Assistant Headteacher
Worthing High School
West Sussex
- £56,578 - £62,426 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Pay Range Points 14-18
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2020
- Apply by:
- 12 March 2020
Job overview
ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER
Leadership Pay Range Points 14 - 18
Full-time required for September 2020
Due to the continued expansion of our school, the Governing Body and Trustees are seeking to appoint a dynamic leader with excellent interpersonal skills, a flair for innovation, drive and ambition to join a new post on the Senior Leadership Team of our forward thinking and rapidly expanding 11-16 school. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the further development of our school.
Specific responsibilities will be assigned to the successful candidate dependent upon individual strengths.
We are seeking a senior leader who:
• Is an excellent classroom practitioner
• Can lead and manage the work of others with vision, energy and sensitivity
• Has a commitment to improve teaching and learning and student outcomes
• Has the communication, interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence to motivate and inspire staff, students and key stakeholders.
We can offer you:
• The chance to work in an oversubscribed, innovative and forward thinking school
• Teaching at KS3 and KS4
• Effective support for Professional Development in preparation for your next step
• A friendly and supportive environment
• The opportunity to work with well-motivated students and supportive parents
• A location on the coast very close to main line railway services and road networks
• Free well-being and medical cover
• The opportunity to be part of the lead school in the South Downs Education Trust MAT.
When applying please provide, on 1 side of A4, evidence of a school initiative that you have led on and the impact it has had. Details required are: the initiative; the solution (what you actually did); and the impact (with evidence). This is in addition to your supporting statement, which must be no more than 2 sides of A4.
For further enquiries or to arrange a visit please contact Olivia Blake on 01903 237864.
Details of this role, including a job description, information on why you may wish to join us, how to apply and an application form can be downloaded from the school website at www.worthinghigh.net/vacancies or from the links in this advert.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 12 March 2020 by 10.00 am
A Long listing event will be held at 15.45pm until 17.30pm on Thursday 19 March 2020
Short listed applicants will be invited to a 2 day interview process on 25 and 26 March 2020
Completed applications should be sent to Mr P Panayiotou, Headteacher, at the above address or emailed to vacancies@worthinghigh.net
Attached documents
About Worthing High School
About us
Choosing the right school for either the first step in your career or as you progress is a vitally important decision. Worthing High School offers a good education experience for our students ensuring they feel happy, valued and secure. At Worthing High School we believe that we can offer all of these things.
Everyone at Worthing High works hard to create a close community of learners in which there is a clear focus upon raising standards of student achievement.
The school is greatly valued by the community it serves and is a popular choice for prospective students and their parents. A marked feature of the school is the happy, friendly, caring ethos which enables our students to settle quickly. We believe that this is vital if students are to achieve their full potential. As a school we have high standards for our students– maximum effort and excellent levels of achievement are expected.
Worthing High thrives on being a community in the true sense of the term as it seeks to achieve a partnership between governors, teachers, parents and students as well as with our wider partners.
Students also gain from an outstanding programme of enrichment activities that are extensive, fulfilling and diverse. The broad, balanced and relevant curriculum provided by the school serves to ensure that opportunities are available to enable pupils to fully develop their interests and talents.
Our website aims to introduce you to our school but there can be no substitute for a personal visit. We would be delighted to show you around during a working day and answer any questions that you may have.
Worthing High School is part of the South Downs Education Trust (SDET).
The Trust’s mission statement of ‘Always Pursuing Excellence’ is fundamental in achieving the high expectations of working together to ensure every child and young person is able to reach their true potential.
The Trust’s shared vision is focused around five core values: to work together and support each other as a community; to continually try to improve and develop resilience; to show integrity with honesty and truthfulness at all times; to show respect in valuing and accepting differences with courtesy and consideration; and to always pursue excellence and strive to surpass our shared expectations.
The Trust aims to contribute positively to a self-improving school-led system that improves process, reduces unnecessary complexity and duplication and spreads high standards so that all the schools within the Trust are ‘Good’ or better both in terms of their Ofsted judgement and in the eyes of its pupils, parents/carers and wider community.
OFSTED Report
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Ofsted&pid=15
Safeguarding Policy Documents
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Safeguarding&pid=55
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