Headteacher

Oakleigh School is excited to welcome applications for the position of Headteacher. Due to the planned retirement of the current Headteacher after 9 years of service, governors are looking to appoint an exceptional Headteacher who will continue the outstanding legacy of the school and lead it through its new phase of development. We will renumerate you with outer London Pay Group 6 (£80,944 - £111,406) depending on experience based.  

Governors are seeking an exceptional energetic leader who is passionate about SEND and can inspire and motivate all involved in the school to ensure our children retain the school motto of “being the best we can be”.

§ Are you an excellent communicator with creativity and vision who will inspire and lead change?

§ Do you have recent success as senior leader and SEND experience within primary years?

§ Do you have a background of strong practice to manage the various aspects of our school and are ready to embrace future challenges?

§ Are you keen to keep high quality research informed teaching and learning at the heart of all we do at Oakleigh school?

Learn more about us …. we would love to hear from you!

Oakleigh School is an extremely popular and oversubscribed maintained community special school in the London Borough of Barnet for pupils from early years to 11 with highly complex special educational needs and disabilities. The need for special needs places in the area is significant with children’s needs being ever more complex.

Your role will cover leadership of:

·        132 children at the main school in Oakleigh Park which is the primary location for this post as well as secondary satellite provision at Queenswell School nearby

·        44 children attending Acorn Assessment Units at Queenswell and Colindale Schools

·        Barnet Early Years Advisory SEND provision who have responsibility for 180 children on their caseloads as well as 40 children on specialist pathways and over 200 receiving support in some way.

·        175 staff including teaching, educational support, therapeutic and administrative.

Most children on the Oakleigh roll are identified to have Autism / SCLN needs with 16 identified as having PMLD and 25% as having SLD needs. The school has grown in the last 10 years and continues to have a demand for places year on year. Of note 54 of the 132 children on the school roll are pupil premium children.

As our Headteacher, you will have the support from:

ü strong and capable Senior Leadership Team who have been responsible to date for the school’s success.

ü Other Barnet Special School heads via the MOON partnership

ü an active Governing Body

ü London Borough of Barnet Learning Network Inspectorate.

The school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the

welfare of children, and young people. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring and background check. References will be taken, and the school will carry out an online search as part of their due diligence for all shortlisted candidates in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022.

(Please note “skilled worker visa” is not eligible for this post)

For more information about the school www.oakleighschool.co.uk

Email jobs@oakleigh.barnet.sch.uk

For an informal visit , or any further information contact Nikki Bennett (Chair of governors) nikki.bennett@oakleigh.barnet.sch.uk

Closing Date : 22.02.2024

Interviews : 5th and 9th February 2024