Assistant Headteacher
Tuke School
Southwark
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- Expired
- Salary:
- L16-20 (£65,493- £71,365) depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 30 April 2019
Job overview
Tuke School is an outstanding special school. Our school provides specialist facilities for students with severe, profound and complex learning needs.
Due to changes within our leadership team, we are looking to appoint a creative, dynamic and passionate staff member to join our senior leadership team.
Following our short Ofsted inspection, we “continue to provide outstanding provision”
Are you a confident and inspiring leader?
Do you have:
Excellent leadership, organisational and management skills
An ability to build on success, inspire and motivate students and staff to further improve outcomes
Commitment and ambition for school improvement
An ability to self-manage, self-evaluate and self-improve
Experience of leading teams of staff
Talent to think creatively and imaginatively, anticipating and solving issues as they arise
An ability to encourage constructive relationships between all members of the school community, promoting equality of opportunity
Effective interpersonal and communication skills
Experience of supporting learning assessment, recording and monitoring of evidence of progression
Experience of coaching a developing staff
Particular interest in using ICT to support the school curriculum and develop innovative strategies to celebrate school successes using technology.
We can offer you an opportunity to join:
Senior leaders & Governors who are highly effective; implementing continual improvement, demonstrated by our 3 times ‘outstanding’ OFSTED grading
A dedicated and motivated staff team who understand and meet student needs.
A school environment that is focused on outstanding achievement in education.
Excellent staff facilities in a purpose built school.
We strongly recommend and invite all interested candidates to come along to visit us, meet staff and students, ask questions and tour our fantastic facilities. Please contact our school office: 020 7525 8002 to make the necessary arrangements
Tuke School, Daniel Gardens, SE15 6ER. Nearest over ground station: Peckham Rye. Nearest tube station –Elephant and Castle. Buses 63/363. Parking available.
Please download an application pack
Closing date for application 30th April 2019
Interviews on 7th May 2019
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted with an interview time and date. If you are shortlisted, we will request references prior to the interview.
Southwark LA and Tuke school governing body are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and well-being of children and young people. This post is subject to enhanced disclosure procedures.
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About Tuke School
Welcome to Tuke Schools dedicated careers page where you can find out what makes us an amazing place to work as well as viewing and applying for our latest vacancies.
History and Ethos
Tuke school is a welcoming and inspirational place to learn and work. We have been judged ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted at our last three inspection cycles. Our purpose built school has been open for 6 years and continues to be an exciting place for students and staff. Tuke school is all on one level and gives great access to the outdoor spaces. Our school has many sensory aspects to the design to enable students to engage with their learning at every opportunity. It is an essential part of our ethos that the curriculum and every part of the building is easily accessible to all. We aspire to be a centre of educational excellence for students with severe and complex learning needs, an exceptional place to work and learn for students and staff, a school that encourages creativity, challenge and self motivation and a place where learning will be enhanced and enabled through an inclusive approach.
Location
Tuke school is on Daniel Gardens, Peckham. We are within walking distance from Peckham Rye station and there are several bus routes that serve the area local to the school. The school is also communtable by car and we have staff parking facilities on site. We are on the doorstep of Burgess park, which offers 460,000 square metres of open space, with social spaces to include: picnic areas, cycle track, tennis courts, walking paths, Chumleigh gardens and cafe. It is within walking distance making it accessible for lunchtime walks or talking lunch. We also have the benefit of having fantastic transport links and being very accessible to central London with its numerous attractions, restaurants and sporting facilities.
Our School
At the heart of our curriculum is our mission statement: “Learning Everywhere, Inspiring Everyone’.
Our school provides state of the art specialist facilities for students with Severe, Profound and Complex Learning needs. Our facilities include a hydro therapy suite , art and design areas, food technology rooms, a space dedicated to physical exploration, music studio, a sensory trail and interactive lighting and touch screen ICT. We provide training to enable staff to use all of the school facilities.
At Tuke, we have developed our own curriculum framework which brings together Education Health and Care plan outcomes, curriculum schemes of work, learning intentions and a systematic way of monitoring student personal progress. Our students are unique in the way that they learn; they may experience difficulties with generalisation, memory retention, communication, problem solving, managing change, transitions and processing skills. It is our aim to minimise barriers by creating learning opportunities that are purposeful and meaningful to each individual. We have small class groups between 6-8 students. Each class will have 3 or 4 support assistants in each class who are directly managed by the class teacher. Our therapy staff work alongside educational staff to ensure that specific learning programmes are intergrated.
Professional development
We are proud of our staff team. It is their skill, determination and motivation to provide the best education for all, that is the key to our success. We embrace teachers with a varying degree of experience and skills. Our induction programme is thorough and we are able to provide ongoing coaching and monitoring to further improve teaching and learning. We have leadership development opporunities that will be offered to teachers to enhance and sustain high quality leadership skills within our school. Our staff work preperation and social are great too, with a comfortable staff room and a garden area for staff.
To support our staff team we are can offer childcare vouchers and cycle to work schemes, options for part time and full time roles, development opportunities and worklife support through an employee assistance programme.
It is our commitment to working together that ensures we are able to achieve the best possible outcomes for the young people at Tuke.
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