Assistant Headteacher - Behaviour and Engagement
Netherthorpe School
Derbyshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L13 to L17: £66,919 to £73,819 gross per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2025
- Apply by:
- 24 February 2025
Job overview
Minerva Learning Trust is an expanding Sheffield based multi-academy Trust with a vision of providing outstanding education for all the students within our schools. The Trust is passionate that all students should see their time at school as happy and fulfilling with their potential developed to the utmost.
Netherthorpe School is a popular 11-18 school in Staveley, Chesterfield. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive school for all. We regard all staff and pupils as part of our family and whilst we have really high expectations of everyone, we maintain a caring and supportive ethos. We strongly believe in work-life balance and we work with our staff to actively promote and improve wellbeing.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated and ambitious Assistant Headteacher who is passionate about high quality pastoral provision. The role would involve working as part of our Senior Leadership Team and our Assistant Headteacher for Behaviour and Engagement to strategically lead and enhance our pastoral provision to ensure high standards of behaviour and engagement of all out students. This role would suit an experienced existing Assistant Headteacher looking for a new challenge or an outstanding and experienced middle leader who is looking for the next step in their career.
This appointment is a key opportunity to join a highly supportive, passionate, committed and experienced team who lead ethically and morally and with the best interests of all students at the centre of all decision making. Applications are welcome from colleagues with the drive and commitment to consistently pursue the highest standards and those who will bring an innovative, inspiring and challenging approach to whole-school leadership.
Candidates are encouraged to have an informal discussion about the role with Helen McVicar, Headteacher.
The successful candidate will have:
- proven experience and success in leading and developing strong pastoral provision
- belief in the worth and potential of every student
- the ability to implement and secure change successfully
- excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to lead and inspire colleagues
- a passion and drive for school improvement
In return we can offer you:
- a strong commitment to your ongoing professional development
- mentoring by and support from an experienced Headteacher, senior team and central Trust staff
- the opportunity to work collaboratively with other school leaders throughout the Trust
- the chance to make a real difference to the lives of our inspiring children and young people
- access to other employee benefits offered by our Trust
Applications should be made by completing the Minerva Learning Trust Staff Application Form found on the Trust Central website.
Visits to the school are encouraged. Further information is available by contacting Lyne Jordan, Headteacher’s PA, via email: ljordan1@netherthorpe.derbyshire.sch.uk.
If you would like to join our friendly team, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: 9.00am on Monday 24th February 2025.
Interviews will take place on Thursday 27th February 2025.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment, further information can be found in our child protection and safeguarding policy on our statutory information page on our website Statutory Information - Minerva Learning Trust. The successful candidate will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In line with KCSIE, the trust/school will be carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence.
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About Netherthorpe School
Netherthorpe is truly thriving at the moment and I am extremely proud of the staff and the students who work and attend here. Standards of teaching are higher than they have ever been and students are achieving remarkable results. The new buildings have provided us with facilities that are a match for any in the area, and our refurbished old buildings still lie at the heart of the school, as they have done for many decades.
This school can trace its existence back to 1572 when three local families, the Sitwell family, the De Rodes family and the Frechville family decided to set up a school to serve the local people of Staveley, with the aim of providing extra-ordinary opportunities for ordinary children. Whilst I think our children are anything but ordinary, I can identify with these sentiments and we are still trying to do exactly this 400 years later.
Whether you are visiting this website because you are considering sending your child here to be educated, because you are considering applying for a job here, or because of some other connection with us, I hope you leave with a sense of what this school is really about.
Netherthorpe is special. Our ‘Care, Guidance and Support’ is outstanding and has been recognised as such on consecutive OFSTED inspections. We aim to develop each child that comes to us in a welcoming and safe environment, so that they achieve highly and enjoy doing so. Our motto ‘Learn, Enjoy, Succeed’ is at the heart of all we do and children thrive because of the exceptionally strong relationships that exist between the staff here and the students. Our Sixth form is thriving and we attract around 90 applications from other local schools each year, as well as our own Year 11 students. Our experience in supporting students post-18 has led to many students continuing their education at Universities all over the country (including Oxford and Cambridge), whilst others have gained worthwhile employment, apprenticeships or college places after being carefully mentored and prepared for interviews by our careers team.
Student Leadership is a particularly strong feature of student life here. We encourage students to take responsibility, have a voice on school matters and get involved in the organisation of events. We have a School Council, a School Parliament, Sports Leaders, a Charity Committee, a Prefect system and Year Group committees to mention but a few. We are as keen to produce confident leaders who show initiative and are willing to get involved, as we are to produce students with high qualifications. We work hard at both.
Netherthorpe has by no means achieved all that it is capable of and our ambition is to be recognised as one of the best schools in the country - we aim to be a truly outstanding school in every aspect of our work. We constantly seek to improve our practice and we expect all staff who come to work here to do the same.
I hope you find the information you are looking for in visiting our website. Should you visit the school in the near future, I am confident that you will sense for yourself the ambition we have for every student, as well as the warmth and support we provide for them.
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