Assistant Headteacher - Head of Sixth Form
Eastbury Community School
Barking
- £69,420 - £75,732 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L14- L18 incorporating Inner London Allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2023
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2023
Job overview
Assistant Headteacher: Head of Sixth Form
Required for Easter 2023
Leadership Spine 14 – 18 (with Inner London Allowance)
Sixth form Roll 229 / Secondary Roll 1800
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, experienced and innovative leader to widen their experience and further their career in our outstanding Sixth Form (Ofsted 2018). You will set the ethos of excellence for sixth form students and staff and be responsible for all aspects of 16+ achievement. Key aspects of the role include monitoring the quality of provision across the Eastbury Community School Sixth Form and taking a pro-active approach to developing teachers’ pedagogy and practice, as well as the day-to-day operational leadership and management of the sixth form.
You will join our all through strategic leadership team playing a key role in providing outstanding education for and improving the life chances of the students and young people in our local community.
We are looking for someone who is:
· Passionate about both academic success and personal development and wellbeing, and therefore able to make a real difference to the life chances of young people.
· An exceptionally talented teacher and inspirational leader with a proven track record of success.
· Able to contribute to the development of our vision and have the drive and perseverance to deliver it.
· A team leader and player who is highly organised, yet flexible, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, who remains visible and calm under pressure.
· Able to motivate and inspire teams of dedicated professionals and happy learners; and use a common sense approach to implementing current educational developments.
· Able to win the confidence of students, parents, staff, governors, Local authority and the wider community through an honest and caring approach.
This is a key role in the continued development and success of Eastbury School as an all through 3-19 school. We believe we are a good and improving school with the clear ambition of becoming outstanding in the near future. Our exceptional trajectory of improvement and outstanding progress supports this judgment.
Eastbury Sixth Form is in a partnership of five school sixth forms in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Student achievement and attainment outcomes have consistently seen year on year improvement, with more than 85% of year 13 students progressing to Higher Education. The partnership heads of sixth form work collaboratively to improve provision across the five schools
A job description and personal specification are available on our website www.eastbury.bardaglea.org.uk .
Please contact Karen Dunnell kdunnell@eastbury.bardaglea.org.uk or telephone 0208 507 4518 for a telephone appointment to discuss the role if needed.
Completed forms should be returned to the Head teacher’s PA, Karen Dunnell kdunnell@eastbury.bardaglea.org.uk The closing date for applications is 9am Monday 30th January. Personal statements should be no longer than 2 pages of A4 – Font size 12.
Eastbury School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We are committed to and promote equalities in our practice. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks including enhanced DBS checks
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About Eastbury Community School
About Eastbury Community School
Eastbury Community School is an exciting, challenging and rewarding place to work. Our 3-19 All through school is a large, well-ordered and diverse community of 2200 pupil. We are proud of our achievements and excellent reputation, both locally and nationally. The school strives to be at the forefront of educational improvement and is a Leading Edge school. Our success is founded on the traditional values of academic excellence, self-discipline, responsibility and respect for others.
Eastbury was judged overall as good, with an outstanding sixth form by OFSTED in July 2018. We believe we have continued to improve and are on the cusp of becoming outstanding. Our exceptional trajectory of improvement and outstanding progress support this judgment.
We feel we are both the ideal place to begin your career in education, or gain the valuable experience needed to develop it further. Our highly praised NQT program is highly valued and our early career teachers stay with us for a few years. Many of our staff gain promotions both internally and externally, which reflects the high expectations we have of all, and the excellent standard of support that is offered to all staff across all areas. Eastbury Community School always seek to employ talented and inspirational individuals who will ensure the highest standards of academic achievement and pastoral care for all our pupils. In return, we provide a rich experience and the professional development needed for further promotions.
Eastbury Community School is part of a successful 6th form partnership arrangement with four other local secondary schools. This partnership will potentially cater for the educational needs of over 1000 pupils studying a diverse range of academic and vocational courses. We have had increasing numbers of pupils achieving top grades in our sixth form; in 2019 we had 24% A*/A and an average grade of B-. Although we cannot publish 2020 grades, we improved on this and our 3-year ALPS measure is a 3, which places us in the top 25% for value added. This was also reflected in the destinations of our pupils, with multiple pupils gaining places at Oxbridge, plus Imperial College London, the LSE and KPMG apprenticeships. Overall, 64% of our pupils went on to study at Russell Group or top third universities. Just like skills and character traits, our pupils have a range of abilities. What we consistently do here, is push them to achieve no matter what their starting point is.
Many families choose Eastbury because they feel that each child in our care is offered an exciting, broad and balanced curriculum and can be assured of support and encouragement to attain their full potential. We see our school as a family: caring, supportive and well-ordered, with a commitment to everyone achieving their best. We challenge our pupils to achieve ambitious goals and to never settle for second best.
Our aim is to create a genuine learning community in which all pupils are challenged and stimulated, cared for and supported. Our mission statement is “Getting the best from and for all our learners” and you will observe from our website and visit to the school this is fast becoming a reality. If you are an enthusiastic and dedicated professional who shares this commitment and are inspired to apply for the post, we would be pleased to receive your application.
We invite you to visit our website www.eastburyschool.co.uk to find out more detailed information about our school.
Find out more about a career at ECS here: Join Our Community
The school is located within easy walking distance of Barking tube and mainline station and has good links to the A13, A127, A406 and M11. Barking and Dagenham is an excellent Borough to work for, committed to raising attainment and developing its staff. Full Inner London Weighting is paid
Sharon Gladman
Executive Headteacher
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