Headteacher St John's Special School and College

Headteacher

St John’s Special School and College

Start date April or September 2023

Salary Range: 7HT2 – 7HT8

A generous relocation package is available for UK candidates outside the Bedfordshire area.

St John’s Special School and College

Austin Canons

Bedford Road

Kempston

Beds

MK42 8AB

Email: biltt.hr@biltt.org

Website: https://biltt.org

St John’s Special School and College caters for learners aged between 2 and 19 years of age who have severe and profound multiple learning difficulties.

We are a pupil centred school who embrace the diversity and differences of all our pupils. Our fantastic staff, who are highly skilled and dedicated, support pupils to access an exciting and engaging curriculum in order to develop and secure skills for life and promote overall development.

Our curriculum framework is used flexibly to teach individual targets derived from the five areas of learning within pupils’ Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) and is continually evolving to meet the needs of our pupils.

Our pupils love learning and enjoy coming to school. We aim to make learning irresistible in our school by making it exciting, functional and relevant to our pupils, while meeting their individual needs. 

We are seeking to appoint an exceptional, dynamic and inspirational Headteacher who has a proven track record of initiating, managing and leading effective change. Your high level of professional values and educational philosophy will ensure that St John’s School makes sustained improvements in all areas. You will have the commitment and aspiration for our pupils and staff to reach their full potential and have a commitment to the attainment and achievement of greater levels of independence for pupils who have complex, medical, behavioural and physical learning difficulties.

Candidates will be committed to the collaboration and effective partnership working required to secure innovative personalised learning pathways for pupils with complex learning difficulties and have an exceptional appreciation of student-centred approaches. You will be a highly motivated leader who is committed to implementing significant and sustained improvements across St John’s School and the wider Trust. Someone who is enthusiastic to see all of our pupils flourish in safe, secure and welcoming learning environments.

If you are seeking a new challenge which will deliver and maintain outstanding approaches to the quality of education for our pupils, then please complete an application form.

To obtain application pack or for further details for this exciting post please download a pack from https://biltt.org or send an email request to biltt.hr@biltt.org

Tours of the school are highly recommended.

Recruitment timetable

Closing date: 9am Monday 9th January 2023

Interview date: TBC

The post is subject to Enhanced DBS Clearance, Health Clearance, social media checks, a probationary period and satisfactory references. BILTT is committed to safeguarding, Prevent, the welfare of pupils and ensuring equality of opportunity for all pupils, staff, parents and carers; irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, belief, sex or sexual orientation and expects staff to share that commitment. 

We look forward to hearing from you

Specialist, Collaborative, Dynamic & Aspirational