Deputy Headteacher
Southlands High School
Chorley, Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Deputy Headteacher L18-L22 £64,143 - £70,745
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 18.04.2022
- Apply by:
- 7 February 2022
Job overview
We are looking for a Deputy Headteacher to join the leadership team who will add great value, expertise and passion for school improvement at Southlands and further across the Trust. This is an exciting time to be joining the school and your contribution will be critical. This Deputy Headteacher post presents an opportunity for a professional with drive, energy and dedication and gives a mandate for someone who wants to make a real difference to the lives of our students, the broader community and the Trust’s academies.
You will:
· Be either an experienced Deputy Headteacher/Vice Principal seeking new challenges or an ambitious Assistant Headteacher/Assistant Principal with a proven track record of strong leadership
· Assist the Headteacher, and our other Deputy Headteacher, in building on recent improvements and continue to move the school forward
· Support our school’s values of respect and a strong work ethic to ‘Endeavour for Excellence’ and be confident in living these values through your work
· Be a key player in delivering the school’s vision: ‘to be a strong and loyal community in which every student and every member of staff is supported to achieve their very best and reach their fullest potential’
· Be looking to lead and teach in a professional environment with a truly comprehensive intake
· Be an outstanding classroom practitioner
· Have a mandate to shape the future path for the school, with the Trustees, Senior Leadership Team, Governing Body and middle leaders.
Candidates wishing to visit the school can contact Casandra Taylor, the PA to the Headteacher/Office Manager, who will arrange a suitable time: 01257 414455. The Headteacher, Paul Bousfield, is also available for a telephone discussion should you wish to call to discuss any aspects of the role or Southlands High School.
Application process:
To apply, please download an application form, and return it to Caroline Mears, HR Officer, by email: recruitment@southlands.lancs.sch.uk
Advertising date: Monday 17th January 2022
Closing date: Monday 7th February 2022 (12 noon)
Short listing: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Interview dates: Tuesday 22nd February and Wednesday 23rd February 2022
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About Southlands High School
Southlands High School is an improving school. Our motto ‘Endeavour for Excellence’ demonstrates that we expect all stakeholders, staff and students to drive for the highest standards in everything they do. Southlands High School is striving to be ‘Better’ than ever before as a successful and inclusive school that works in close partnership with families and the community to achieve the best for our young people.
In December 2017, we were designated as a converter academy within the Mosaic Academy Trust with Standish High School and Golborne Primary School and look forward to going from strength to strength in our partnership. The Mosaic Academy Trust as an organisation seeks to value each and every member of the community and to become a family of schools that will welcome other schools and be a Trust whose chief aim is to become stronger as a whole than by the sum of its parts. We seek for our students to be Successful Learners, Confident Individuals and Responsible Citizens. The Trust has a Trade Union Recognition Agreement in place.
From our most recent inspection, in February 2024, the report highlights that we are highly ambitious for our pupils to achieve. We strive to meet the needs of the individual child so that they feel safe, secure and happy and enjoy their time at Southlands. We also aim to provide the highest standards of teaching and learning so that students are able to progress and fulfil their potential. We believe that every child should be given opportunities to develop their leadership skills as part of their growth and development in order to prepare them for adult life. Many of our students go on to be very successful in all aspects of life with a number attending some of the leading universities in the country. We are committed in our drive for academic excellence whilst offering a wide range of extra-curricular activities and opportunities so that our students can achieve educational success and develop fully as individuals.
We recognise that all students have the right to the highest quality education that will equip them with the qualifications they need to progress to college, university or their chosen career. Every decision we take to create our successful school comes from a firmly held staff belief that we can always strive to be ‘better’ than before.
At Southlands we are very proud of our caring school community and place great emphasis on high standards of behaviour and respect for all through our Southlands Standard.
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