Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning
Notre Dame School
Plymouth
- £52,723 - £58,135 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- L10 - L14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 15 March 2021
Job overview
Plymouth CAST is seeking to appoint an outstanding, enthusiastic and dedicated individual to who will embrace our ethos and join the Senior Leadership Team working across Notre Dame Plymouth and St Boniface’s College to lead on Teaching and Learning.
The successful applicant for this newly created post will:
• have proven leadership skills which inspire respect and commitment and evidence previous success in delivering transformational change
• have relevant experience of raising standards in Teaching and Learning and delivering improvements
• have the ability to lead others to achieve high standards of Teaching and Learning and develop excellence within their practice
• be a talented and skilled communicator who can adapt and respond positively to the changing educational environment
• be able to use data to monitor progress, set targets, raise standards and challenge performance
• be a passionate teacher who leads by example and is committed to high expectations
• ensure that every student is valued and supported to achieve the very best that they can
The successful applicant will be responsible for:
• Raising standards in Teaching & Learning and delivering improvements using both informal and formal processes for secondary schools in Plymouth CAST
• Line managing Faculty Leaders, driving improvements to maximising educational outcomes for all students and supporting professional development of leaders
• Leading and co-ordinating the delivery of our CPD programme for secondary school teaching staff
• Mentoring NQTs and ITTs, to include managing placements, facilitating and delivering of CPD ensuring statutory requirements are met e.g. NQT Induction
• Developing, implementing and delivering a new programme of learning and development for RQTs
• Leading teacher appraisal/performance management processes, to include deriving best value from the digital appraisal platform BlueSky across both schools
• Leading teacher Induction processes to successful onboard new teachers into both schools
• Establishing an ICT development group to maximise ICT integration into learning and across both schools and to drive digital improvements and maximise teaching and learning outcomes for students
As part of our Senior Leadership Team you will contribute to shaping the School Improvement Plan and share responsibility for day-to-day management of our schools. You will also hold a teaching timetable of 20 hours per fortnight.
We offer:
• a caring, inclusive, and cohesive community built on strong supportive relationships and traditional Christian values
• supportive governors who are passionate about our schools
• well-motivated, confident and happy students who are proud of their school
• staff who go the extra mile to make us the schools that we are
We encourage interested candidates to contact Mrs Kate White, Executive Headteacher, to have an informal chat to find out more about the role prior to applying. In the first instance, please call: 01752 775101
Closing date: Monday 15th March 2021, 9am
Interviews: Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st March 2021
To apply, please use the application on this site.
For more information about St Boniface's College and Notre Dame, please see our vacancies page at: www.ndonline.org and www.stbonifaces.com and www.plymouthcast.org.uk
The school operates a Safeguarding Children Recruitment Policy and is committed to promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS disclosure.
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About Notre Dame School
Thank you for taking an interest in Notre Dame School and St Boniface's College. Our schools have a proud tradition dating back to the 19th Century, and we preserve a distinctive approach to education of the whole child.
As Catholic schools we are open to those of all faiths and none, and we offer single sex faith-based education for students from all over Plymouth, with students also joining our schools from Cornwall and West Devon. Girls attend Notre Dame School, and boys attend St Boniface's College. We have a joint Sixth Form that operates principally from Notre Dame.
We place great emphasis on success in its broadest sense, believing that paying attention to the culture in which young people learn is the key to happy and successful students, and staff who enjoy and are fulfilled in their work.
Our curriculum sets out to form students ready for life, not just for the workplace. We recognise that teachers must be supported in bringing their passion and creativity to learning, and that all staff play a part in the formation of the young. We take seriously our mission to send young adults out into the world to make future society a better society. We always seek to recruit people who instinctively want this too, people who have a vision of education that serves the needs of tomorrow, not merely performance frameworks. Through a range of courses and qualifications from key stages 3 to 5 we constantly seek to build a learning experience that engages and inspires, paying as much attention to the super-curriculum as we do to formal taught studies.
Catholic education is a gift to the world, with a concern for social justice, a fairer society, and attention to formation of the person as a unique creation. Whether you are Catholic or not, you will be welcomed to play your part in helping us to build such a vision and model of education. We believe in investing strongly in professional formation, and creating professional opportunities, knowing that every person who works with us has their own aspirations, and seeks fulfilment in their role.
We want you to enjoy working at Notre Dame School and St. Boniface's College. Our staff consider the sense of community and the motivation of students as our schools’ greatest strengths. Our visitors tell us that they are struck by the friendliness of our students and colleagues, the quality of our learning environment and the ethos of the schools.
If you’d like to find out more, we’d love to hear from you and to show you around!
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