Assistant Headteacher - Progress Leader and Pastoral Teams

Assistant Headteacher – Progress Leader and Pastoral Teams Salary: 

L16 - 20 Required for Autumn Term 2017  

This is an exciting opportunity to appoint an outstanding practitioner to join the senior leadership team. We are looking for an individual with a capacity to lead our excellent pastoral care teams through system change to effect even higher levels of progress.  

You will have a key responsibility in managing the welfare and raising achievement through the pastoral teams in Years 7-11. The senior roles are going through some readjustment after our successful Ofsted inspection. 

You will be expected to work seamlessly in this highly effective team -adding momentum to the existing cultural shift in the school: 

• safeguarding the welfare of our young people and improving their motivation 
• ensuring day-to-day pastoral work consistently conveys the cultural aspiration  
• use and develop existing data and QA systems to support improved practice 
• managing change and developing new practices within the pastoral teams  
• managing welfare matters with tact and efficiency 
• ensuring learners’ aspirations are continuously challenged and raised 
• supporting changes in students’ learning behaviours 
• challenging external provision which is not effective in reducing risk to our young people, when required. 

The successful applicant will: 

• be loyal, dedicated and ambitious for our students 
• have a genuine sense of vocation
• be utterly committed to achieving the highest standards 
• be unrelentingly positive and solution-focused 
• be able to consistently model the paradoxical relationship for all other pastoral staff – genuine care, uncompromising standards 
• be effective in evaluating the changes in their own practice which have led to consistently outstanding practice (including classroom practice) 
• comfortable with consistently, appropriate challenge to individuals and teams to improve performance 
• be effective in data analysis, quality assurance and developing  
• committed, reflective and resilient individual, ambitious for themselves and the school 

Contact Information: 

For information and an informal discussion about the post, please contact Mrs Cathy Thompson, PA to the Headteacher on 01202 662028, fax 01202 662039 or by email to c.thompson@poolehigh.poole.sch.uk for an application pack. 

Closing date: Monday 6 March 2017 (9.00am) 

Completed applications should be sent to Mrs Cathy Thompson. 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Post subject to Disclosure Barring Service Enhanced Disclosure. Poole High School is an equal opportunities employer.