Headteacher
Parkside Community School
Derbyshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L26 – L32 (£72,810 - £84,339)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2019
Job overview
Parkside Community School is a good school with sustained improvement. The school has now achieved three years of record breaking GCSE results which have exceeded national averages and placed the school in the upper quartiles nationally across a number of areas. This is an exciting time to join the school; in 2017 we were ranked the highest performing school for progress in Derbyshire.
We are looking for a new Headteacher who is able to lead the school in sustaining improvements and able to take the school further in its journey to excellence. GCSE success at Parkside has increased the school’s popularity in Chesterfield and offered parents in the locality more choice when making decisions about secondary schooling.
The Headteacher is supported by a committed and high quality team of teaching, support staff and an aspirational Governing Body that provides support and challenge.
Have you the strategic vision, ambition and proven track record to deliver excellence?
Governors are seeking to appoint an outstanding leader and strategic thinker who has:
- A deep knowledge and understanding of current developments in teaching and learning to sustain and develop student progress and the raising of achievement
- The ability to motivate, challenge and engage collaboratively with the school stakeholders to ensure the highest levels of achievement
- The skills to manage change effectively
- The presence to be an influential ambassador in the local and wider community
- The ability to translate our vision into positive outcomes.
Visits to the school by arrangement are warmly welcomed – please contact us on 01246 273458.
Please also visit our website for further details of the school – www.parkside.derbyshire.sch.uk.
Committed to safeguarding the welfare of our pupils.
Closing date: Midday on Thursday 13 September 2018
Interviews: 25, 26 and 27 September 2018
Further details and an application pack are available online at www.derbyshire.gov.uk/jobs or Call Derbyshire on 08456 058058 quoting Job Reference DCC/18/1203A.
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About Parkside Community School
- Parkside Community School
- Boythorpe Avenue, Boythorpe, Chesterfield
- Derbyshire
- S40 2NS
- United Kingdom
We are an Ofsted Good School (2022) that is continually developing and improving to move forward to provide the very best experience for our staff, pupils, and community.
Parkside Community School is a good school with sustained improvement over time. In 2022 the school achieved a progress 8 score of +0.61, following a score of +0.59 in 2019 when performance figures were last published. This makes Parkside the highest achieving school in Derbyshire for progress in three of the last four years in which performance figures have been published.
Underpinning our success are our valued, passionate, and dedicated staff team who benefit from manageable workloads, extensive opportunities within continuous professional development programmes and a fun, driven and exciting working environment.
Our ethos and collective purpose is to ensure that pupils, staff, families and the wider community fully commit to ‘Caring about the choices that will shape your future’. We are absolutely committed to supporting every member of staff to thrive and achieve the level of performance, career progression and fulfilment their care, ambition and commitment demonstrates.
The intent of the Parkside Curriculum is to be leading edge, facilitating the best academic and personal development outcomes for our pupils. Our Parkside Support Centre is driven to provide all necessary support to ensure our pupils can learn, participate, and feel they belong to Parkside.
Parkside has and will continue to positively serve to change life chances for pupils, and we are forever grateful to all those who contribute to this process.
Please take time to view our school website to learn more about our wonderful school. http://www.parkside.derbyshire.sch.uk/
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