Deputy Headteacher - SEND
Lime Academy Forest Approach
Havering
- £66,073 - £72,542 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 16 April 2023
Job overview
Deputy Headteacher – SEND
Lime Trust is looking for an experienced, passionate, and innovative Deputy Headteacher to join Lime Academy Forest Approach, a special school in the London Borough of Havering for children aged 4-19.
This is a fantastic and rewarding opportunity to work as part of the leadership team to drive school improvement, promote best practice, and contribute to the aims and ethos of the Trust. We are looking for an inspiring leader, as well as an outstanding practitioner who can motivate, manage, and build effective teams specifically within SEND.
You should share our values and be passionate about creating an environment that supports personalised learning and that prepares our pupils for the next stage in their life.
We are looking for a Deputy Headteacher who can demonstrate:
- Leadership and management of SEND to develop paedology, curriculum, and delivery of strategies
- A proven track record of good school improvement
- Excellent leadership, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Excellent classroom practice, effectively meeting individual needs
- The desire and experience to take a lead role within one of our schools
- Ability to provide pupils with the excitement of a relevant, challenging and creative curriculum that raises standards of education for all
- A clear understanding of the SEND Code of Practice and experience of working with children with a range of complex needs
- A commitment to ensuring all pupils achieve their full potential and to set high expectations for every child and ensure all pupils achieve these standards
- High expectations of themselves and others
- Experience of leading change and improvement across a school
We are looking forward to hearing from candidates who have ambitions for a leadership role and are ready for a post that has a high level of challenge and reward. You will be part of an excellent team and will be given support to develop to your full potential both in this role and beyond.
Salary: Leadership range L15-L19
Why Lime?
Lime Trust consists of eight schools, including four Special and four Primary across Cambridgeshire and Northeast London. The selected candidate will be based within the London hub (incorporating one primary and three special schools).
Lime Trust is founded upon four principles: leadership, innovation, motivation and excellence. Its vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration and Trust direction, high challenge and high support. All schools in the Trust strive to improve life chances for all and be respected in their local communities.
The Values we embed in our schools are:
- Respect
- Equity
- Self-worth
- Partnership
- Enjoyment
- Communication (a voice for all)
- Trust
Everyone who makes up our school community upholds and promotes the values of the Trust and fully embodies the Lime Way: Always working to be brilliant; putting learners first; setting the standard; and building capacity-rich schools. Together, we will improve the life chances for all our children and equip them with the skills to become confident individuals, successful learners and responsible citizens.
Trust benefits:
The Trust provides a strong culture of collaboration, support, and development, together with high expectations for staff and pupils alike. Benefits include:
- IT equipment (relevant to the post)
- Well-being support including online resources/app/initiatives
- Extensive CPD opportunities, including support with external courses for further career development
- Enhanced maternity leave benefits
- Membership of a generous pension scheme (LGPS or TPS)
- National pay rates
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working opportunities
- Job-sharing/Part-time working
- Term-time working
- Career break
- Supportive Special Leave requests
- Subsidised school meals
- Subsidised childcare (offered on some sites)
- PPA can take place working from home
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 16 April 2023 at 12 Noon
Shortlisting: 17 April 2023
Interviews: 26 April 2023
Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact Rachael Holland, Director of Education by telephone 07821303581 or email Rachael.Holland@limetrust.org to arrange this.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check)
Attached documents
About Lime Academy Forest Approach
- Lime Academy Forest Approach
- Settle Road, Harold Hill, Romford
- Essex
- RM3 9YA
- United Kingdom
Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure:
· Learners are safe and enjoy learning
· Everyone feels included, respected, and valued
· An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood
· Employee potential is recognised and invested in
Putting Learners First is the Trust’s vision. We do this by providing high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do
LIME Trust Vision & Values
Putting Learners First is our Trust vision.
We aim to create a nurturing and supportive learning environment for all, encouraging our learners to achieve academic excellence and reach their full potential. We set high expectations and build capacity-rich schools through facilitating school-to-school collaboration. The high challenge we put forward is met with equally high support from our team of education experts, so we continue to improve our children’s lives and futures – especially for disadvantaged pupils.
Our values are based on R.E.S.P.E.C.T. which means we believe that:
Respect is built on unconditional positive regard for all learners, all employees, and our wider communities.
Equity enables everyone to be treated as individuals. It removes barriers, provides opportunity and celebrates difference.
Self-worth creates a culture where all learners, all employees and our wider community have pride in their contributions and feel confident and valued.
Partnership is working together for the common good, ensuring that our learners are at the heart of all that we do.
Enjoyment is feeling happy, safe and motivated to make a positive contribution.
Communication provides a voice for all, creating a shared understanding through dialogue.
Trust is a partnership which requires us to act with integrity. Be brave, honest and kind.
Top 5 reasons for working for Lime Trust
- The Trust is committed to our vision and values as above which are always incorporated in everything the Trusts achieves.
- Reduced workload for teachers as planning days are arranged half termly for all year groups collectively across all schools.
- Enhanced benefits for both teachers and support staff
- CPD and career pathways which enhances career progression across the Trust
- Wellbeing is at the forefront for both leaners and employees.
- The Trust is committed to our vision and values as above and are always at the heart of the direction of the Trust growth plan.
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