Deputy Warden
Forest School
Waltham Forest
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April or September 2017
- Apply by:
- 6 February 2017
Job overview
Forest School seeks to appoint an exemplary Deputy Warden to promote and develop Forest School’s ethos and policies. He/she will contribute to the life of the School in ways agreed with the Warden, in order to enhance the educational opportunities for all Forest pupils, and to be instrumental in helping create a happy, well-organised and stimulating environment.
As deputy for the Warden he/she will oversee all aspects of Teaching Staff performance at Forest School as well as contribute to the School’s general strategic planning and direction, helping establish the School’s policies through which the aims and objectives will be achieved, but also managing Teaching Staff and monitoring progress towards the achievement of those aims.
The role therefore involves significant strategic as well as operational responsibility, alongside project management.
Forest School is a thriving, selective, Diamond Structure day school and is situated on a beautiful site in North East London with outstanding facilities.
Closing date Monday, 6 February 2017 at 8.00am
Interviews will be held on the week commencing 20 February 2017
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointment to this position requires an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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About Forest School
Forest is an outstanding all-round School, well known for its friendly, welcoming ethos, and full of 1450 bright sparky pupils aged 4-18. We are lucky to be located in this part of North East London, allowing us to attract pupils from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds who share in being academically ambitious, but are grounded, engaging and very loyal to the School. Described by the Good Schools Guide as a ‘powerhouse with a heart’ and enjoying a reputation for strong expert teaching and learning, Forest pupils are encouraged to find success on all fronts through the breadth of the opportunities on offer to them.
We aim to develop the whole pupil through our distinct educational provision which gives equal weight to academic, co-curricular and pastoral strands of school life. To this end, Forest promotes all-round educational excellence, recognising that advancement to higher education or the world of work requires top academic grades but keen to develop a sense of service in the pupils and an awareness of their responsibilities to other people, as well as themselves. Forest is recognised as a school that is always evolving, self-evaluating and planning strategically for its future, while valuing its heritage and its location, all of which makes our community a stimulating one to work in for our 150+ teachers and 100+ non-teaching staff.
For full details about working at Forest School please visit our website www.forest.org.uk
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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