Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape what happens in classrooms - the most important area of school life. We are striving to be a community where there is a genuine passion and excitement about how students learn and how teachers teach, where teachers’ practice is research and evidence based, and risk taking is the norm, where teachers are learners, collaborating with and developing one another through professional dialogue.  We want to be known for our dynamic teaching and learning. The successful candidate will lead our Teaching and Learning Team and Lead Practitioners and will work closely with our core team of Senior Leaders on developing curriculum, teaching and learning and staff.

We are a committed, united Senior Leadership Team who are without compromise in our continuing programme of improvement.  The successful candidate will be an outstanding practitioner, passionate about pedagogy and be actively researching and experimenting with their own practice and have experience of training others.  If you have a desire to work collaboratively with teachers and students and want to inspire and energise others with your passion for teaching and learning, then this is the role for you.  Our aspirational student population is richly diverse with a significant proportion of students with African and Afro Caribbean heritage and we welcome and encourage applications from people from all backgrounds.  

The successful candidate for this post will be:

• An outstanding teacher, ideally a Lead Practitioner or playing a key role in teaching and learning currently

• Strategic, creative, energetic and highly organised

• Committed to keeping abreast of current approaches to teaching and learning 

• Focused on ensuring that students are stimulated and challenged and engaged in their own learning

• An excellent leader and communicator with a clear sense of moral purpose

• Have a clear vision for what outstanding teaching and learning looks like

St Ignatius College is:

• A well-respected, oversubscribed Jesuit Community committed to the academic, spiritual and personal development of each individual: the formation of the whole person

• A warm friendly community where all are respected and valued

• Committed to ensuring that all achieve regardless of their starting points or background

• A school where teachers are developed ‘’through a strong programme of ongoing individualised support” and where leaders are ‘’without compromise in their continuing programme of improvement’ (Ofsted). We are committed to our staff and want to develop them to the full in a supportive environment.   

• A school where students are courteous, respectful and keen to succeed

• Teacher testimonial: “I feel that I have really grown professionally at St Ignatius College. Teachers are encouraged to take risks with their practice and the CPD is second to none.  It is an incredibly supportive environment.”

What we offer:

• A culture of professional development and advancement opportunities 

• Excellent training programmes for colleagues at all stages of their career

• Excellent modern facilities in a well-resourced school, with access to free parking 

All applicants are strongly encouraged to visit our school.  

Visits are available at 10am on Wednesday 31 March and 11.10am on Tuesday 20 April please contact Ms Bapodra (P.A to Headteacher) on bapodrad@st-ignatius.enfield.sch.uk to book a visit.