Deputy Headteacher: Pastoral
Horsforth School
Leeds, West Yorkshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary Range L20– L24
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for September 2018
- Apply by:
- 3 May 2018
Job overview
At Horsforth School we believe in ‘opportunity and achievement for all’, are committed to the highest outcomes for students and to develop the best opportunities for staff. We are committed to being a ‘Greenhouse School’.
The Trustees are seeking to appoint a highly skilled, inspiring and forward thinking colleague to lead the pastoral wellbeing and behaviour of Horsforth School students and drive forward our whole school vision.
You will be/have:
- An excellent practitioner with high expectations of students.
- An exceptional motivator.
- Adaptable.
- An innovator passionate about school improvement.
- Energetic, enthusiastic and have a sense of humour.
- An excellent communicator.
- A track record of impact in the pastoral field.
Challenges for the future include:
- To maintain and improve our already outstanding behaviour and pastoral support.
- To improve the scope and quality of our already outstanding leaver outcomes.
- To further close gaps to ensure opportunity and achievement for all.
- Continue to explore and develop innovative and transformational learning and teaching.
- To further engage students, parents and carers in the work of our school.
Horsforth School is:
- Proud to have examination results well above national averages.
- Very heavily over-subscribed.
- A Greenhouse School.
- Judged to have a calm learning environment where student behaviour is ‘exemplary’ and parent / carers are very supportive.
- A highly supportive, experienced and ambitious Governing Body.
Horsforth School welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. All appointments will be subject to a successful DBS check. Further details about the school and the post may be obtained from the school website, www.horsforthschool.org or by emailing Miss L Robinson, recruitment@horsforthschool.org. Horsforth School is committed to the safety and protection of its students.
Applications, by letter and application form, including names and addresses of two referees, should be emailed to Miss L Robinson, recruitment@horsforthschool.org
The closing date is 12 noon on 04th May 2018
Interviews will take place w/c 7th May 2018
Attached documents
About Horsforth School
At Horsforth School we believe in ‘opportunity and achievement for all’, are committed to the highest outcomes for students and to develop the best opportunities for staff.
For our 1500 students, Horsforth School provides an engaging environment of discovery and growth. For our colleagues too, this setting offers some great benefits. Located in north-west Leeds, the school is just five miles from the city centre with its thriving retail, leisure and cultural facilities, yet on the edge of open countryside. York, Harrogate and the Dales are within easy reach.
GCSE and A Level results are consistently well above the national averages and in both 2022 and 2023 the school had the best A Level results in the whole of Leeds. Horsforth School was also named one of the top schools in Yorkshire in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide in 2022.
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