Head Teacher
Cygnet Hospital Bury
Bury
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- £45,000pa
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 10 October 2019
Job overview
The role of Headteacher at Excel & exceed will be highly rewarding.
You will work with a wide range of stakeholders and teaching staff to ensure that the school meets all of the independent school standards.
You will lead the school through its journey to Outstanding, and contribute to Care Quality Commission inspections of the hospital.
An outstanding educational practitioner with the passion and vision to transform vulnerable lives, you will ensure that all young people have access to high quality education.
Depending on the candidate, the post holder can be offered mentoring, support and training to help them fulfil this role.
You will be an ambassador for the school and will ensure links are established and maintained with key stakeholders in the wider hospital and across the Cygnet group of schools.
Your passion for education will ensure you lead a team of staff to deliver the best education in a way flexible enough to meet the individual needs of every young person.
You will welcome diversity and celebrate different cultures.
For additional information please download our candidate briefing pack or call Ed Hall (head of education) for an informal chat on 07860834648 (email edwardhall@cygnethealth.co.uk).
Visits to the school are welcome. We have appointments available throughout the vacancy period, please use contact above to arrange. Such a visit is not part of the selection process and whether or not applicants have visited will not influence the final outcome.
To make an application please complete the application form available on TES and return with a covering letter to edwardhall@cygnethealth.co.uk.
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About Cygnet Hospital Bury
Excel and Exceed Centre is the specialist provider of education for all young people admitted to Cygnet Hospital Bury. Teaching happens within a school unit, equipped with an ICT suite and an interactive whiteboard. The school also has access to a kitchen, gymnasium, outside courtyard and therapeutic garden.
The below academic sessions sit within the blocks marked ‘education’ on the example timetable:
- KS3: 4 x English, 4 x Maths, 3 x Science, 2 x Humanities, 1 x Creative Studies, 1 x PSHE/Citizenship
- KS4: 4 x English, 4 x Maths, 3 x Science, 3 x Humanities, 1 x PSHE/Citizenship
- KS5: 12 x Personalised Sessions (including Maths and English if required), 1 x Literacy, 1 x Numeracy, 1 x Citizenship/PSHE
The Excel and Exceed Centre includes the following teaching and non-teaching staff:
- Jennifer Almond – Head Teacher and Designated Safeguard Lead
- Tayyaba Ahmed – Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Shaneela Joshi – Teacher
- Jayne Rowlands – Education Officer and Designated Teacher LAC
- Lyndsey Halkon – Teacher
- Rebecca Wood – Teacher
- Louise Hardwick – Teacher
- Jenny Hunter – National SEN Case Co-ordinator
- Joanne Rider – Teaching Assistant
- Sonia Malick – Teaching Assistant
Jennifer Almond, Tel: 0161 762 7212
Email: jenniferalmond@cygnethealth.co.uk
Address: Cygnet Hospital Bury, Buller Street, off Bolton Road, Bury, BL8 2BS
Jayne Rowlands, Tel: 0161 762 4358
Email: jaynerowlands@cygnethealth.co.uk
Address: Cygnet Hospital Bury, Buller Street, off Bolton Road, Bury, BL8 2BS
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