help create a close-knit community. The school was awarded specialist sports college status in 2001 and teachers use excellence in this sphere to inspire teamwork and academic progression in the classroom.
In September 2012, Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School moved into newly built premises, which has given its pupils access to innovative science, art, ICT, media, music, catering, technology and PE facilities, plus a new sixth-form centre.
Headteacher
Karen Smyth
Ethos and values
The Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School motto is "Respect, Believe, Achieve". The school aspires to live up to these values through the prism of its Catholic faith.
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School offers a welcoming and inclusive community that demonstrates the love of God to all, through words and actions. Gospel values are represented in collective worship, assemblies, the curriculum, policies and daily life at the school.
The school challenges its pupils to strive to be good citizens by taking on responsibility for others, locally, nationally and internationally, in order to serve the common good. It also expects the boys to nurture their gifts and talents in every aspect of school life.
Ofsted report
“The headteacher provides strong leadership to the school. Newly appointed senior leaders have strengthened the school’s capacity to improve outcomes for all pupils. The leadership of teaching is good. The quality of teaching is improving quickly; professional development is a strong feature of the school. Progress in modern foreign languages is outstanding. Teachers build strong relationships with pupils to aid learning.”
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