Assistant Head: Head of Sixth Form
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for January 2023
- Apply by:
- 29 June 2022
Job overview
As we head into 2023 and into a new phase for our Sixth Form, with stunning new facilities and a fresh outlook for our students, we are seeking to appoint an inspirational teacher, ready to take on this rare leadership opportunity as Assistant Head: Head of Sixth Form at one of the country’s leading girls’ day schools.
As the face of the Sixth Form, you will lead the academic and co-curricular provision of Years 12 and 13, as well as play a key part in market positioning and public profile, promoting a happy, vibrant and scholarly working atmosphere for students and staff and creating a perfect bridge between school and university life.
You will be a key member of the Senior Management Team, working closely with the Head and the Deputy Heads (Academic and Pastoral) to implement the overall vision for the school and for the Sixth Form on a day-to-day basis. You will be actively involved with the SMT in formulating and delivering whole school strategy and in planning for future change and development in the Sixth Form in line with the school’s stated objectives and the three strategic pillars.
This post presents an exciting opportunity to further your career and play a vital role as part of a vibrant, challenging and enormously fun Senior Management Team, so if you are an excellent teacher with the imagination, innovation and dynamic leadership qualities that will prove invaluable in presenting Wimbledon High Sixth Form as a leading example of post GCSE education in the sector, we would love to hear from you.
About Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London.
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. We’re incredibly proud of that heritage, and the fact that we are a beacon school of the Girls’ Day School Trust.
As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further information and to apply please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9am on Wednesday 29 June 2022.
We will be interviewing on 4th July 2022, with the possibility of a second round on 5th July 2022.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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