Assistant Head and Deputy Head
Kingfisher Primary School
Medway
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2023 or September 2023
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2023
Job overview
Assistant Head and Deputy Head
Kingfisher and Saxon Way Primary
The Griffin Schools Trust is a unique family of schools in the Midlands, London and the South East united in building great schools on the three pillars of Proud Traditions, Wide Horizons and High Achievement.
Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions for children to discover who they are and then to go on confidently to take their places in society and to make a personal difference through the use of their talents. We will never teach a child to know their place.
The Trust now seeks an Assistant Head or Deputy Head for both:
Kingfisher and Saxon Way Primary
Salary dependent on experience
Both schools are judged to be strongly good by Ofsted, however Griffin Great covers a far wider set of measures and both schools in their different ways provide a Great education to their children and a rich professional environment for their staff. Talent is recognised and grown at Kingfisher and Saxon Way amongst adults as well as children.
Find out more about each school and the Trust visit:
Working with the Heads of School and supported by the Trust’s leadership development programme, the successful applicants will be coached into effective and creative senior leadership. Candidates will have shown a belief that all children can achieve at least national norms in the outcomes they have led and will have a record of contribution to the wider life of their current schools.
The Griffin Schools Trust has a tradition of rich curricular and co-curricular provision based on the three pillars and Kingfisher and Saxon Way form a GST collegiate with Lordswood School, giving opportunities for leaders to work together in a collegiate and across our twelve schools. Please research the Trust and the schools and if the leader in you is excited by these opportunities, we look forward to hearing from you. Please send a full CV and a statement of no more than 2 sides of A4 telling us:
(1) how in your career so far you have shown a belief that all children can achieve at least national norms, evidenced in outcomes
(2) what motivates you to join our senior team and GST more widely
(3) how you have earned your place in it by what you have achieved so far.
Your application and contact details of two referees should be addressed to the Executive Head Janey Denton and sent to sbanks@saxonway-gst.org
For a confidential discussion in advance of applying, contact sbanks@saxonway-gst.org
Closing date midday Monday 20th February 2023.
Shortlisted candidates will be notified by Wednesday 22nd February 2023.
Interviews will be held Monday 27th February 2023.
Start date either April 2023 or September 2023.
Attached documents
About Kingfisher Primary School
- Kingfisher Primary School
- Kingfisher Drive, Princes Park, Walderslade, Chatham
- Kent
- ME5 7NX
- United Kingdom
About the Griffin Schools Trust
The Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is a family of ten primary and two secondary schools in the Midlands, London and South East. We have a strong track record in making schools much better for children and their families and for the staff who work with us. Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions in which children discover who they are and then go on confidently to take their places in society, making a contribution to the world through the use of their talents. We will never prepare children to know their places.
When schools decide to join us they bring their histories to us and together we turn them into traditions reflecting the Trust’s mission and values whilst preserving and extending the each school’s individuality. We offer a rich curriculum and an unusual range of enrichment and extension clubs and activities. We also have shared traditions so that children form every school feel part of the same family. Every summer term we hold the Griffin Arts Festival. In the spring we have Founders Day and the Science Symposium and in the autumn students compete in the Griffin Science Symposium. All these festivals are linked in an annual theme schools’ four houses compete for a Trust cup which is awarded to the house colour which has accumulated most points from all Trust events. All staff, including the CEO, belong to a house.
Great GST schools have nothing institutional about them and great GST staff are thoughtfully recruited for their excellent knowledge and their broad interests. They are developed by Heads as well as the research and training opportunities offered across the Trust to add their individual magic to the mix. All our schools practice open and distributed leadership and place a high value on creativity as well as growing great talent pipelines to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for promotion within and beyond the school.
Look at our website and click through to some of the schools as well as the one to which you are applying. We are frequently told that colleagues have found their professional home at GST. Is it yours? We look forward to hearing from you.
Anne Powell
Chief Executive Officer
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