Deputy Headteacher: Pastoral and Safeguarding Lead
St Clement Danes School
Hertfordshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Pay Scale: L19 to L23
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 1 May 2024
Job overview
DEPUTY HEADTEACHER: PASTORAL AND SAFEGUARDING LEAD
ST CLEMENT DANES SCHOOL
Full-time
Leadership Pay Scale: L19 to L23
Required from September 2024
We are seeking a talented, positive and forward-thinking Deputy Headteacher to lead Pastoral and Safeguarding at the school. Our successful candidate will offer creativity and imagination with the ability to motivate, challenge and inspire staff and students; combining professional integrity with high expectations of themselves and others.
We can offer:
- Talented students and staff
- A competitive salary: a five-point scale from L19-23 (Fringe Area)
- A positive working environment within an extremely well-resourced school
- The support of a highly professional and committed staff team and the opportunity to expand your professional networks beyond the Trust through our external partnerships
- The opportunity to develop your career within an expanding multi academy trust with a track record of excellent student attainment and achievement
- Exceptional professional development opportunities
- A low teaching load
- Admission arrangements favourable to children of staff
We would like you to have:
Qualifications
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Evidence of continuing and recent professional development relevant to senior leadership
Knowledge & Experience
- Substantial and successful track record of teaching 11 to 18 including A Level
- A proven track record in whole school leadership or the leadership of a large department/team
- Experience of leading significant school improvement
- Understanding of current educational issues
- Understanding of effective pedagogy
- Understanding of how data can be used to drive up standards through intelligent intervention programmes
Personal qualities
- Passion for education in its widest sense
- Drive, sense of purpose, commitment and perseverance
- Well-developed emotional intelligence
- Excellent interpersonal and persuasive skills
- Flexibility and sensitivity to the needs of individuals
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both oral and written
- Enthusiasm, common sense and good humour
- Willingness to reflect on and evaluate performance within the context of a team
- Outstanding classroom practitioner who inspires and is respected by students
- High levels of resilience and optimism
- A natural aptitude to model the Trust’s core behaviours – ‘We display transparency, kindness and respect in all our interactions with others, and support each other in all our endeavours. We are tenacious in our desire to make the difference together’.
Leadership
- Ability to lead by example, take responsibility and to be accountable
- Ability to inspire others to follow through strong communication skills, good influencing skills and clear thinking.
- Ability to hold people to account effectively
- Proven solution-provider
- Intellectual curiosity
The Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Tours of the School Site
We have arranged an opportunity for prospective candidates to tour the school on Friday 26 April from 11.30 - 12.30pm or 1.30pm onwards.
To book onto this tour, please contact Vandana Saluja, (HR Coordinator) at vsaluja@scd.herts.sch.uk
How to make an application:
- Please read the attached Appointment Brief before completing your application.
- To apply, please visit the My New Term Website and Complete Application Form - Job Reference 12883, using the Supporting Statement section of the form to detail your suitability for the role, your motivation for making an application and how your knowledge, experience and training meet the person specification.
- The vacancy closes at 9.00am on Wednesday 1 May 2024, however, early application is advised as we reserve the right to close the advert early should a suitable applicant be found.
- Interviews will take place across two days: Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May 2024
- If you have any questions or would like to discuss this role further, please contact recruitment@danesedtrust.org.uk
Website: www.stclementdanes.org.uk / www.daneseducationaltrust.org.uk
School Address: Chenies Road, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire WD3 6EW
E-mail: recruitment@danesedtrust.org.uk
Danes Educational Trust Address: C/o St Clement Danes School, Chenies Road, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire WD3 6EW
Attached documents
About St Clement Danes School
- St Clement Danes School
- Chenies Road, Chorley Wood, Rickmansworth
- Hertfordshire
- WD3 6EW
- United Kingdom
Thank you for your interest in St Clement Danes School.
This is an extremely exciting time to join St Clement Danes School and the wider Danes Educational Trust family of schools. St Clement Danes has reached the end of a £9 million expansion programme including new Art, Maths, Science, Technology, LRC, PE and Sports facilities as well as significant investment in pastoral provision. This expansion, allied with the beautiful setting in 47 acres in the Chilterns, an area of outstanding natural beauty, ensures both students and staff experience a first-class learning environment.
With over 1000 applicants for 240 places annually, St Clement Danes School is a popular local choice. It is partially selective, allocating 10% of places based on musical aptitude and 10% on the basis of an academic test. When last visited by Ofsted, on 26 and 27 March 2024 His Majesty’s Inspectors found St Clement Danes to be an ‘Outstanding’ school, retaining the grading awarded at the last inspection in 2011. They went on to praise the school and award ‘Outstanding’ judgements for each of the five areas they looked at: Quality of education; Behaviour and attitudes; Sixth-form provision; Personal development and Leadership and management.
The inspectors recognised that “Pupils are highly respectful of one another…Behaviour in lessons and around the school is exceptionally good. Pupils know how their behaviour can influence others. As a result, they choose to hold themselves to the highest standards of conduct.”
Our aim as a school has always been to enable every one of our students to grow into responsible and fulfilled adults with the skills, qualifications and confidence to shape their futures. This was recognised by the inspectors. “The school has placed equal value on developing pupils’ character alongside subject expertise. Not constrained by the limits of exam requirements, the result is a highly ambitious curriculum. Pupils can develop a rich and deep understanding of the world around them.”
St Clement Danes is a wonderful blend of tradition and adaptation. We are relentless in the pursuit of excellence in everything we do for students, staff and the wider community. The key drivers that underpin our vision at St Clement Danes are success for all, character development for all and dignity for all.
St Clement Danes believes diversity makes our school stronger which is why we are a proud equal opportunities employer and encourage all of our staff to bring their authentic selves to work. We believe in fairness in the workplace and we encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the school. We celebrate diversity so that different cultures can thrive, adding to the richness and experience of our community.
We look for talented and committed people and work hard to keep them, helping them to reach their full potential. In return, we offer an exceptional CPDL programme within the Trust and the opportunity to share best practice within and beyond St Clement Danes and the Trust through our leadership of the St Clement Danes Challenge Partners Hub, and the regional leadership of the Science Learning partnership and Computer Hub.
I want St Clement Danes School to continue as a school that is outstanding and a central part of the local community. If you share our commitment to the development of every child’s intelligence and character, we want to hear from you. If you choose to apply for a job with the Trust, you will join a happy, successful team whilst making a wise investment in your future career.
If you would like to organise a visit to the school or if you would like to discuss any position in more detail then please contact the Recruitment Team at
recruitment@danesedtrust.org.uk.
Mr Toby Sutherland
Headteacher
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