Assistant Headteacher

Assistant Headteacher

 Full time
Leadership Pay Spine 13 - 18
September 2017 

We are a forward thinking and innovative school filled with ambitious and passionate staff who deliver excellence in the classroom and provide a full and enriching education for our students. Are you ready to join this aspirational and effective school? Do you see yourself as trail-blazing and making a phenomenal difference to students, staff and the wider community? If so, then please read on and we will look forward to hearing from you.  

Your role will initially be crafted to meet your existing strengths and experience but over time you will take on the responsibility for other leadership functions.  

Tring School can offer the successful candidate:   

• an outstanding experience at a senior level with involvement in all aspects of the school’s leadership
• significant  opportunities for professional development both in this school and further      afield
• the chance to work with exceptionally committed colleagues who have high expectations      of students
• an environment where excitement, innovation and inspiration are the norm

Tring School is very popular and over-subscribed, serving the town of Tring and the surrounding villages. It is a mixed Church of England comprehensive school with over 1500 students on roll including 330 in the Sixth Form. Academic attainment is well above average and improving year on year. The school strives to support and encourage individual growth within a caring community. We have a talented team of staff who are ambitious to become outstanding in all areas of our work. We are in the process of forming a multi-academy trust and have applied to be a SCITT.   

 Ofsted Inspection January 2014: 'Teaching is good overall with outstanding features. Teaching is outstanding in the Sixth Form. Students of all abilities show high achievement in a wide range of subjects. Students are very attentive and behave well in lessons.'

If you would like to arrange a visit to see Tring School and see how ambitious we are, then please contact my PA, Mrs Anna Wiltshear awiltshear@tringschool.org. We have allocated two sessions for you to have a tour of the school and to meet some of the team. These will take place at 9am on Wednesday 25 January and Friday 27 January. If either of these times are not convenient for you, please let us know and we will do our best to meet your availability. 

If you are interested at the prospect of working in an environment where you can have real impact, and where exciting things are happening, then we welcome an application from you. 

Please complete the school’s application form and submit it along with a letter of application to Mrs Susanna Collings, Headteacher, by 9am on Tuesday 7 February 2017.  

Interviews will be held on Thursday 23 February and Friday 24 February 2017.     

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.