Assistant Headteacher: Quality of Education

Step into Phoenix Primary School and you will feel a haven of warmth and a true sense of community, halls filled with children enjoying their day, staff with a great sense of humour, a leadership team that places importance on family and professional trust. A team that faces the next steps of each journey with resilience, kindness and compassion. A team that supports the children and their families through so much more than their educational journey. We ask that you do not judge a book by its cover. Look beyond and you will discover the exciting opportunities that Phoenix Primary School has to offer

This post comes at an exhilarating time with the school becoming a Centre of Excellence, Character Education School and continuing our journey as a VBE school. We are also finishing our journey with The National Behaviour Hubs and looking to become a lead school in the near future. We are passionate about developing ethical vocabulary and ethical intelligence, which could be argued is the most important intelligence for the sustainability of our world, enabling Phoenix children to be educated citizens, helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.

As VbE underpins everything we do, we have carefully designed a relevant curriculum driven by excellence, which prepares the pupils for the world in which they will live and work. Through our curriculum, we aim to provide the pupils with the knowledge, skills, habits and character traits that can be applied across all traditional academic subject areas an in all educational, career and social settings throughout their life.

We provide rich opportunities for the pupils to explore citizenship and real-life issues, which at times they may have to grapple with and make sense of, working together to develop ‘real life’ values such as collaboration and communication, respect, justice, courage, compassion and forgiveness. As these values and skills shape the way that we live together and our response to the issues that we will encounter through our global curriculum.

We are looking for a passionate, driven and committed Assistant Head (Quality of Education) to join our successful senior leadership team. This is a crucial role where you will work closely with the Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher, Governors and extended leadership team to shape the future of the school. This position which may suit an experienced Phase Leader or Head of Department and may be excellent preparation for Deputy Headship. The post holder will be line managed by the Head. The successful candidate will, in turn, be line managing Subject Leaders and other Middle Leaders. This is a permanent position which will include a 0.5 teaching commitment.