Head

Background

Wandsworth Prep genuinely develops children as individuals and has an excellent track record of helping pupils to transfer to a wide range of leading independent schools including Emmanuel College, St Paul’s Girls’ School and Whitgift School, amongst numerous others.

Against a challenging national backdrop for all independent schools, Wandsworth Prep is well-resourced and securely positioned within the Bellevue Education group – a long-established group of leading independent schools with a deep commitment to the highest educational standards and a track record of empowering and supporting Heads to thrive in and enjoy their responsibilities as leaders.  

As part of Bellevue, Wandsworth Prep receives specialist support in the areas of educational advice, finance, human resources and marketing, enabling the Head to focus on the most important aspects of their work: delivering an education which enables every child to reach their full potential.  Heads also benefit from shared best-practice and focused training programmes covering all aspects of education.

The Role

The Head is responsible to the Bellevue’s Education Director for the overall leadership and management of the school.

• The Head’s vision, inspiration, initiative and management are fundamental in creating an environment which enables every member of the school community to flourish as an individual.
• The Head will be expected to engage in continuing professional development in order to meet the present and future challenges of the role, and to undertake the process of performance management.
• The Head will be an advocate for the school across all the constituents of its community.
• The Head will keep the Education Director informed about the work of the school and consult them appropriately, for example over the formulation of the strategic and school development plans, marketing strategies, or significant curriculum or organisational change.
• The Head’s positive working relationship with the f inance team will be essential to the success and ongoing development of Wandsworth Prep.

Key Managerial and Leadership responsibilities

• The Head is responsible for ensuring that pupils are safe at all times, and all elements of KCSIE are at the forefront of the school’s agenda always.

Learning and Teaching

• To encourage learning to be at the core of all activities related to the school.
• To determine, implement and monitor appropriate academic, pastoral, moral and spiritual curricula for the school.
• To monitor and evaluate the quality of learning and teaching in the school, and to put in place appropriate initiative developments.
• To ensure that the progress of individual pupils is assessed, recorded, reported and supported.
• To encourage all staff to engage in continued professional development to benefit their own learning and to support pupils’ development.

Qualifications and Professional Development

• An appropriate DfE registered teaching qualification, a further professional qualification e.g. NPQH or education focussed MA is considered desirable.

Experience

• The candidate will have substantial experience and record of success as an effective Head, Deputy or Assistant Head.
• A track record of effective and successful teaching, with relevant experience in EYFS, KS1 and KS2, preferably with specific experience of preparing children for examinations to state grammar and independent secondary schools.
• A proven ability to lead and develop themselves and teams, being adept at identifying personal areas for development and recognising the potential and development needs of others.