Assistant Head Personalised Learning and Wellbeing
Queenswood School
Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required from September 2022
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2022
Job overview
Queenswood is an GSA, BSA, HMC Boarding and Day School for approximately 440 girls aged 11 – 18, set in beautiful Hertfordshire countryside close to London.
The school wants to appoint an innovative, ambitious and energetic Assistant Head for September 2022. This is a new post and a Senior Management position. The successful candidate will have significant academic experience as well as energy, drive and diplomacy. The successful candidate will be a kind and positive individual to lead a successful Personalised Learning Centre. Reporting to the Deputy Head Pastoral, the role is central to teaching and learning across the whole school as well as the management of our Wellbeing Centre.
The successful candidate will have SENCo experience and possess a strong understanding of how personalised learning for all is central to the teaching and learning throughout the school. They will be an outstanding teacher with experience of developing staff and systems to raise the academic potential in every pupil as well as an exceptional understanding of the mental health challenges facing young people today.
This role carries a high level of safeguarding responsibilities. Full safeguarding checks will be carried out on the successful applicant. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
A competitive salary is offered plus benefits.
Interested applicants should go to https://www.queenswood.org/vacancies for a full job description and to apply.
Closing date for applications 17 May 2022.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
With regard to the safeguarding the welfare of children all applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening including enhanced clearance from the Disclosure and Barring Service and checks with past employers.
About Queenswood School
- Queenswood School
- Shepherds Way, Brookmans Park, Hatfield
- Hertfordshire
- AL9 6NS
- United Kingdom
Queenswood is a progressive boarding and day school for around 480 girls, aged between 11 and 18, where boarders make up more than half of the School. An all round education focuses on equipping the girls with all the life skills required of women in the 21st century. Within a caring and supportive framework, the girls enjoy a dynamic academic curriculum, supported by a diverse and exciting extra-curricular programme.
It is a warm and friendly community where everybody knows each other. Girls thrive within a nurturing house structure tailored to meet the needs of the girls as they progress from the Junior School, through the Middle School, and on into the Sixth Form. Day girls are fully integrated within the houses, are able to enjoy all the facilities and opportunities available to the boarders, but choose to go home at night after a packed school day. There is a flexible approach to boarding to meet the varying needs of individual families; girls may choose to be full boarders or just to remain in School for four or five nights a week.
Queenswood is proud to be an international community with an outward looking approach; overseas girls make up around 20% of the pupils. We welcome girls of all faiths and none, recognise and support an individual’s adherence to her own faith, but expect all girls to embrace the School’s broad spiritual ethos.
The girls are ambitious high achievers, winning places at the top universities both at home and abroad prior to embarking upon a range of exciting careers. Individual talent also flourishes in sport and the creative and performing arts. As important as individual achievement is the development of a sense of responsibility for each other and the world in which they live. Queenswood girls are thoughtful young people with a secure set of values and self-confidence.
The beautiful Queenswood estate provides the perfect educational environment. Being just 25 minutes from central London, it also has the advantage of easy access to the cultural richness of the capital. At the same time, its proximity to major international airports provides ease of travel for both our overseas girls and for those participating in the School’s foreign exchange and visit programmes.
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