Interim Assistant Headteacher
Fitzwaryn School
Wantage
- £56,316 - £62,202 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership payscale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- Sept 2025
- Apply by:
- 27 May 2025
Job overview
We are looking for an Interim Assistant Headteacher at Fitzwaryn School. The Interim Assistant Headteacher will have distinct leadership responsibilities and hold a 40% teaching commitment complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others. The leadership team is supported by 4 TLR post holders, a behaviour lead, and a very experienced staff. This structure reflects the needs of the pupils and our commitment to provide new leadership opportunities within the school.
Main purpose
The Interim Assistant Headteacher will hold a key role within the Senior Leadership Team comprising of Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher.
Utilising their excellent leadership skills, the Interim Assistant Headteacher will support the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher in:
· Creating a culture of constant improvement through inspirational leadership, being committed to the highest achievement for all areas of the school and provide an outstanding education for all students.
· Communicate and fulfil the school’s vision and support the strategic direction of the school.
· Formulate the aims and objectives of the school.
· Manage the day-to-day operations of the school, including staff and resources.
· Work together with all staff to improve teaching and learning through effective curriculum development and delivery.
They may also be required to undertake any of the duties delegated by the Headteacher.
Essential Skills:
- Uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to help the school raise standards of achievement
- To be able to read and use data and to use a range of sources of evidence to make judgements and identify next steps.
- To be confident in use of IT as a teaching, learning, communication and administrative tool.
- Ability to create trusting, professional relationships within the school and the wider Trust
- Have excellent knowledge of childhood development.
- To have an empathetic approach when dealing with staff, pupils and parents.
- Ability to develop packages of support and training modules and deliver them to a range of audiences.
- Ability to be flexible in approach, be resilient and adapt quickly to changing needs.
- A commitment to developing inclusive classroom practices.
- High standards of innovation and creativity with resourcing.
- An understanding of a range of SEN and suitable strategies applicable to a mainstream setting.
- An ability to relate to staff including leaders and LA colleagues.
Attached documents
About Fitzwaryn School
- Fitzwaryn School
- Denchworth Road, Wantage
- Oxfordshire
- OX12 9ET
- United Kingdom
‘....Through learning to learn, pupils will access society....’
Fitzwaryn is an Outstanding Special School for children and young people from 3 – 19 years old whose Special Educational Needs range from Moderate Learning Difficulties through to Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.
The school is situated in Wantage, a small but growing market town in Oxfordshire. We have a fantastic, up to the minute, purpose built environment that enables us to deliver an exciting and diverse curriculum for each and every child. We continually strive to further develop our educational offer and in recent times we have added a Horticulture area and a bike track to our outside provision.
The school is organised into 11 classes including provision for EYFS and Post 16. Our dedicated staff team are committed to providing the best possible education for the pupils at the school, grasping every opportunity to provide a rich and diverse curriculum which often takes place outside the classroom. The staff team is committed to further developing their own skills and expertise through the Continuing Professional Development offered at the school. We work closely with parents, carers and other professionals to ensure we are meeting the diverse needs of all of the pupils.
Our vision of ‘through learning to learn, pupils will access society’ underpins all that we do with the aim that all of the pupils who have been with us leave with the skills and knowledge they need to successfully engage in the next stage of their lives and of course with fantastic memories of their time at Fitzwaryn!
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