Assistant Headteacher, Student Support, KS3

ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER, STUDENT SUPPORT, KS3

(Outer London pay scale)

For January 2023 start

 L15 – L19 (£62,927 - £69,087)

The Assistant Headteacher KS3 is a key post in the school. The successful candidate will play an important role in whole school decision making as part of the Senior Leadership Team, as well as taking the lead in student support for students in Years 7 to 9, reporting to the Deputy Headteacher Student Support and directly to the Headteacher.

 The successful candidate will:

●      be an excellent teacher

●      have a leadership track record of sustained success

●      have high emotional intelligence

●      be able to make their mark as part of a strong Senior Team

●      have the potential for further career development.

 As a diverse and inclusive school we are committed to equality of opportunity for all of our staff. We are always keen to increase diversity and are particularly keen to increase the diversity of the Senior Team. We would therefore very much welcome strong applications from colleagues who would represent our diverse school community; please click on the link below for further information about this. Applications from all individuals are encouraged, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, ethnicity, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.    

Please click to view the Nower Hill High School Equality-Information-and-Objectives-2021-22

 Nower Hill is a happy school in which individuals are cared for and valued. We are highly successful but very ambitious for further success. Students are a pleasure to work with, staff are very high calibre with a strong team spirit and high morale and governors and parents/carers are extremely supportive. We are proud of our successes and achievements, but we are never complacent. What we promise the children and their parents is our complete determination to ensure that Nower Hill continues to go from strength to strength, continues to stretch and challenge every student and continues to provide a centre of all-round excellence at the heart of our community.

 Real and meaningful professional development is at the heart of what we do at Nower Hill. We have a very powerful portfolio of in house CPD programmes, which the successful candidate will help to lead. We are looking to appoint a colleague with the potential, capacity and ambition for further professional growth / career development. The successful candidate will be part of a Senior Leadership Team that has produced eight deputy Headteachers and four Headteachers in the last six years alone.

For further information about this key post in this highly successful, oversubscribed, “outstanding” (Ofsted 2012) school, please visit our website: http://www.nowerhill.org.uk/661/teaching-staff-vacancies

 Potential candidates who wish to visit (before the closing date) or have an informal conversation with the Headteacher, Louise Voden, should contact Nicola Edwards, Executive Assistant on 020 8424 0003 or e-mail to edwards.nicola@nowerhill.harrow.sch.uk

Closing date: 9am Friday 7th October 2022

Interview Date: Friday 14th October 2022

Nower Hill High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon an enhanced criminal record check with the Disclosure and Barring Service; a prohibition from teaching check (teachers only); satisfactory references; the right to work in the UK; and a satisfactory health check.