Deputy Headteacher
Melbourn Primary School
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale: L10 – L14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 25 April 2018
Job overview
Our well loved Deputy Headteacher is moving on to headship. The governors are seeking to restructure the Strategic Leadership Team to now include a new Deputy Headteacher and Assistant Headteacher to support our Headteacher in the continued strive for excellence of our school. This is an exciting time to join us as we grow to two form entry; it is a great opportunity to help us shape our future.
We are seeking to employ an exceptional and inspirational Deputy Headteacher, who places children at the centre of their practice, to work in partnership with the Headteacher and Strategic Leadership Team. This is a key post to accelerate pupil progress of our vulnerable groups and to ensure that all our pupils have the best possible school experience.
This post is non-class based, although will include some teaching commitment.
The successful candidate will ideally have experience of:
- Creative and successful teaching, preferably in more than one key stage
- Inspiring and leading colleagues in raising standards
- Leading a core subject such as English or mathematics
- Taking responsibility for a significant area of school improvement
- Responding to the various ways children express their emotions
- Working effectively in partnership with families, governors and staff
- Generating ideas and seeing them into fruition.
In return we can offer you:
- A friendly and proactive staff team committed to raising standards
- Fun and hardworking children
- Customised CPD around your areas for development
- An exciting opportunity to be part of a new strategic leadership team.
We encourage visits to our school prior to application to meet our staff and children and to see us in action.
Please contact the school office on 01763 223457, email office@melbourn.cambs.sch.uk to arrange a visit or discuss the post further. Full information including the job description, job specification and application form can be found on our website www.melbournprimaryschool.org.uk.
Closing date for applications and short listing is 11am on Thursday 26th April 2018
Teaching observations Monday 30th April or Tuesday 1st May
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Melbourn Primary School is committed to the protection and safety of all its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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About Melbourn Primary School
- Melbourn Primary School
- Mortlock Street, Melbourn, Royston
- Hertfordshire
- SG8 6DB
- United Kingdom
ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
Melbourn Primary School is a co-educational primary school catering for children from age 4 years to 11 years. The school has origins in Melbourn going back to 1818. The "old building" has a foundation stone dated 1855, the remaining parts of the school being added in the 1970s and 1980s. We are fortunate that we have just been given funding for some redevelopment of the school. We will have a new hall, kitchen and entrance to the school. We will also welcome onto the school site a Children’s Centre and pre-school facility.
Melbourn is situated in South Cambridgeshire, 2 miles north of Royston, 10 miles south of Cambridge and is by-passed by the A10. It is a lively, thriving village and home to over 4400 inhabitants.
The community is mixed. Many of our parents have moved into the village to work locally or commute to London. Others are ex-pupils themselves. The appearance of the village is also mixed. Whilst you can still see how the village appeared at the turn of the century before a fire swept through the centre of the village, you will also see that we now have a lot of modern housing. Indeed, development continues and the school is seeing an increase in pupil numbers.
For more information on Melbourn, visit www.melbourncambridge.co.uk
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