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Headteacher

Langley Park School for Girls

Bromley

  • £103,025 - £120,512 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
L36-L43
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
January or Easter 2023 (September 2023 considered for an exceptional candidate)
Apply by:
28 September 2022

Job overview

Langley Park School for Girls and Langley Park School for Boys are both exceptional schools that ensure excellent academic outcomes for their students, alongside investing in sports, the arts and valuing the whole child.

We are seeking to appoint two highly effective and motivated professionals to the positions of Headteachers at our two schools and we are open to successful candidates who could join us from January or Easter 2023.  

Headteacher 

Salary: Leadership Scale 36-43 £103,025 - £120,512 

Our schools are inclusive, single sex, comprehensive secondary schools, with co-educational sixth forms and we achieve some of the best KS4 and KS5 results in the country. We are part of the newly formed Impact Multi Academy Trust, and we work closely within the Trust with our other two secondary schools and our three primary schools. 

We are looking to appoint two dynamic and inspirational Headteachers who understand the power of deep collaboration and will work highly effectively with our Chief Executive, the other Trust Headteachers and the wider Trust team of staff, trustees and governors to develop outstanding schools, which ensure exceptional education for all students. 

The start date can be January or Easter 2023 and both posts are offered on a full-time basis. 

A September 2023 start may be considered for an exceptional candidate. 

Candidates can express a preference for which school they would like to apply for, or they can also be considered for both.

As a trust that celebrates diversity and inclusion we value and positively encourage applications from applicants from sectors of society that are currently under-represented on our staff body.  

We would particularly welcome applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds for these roles.

We are looking for colleagues who will:

  • Demonstrate the knowledge, experience, skills and commitment to lead our schools at the very highest level. 
  • Exhibit the determination and enthusiasm needed to lead the schools, applying the Trust’s vision and values and deepening effective collaboration between the secondary schools and the wider Trust. 
  • Have the highest expectations of staff and pupils and the vision to develop and build a strong staff team and cohesive student body and to build strong relationships with parents.
  • Inspire and motivate all pupils and staff to develop in a well-disciplined, ambitious and harmonious environment.
  • Enable all pupils to achieve their potential during their time at the schools, ensuring that they leave school as mature, rounded, resilient individuals, ready to take their places as active citizens in the wider world.
  • Lead on behaviour, attitudes and personal development and be committed to the delivery of the highest standards of teaching and learning across the schools.

In return you will get:

  • The chance to work in exceptional schools and an ambitious Trust. 
  • Schools that prioritise staff well-being, satisfaction, and recognition as well as a professionally stimulating and collaborative working environment. 
  • The chance to shape the future direction and development of the schools. 
  • Outstanding professional development and support with strong progression opportunities. 

These are fantastic opportunities for the right individuals to join our schools at a very exciting time. 

Closing date: Midday on Wednesday 28th September 2022

Interviews: Thursday 6th October and Friday 7th October 2022

To apply, please see recruitment pack attached for details. Alternatively, please contact Wendy Andrews, Head of HR, email: WAndrews@imat.uk or telephone 07951 451206.

Please note CVs are not accepted.

No agencies.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

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About Langley Park School for Girls

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+44 208 663 4199

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The Borough

Bromley, the largest of the 32 London boroughs, stretches from urban Anerley, Penge and Crystal Palace to the open countryside of Kent. Its schools serve an intelligent and articulate community which has a great respect for, and expectation of, the education system.

Student numbers in the 17 secondary schools are high. There is much cross border traffic with many parents in neighbouring boroughs intent on securing places for their children in Bromley schools.
16 of the secondary schools in the borough have converted to academies.  Networks of staff across the schools are good, and there are many significant local partnerships, both in and out borough.

The School

This school dates back to 1919 when it began life as Beckenham County School for Girls. It changed from a grammar school to a comprehensive in 1976, some 17 years after moving to its present parkland site in South West Bromley. Our location provides a good rail link with Central London as well as easy access to the countryside.

It is now an all-ability school of 1700 students with a large co-educational Sixth Form. Currently there are 115 teaching staff , 58 associate staff (full and part time) and an annual budget of over £8 million.

We are consistently over-subscribed (last year 820 applications for Year 7 places and 520 applications for Year 12). Our current admission number is 240 (8 forms of entry) organised into 8 tutor groups. Heads of Year have responsibility with tutors for students’ academic and personal well-being and for monitoring their learning and progress. Rigorous tracking and target setting systems inform students’ learning and social inclusion issues, including SEN, are comprehensively and promptly covered by the Personal and Learning Support (PLS) Faculty which has its own dedicated area in the main school building.

Facilities are good although there is little spare capacity. We have a commitment to maintaining a pleasant, modern technological environment and our site staff and cleaners work hard to ensure that this is so. New build projects recently completed include a dedicated Dance Studio, and an extended and enhanced Sixth Form social and study space.

We encourage positive support from parents; we have a committed Governing Body and an active PSA; relationships between staff and students are very good; clubs, sport, music, drama, educational visits, residential visits and foreign tours all provide further opportunities for personal development for both students and staff.

If there is any information here about which you are not clear, please don’t hesitate to ring and we will be happy to clarify. Additionally please look on our web site at www.lpgs.bromley.sch.uk. You can access our prospectus, and if you click on the ‘NEWS’ tab, you can read in our monthly and termly Newsletters to Parents about the sorts of things that are our daily and weekly concerns.
I am very proud of this school, of the quality of its fabric and facilities, but more particularly of the quality of the experience it aims to provide for both students and staff. I know that they, and parents and Governors, share that pride with me. It does not, however, lead us into complacence. Regular self-scrutiny and a commitment to betterment are implicit and explicit in the way that we work here.

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