Assistant Headteacher
Furzedown Primary School
Wandsworth
- £58,500 - £63,745 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Pay Scale L3-L7
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 24 April 2024
Job overview
We are looking for an outstanding teacher who is ambitious, dynamic and maintains a passion for continual development to join our Senior Leadership Team. At Furzedown we are committed to ensuring every child achieves holistically and leaves us as good, active citizens prepared for the next stage of their education and beyond!
We believe in the intrinsic worth of every individual and that there is nothing the children and adults in our community cannot achieve.
We are committed to:
- Happiness with the state of well-being and contentment underpinning all we do
- Inclusion and promoting equity leading to equality of opportunity across all areas of school life including our curriculum and in all of our policies and practice
- Behaving respectfully with everyone we meet
- Having ambition and communicating our high expectations clearly to each other
- Being creative and reflective impacting on our ability to be open-minded and to problem-solve
- Working together as a community and to help everyone achieve their best
If you have a proven track record of engaging and inspiring both pupils and colleagues alike and are interested in joining an agile and innovative school community then we would welcome an application from you.
Visits to the school are strongly recommended!
We are seeking to appoint an exceptional and inspiring Assistant Headteacher with primary responsibility for Behaviour, Wellbeing and Personal Development.
We can offer:
- A passionate, skilled and focused leadership team who work together to drive school improvement
- A dedicated, hardworking, knowledgeable and committed staff team
- Excellent career advancement continuing professional development opportunities
- Happy, confident, polite and engaged children with a great enthusiasm for learning
- Supportive parents and governors committed to our school ethos
You will have experience of:
- Setting and demonstrating high expectations
- Being an outstanding practitioner who is an influencer
- High quality relationships with staff, pupils and parents
- Establishing and sustaining high-quality teaching across subjects and phases
- Working effectively with stakeholders and external professionals
- Developing and implementing school improvement strategies
- Making a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of a school.
An information pack, including a Job Description and Person Specification can be downloaded below or from the Wandsworth Council website https://jobs.richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk/
Completed applications are to be returned to recruitment@furzedown.wandsworth.sch.uk
Application Closing Date: Wednesday 24th April 2024
Interview Date: Week beginning 29th April 2024
Furzedown is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS clearance.
Attached documents
About Furzedown Primary School
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Location
Furzedown Primary School is located in Tooting (Zone 3), South West London.
The School is easily accessible from Underground stations Tooting Bec and Broadway as well as national rail stations Streatham, Streatham Common & Tooting.
The School has free, on site car parking facilities and is a short drive from the A23.
Located so closely to Central London, the Furzedown community has access to its numerous benefits which include but are not limited to theatres, sporting events, music arenas, shopping, bars and restaurants as well as London's outdoor parks.
South West London itself has numerous outdoor spaces for people to exercise and focus on their health and fitness. Short commutable distances from Tooting include Wimbledon - home of grass court tennis, Clapham with its outdoor scene and common and Richmond with access to the River Thames, Richmond Park and Twickenham Stadium.
Commutable transport hubs include Clapham Junction Station with direct links to Central London as well as to Southern parts of England. Commutable destinations within an hour include the seaside town of Brighton.
Benefits
As a Wandsworth Local Authority School all teaching and leadership staff will benefit from:
- A comprehensive induction
- State of the art Professional Development Centre
- Award winning curriculum support and professional development library
- At least five INSET days per year
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Access to affordable housing schemes
- Reduced membership rates at local health clubs
Headteachers are supported through an effective induction plan and are supported through key personnel across the LA including the School Link Inspector.
Members of staff at Furzedown have the opportunity to join the annual 'school journey' which involves staff and pupils travelling to a different part of the UK. In recent years the School Journey has ventured to Borth in West Wales. All of our classrooms at Furzedown open into the outdoors. We love spending time outside the classroom as part of our day to day learning and on school trips.
Continuous Professional Development
With the support of the Governing Body, all members of staff are encouraged and supported with their individual continuous professional development. Training and professional courses are available where applicable.
School Community
Furzedown is blessed with an amazing school community that places learning, wellbeing and global citizenship at the heart of its ethos. Both staff and students work in a safe and inclusive environment and the school is well supported by the Parent Teacher Association. We are a broad curriculum School, we place a big emphasis on the Arts with an amazing purpose built Art room and have access to local Sports facilities to promote health and well being.
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