Headteacher
Welling School
Bexley
- £90,879 - £99,864 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- TKAT Leadership Scale L28 -L32
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2023 or September 2023
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2023
Job overview
Job Title: Headteacher Closing date: 30 January 2023 - 10.00am
Location: Welling School, Bexley Interview date: 3rd and 8th February
Salary: TKAT leadership scale L28 - L32
(£90,879- £99,864)
Start date: April or September 2023
Are you an experienced leader looking for something different? Do you want to lead a school where you can feel you are making a difference every single day? If so, we’d like to hear from you.
At The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) we believe that for all of our staff to be truly fulfilled and successful, they need to be heard, developed and empowered. Therefore we are looking for someone who can demonstrate our values of shared voice, shared belief and shared success to work within our TKAT family.
We are seeking to appoint a substantive Headteacher for September 2023 to work alongside the Executive Head in a rapidly improving school. This is an extraordinary model because we’re looking for an extraordinary person! The role will be to initially work alongside the Executive Headteacher to develop a self-sustaining school, with the aim to take on full responsibility in the future. The role would suit an exceptional Deputy who has experience of rapid school improvement, or a serving headteacher who would like to extend their current success to a larger school setting.
Informal discussions with the Executive Headteacher and/or visits are actively encouraged. If you would like an informal and confidential discussion about the role and to arrange a visit to the school please contact Julie Wood on 020 8304 8531 or email recruitment@wellingschool-tkat.org
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of
applications.
Safeguarding: TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.
Our Commitment - Equal, Inclusive, Diverse: TKAT is committed to inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity by encouraging and welcoming differences, listening to individual experiences, aspirations and accomplishments and learning how to grow better together. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic; this includes applicants wishing to work flexibly.
Access to interview:- should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the interview environment. If we can accommodate practical
workplace adjustments to assist we will.
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About Welling School
Thank you for taking the time to consider applying for the post advertised at Welling School. The successful candidate for this post will be a teacher who can take their love of teaching and use it to inspire and motivate students to achieve or exceed their absolute potential.
At Welling School our mission is to achieve high standards and fulfil the expectations of all students of all abilities and from diverse backgrounds. We passionately believe that every child does matter and that they deserve to enjoy their learning experience with us. Our dedicated staff place students' interests at the centre of everything they do, ensuring that students have high aspirations and are able to reach their full potential. Our 'Welling Ways' engenders the values of nurturing the whole child to be an inclusive citizen in preparation for their future life and work.
Welling School is located in the Borough of Bexley, just 25 minutes outside of Central London with excellent transport links. Our co-educational 11-18 students can study a broad range of subjects through our innovative curriculum. We are an oversubscribed Academy with a Visual Arts Specialism that has gained a national reputation for being at the cutting edge of contemporary practice in art. In February 2015 Ofsted judged the school to be good in every category, including the 6th form, where many of our students choose to stay to continue their studies. We are part of the TKAT family, one of the largest multi-academy Trust's in the South East of England, who's ultimate aim is to ensure that educational standards are driven up through the provision of outstanding teaching, leadership and learning for all. The Trust CPD programmes provide additional training opportunities to work alongside the school's excellent in-house training programmes.
We have excellent facilities and continue to invest in resources to enhance our students learning. We have a rich and full range of extra curricular activities including a school choir, sports clubs, STEM club, reading club and other performing arts and curriculum based activities, as well as our educational trips and visits and charity expeditions.
If you share our vision and values, then we would be very pleased to hear from you. I encourage you to make an appointment to visit the school so that you can see Welling 'at work'. We look forward to hearing from you.
Rob Pett
Headteacher
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