Principal
St Elizabeth's School
Hertfordshire
- £85,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 23 April 2021
Job overview
37.5 hours per week
About the role
St Elizabeth's is a charitable organisation that supports children and adults with severe epilepsy and other complex medical conditions and learning disabilities. We provide support through holistic care, health and education services in a safe environment that enables vulnerable people to maximise their personal potential in all areas of life.
We are seeking a Principal who will provide authoritative and professional visionary leadership to St Elizabeth’s Educational Services, which include our on-site Catholic Special School and Independent Specialist College. Working with the Trustees, the CEO and the Senior Leadership Team, the Principal will support and develop the Centres Educational Services in line with its mission and ethos and, as we look to the future, we need to ensure we are well positioned to respond to the changing needs of our residents, learners and young people.
About you
The Principal will ensure effective high standards of day-to-day leadership and management are adopted within our School and College, whilst working collaboratively with direct reports to ensure the holistic needs of all students and learners are effectively assessed and met.
You will be an experienced Teacher with NPQH status, and previous experience at Head Teacher level or similar within a SEN school or college environment. You will have excellent leadership skills along with experience of managing a team. An outstanding classroom practitioner, you will be fully conversant with the legal, regulatory and inspection requirements of Ofsted, along with willingness and commitment to support the ethos and values of St Elizabeth’s.
Our Benefits
In addition to excellent staff training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment:
- Competitive salary
- 27 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays)
- Fully paid for DBS
- Life Assurance
- Opportunity to pursue recognised qualifications of your own
- Free parking
- High Street retail/leisure discounts
- Discounted gym membership
- Recommend a Friend payment of up to £300
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Contributory Pension Scheme
How can you find out more?
To apply and to find out more information about St Elizabeth’s, please visit our website: www.stelizabeths.org.uk or email recruitment@stelizabeths.org.uk.
Interviews will take place over two days on 28th and 29th April, with a classroom based exercise on site followed by two panel interviews with our Trustees, CEO and Senior Leadership Team.
All offers are conditional and subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check. Please note we are not on a public transport route. Salary is dependent on the role, qualifications and experience.
We reserve the right to close this advert if we receive sufficient applications ahead of the deadline.
Registered Charity 1176777
Equal opportunities employer
Facebook: @Stelizabethrecruitment
Instagram: @Stelizabeths_recruitment
Twitter: twitter.com/st_elizabeths
Attached documents
About St Elizabeth's School
Welcome
St Elizabeth's School is a Specialist School for young people aged 7 - 19 years. We offer a warm, welcoming, safe and secure environment for children from all over the UK.
We are more than just an epilepsy school!
The School is a centre of expertise in supporting and educating young people with moderate or severe learning difficulties (MLD/SLD), profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) or other complex neurological conditions potentially caused or complicated by epilepsy. Our Multi-Disciplinary Teams, in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, equip the School to serve a wide range of complex needs such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), language and communication needs or challenging behaviours.
As either a residential or day pupil, every young person we welcome to our School is unique and valued. Our integrated care, therapeutic and academic provision is planned around the individual and delivered through a seamless, coordinated and consistent waking day curriculum, either in the classrooms or in our residential accommodation, available all year round.
Supporting pupils to make progress and develop independence skills is at the heart of everything we do, providing a safe and caring environment in which they can achieve their fullest potential.
St Elizabeth’s maintains as a Roman Catholic School, but we are fully inclusive and welcome children from all faiths or of no religion. Religious Education and our Christian ethos is taught by all teachers, and supported by our Catholic Ethos Advocate. Our Centre chapel is used frequently for Mass and our many prayer rooms give anyone the opportunity for quiet reflection throughout the day. If they choose, children can be prepared to receive their First Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Ethos, Aims & Values
Weekly assemblies form the focus of our Religious Education, with all children being given the opportunity to organise and participate on a regular basis. All assemblies begin with the whole school sharing our core value statement: ‘To live and learn as friends together. To Share and Give and Love.’
Our Aims for Young People
At St Elizabeth’s each young person will have the opportunity to live and learn in a safe and nurturing environment where differences are acknowledged, respected and valued – where abilities are recognised and achievement is celebrated.
- To know and feel that they are safe.
- To be able to access a full and meaningful education through a curriculum that is adapted to individual learning profiles.
- To promote an understanding of children’s rights and advocacy services, assisting children to make choices and communicate their needs.
- To be able to achieve to their full potential.
- To have access to excellent health and therapy care which enables them to enjoy varied life experiences and retain a good level of general well being.
- To reduce barriers to living ordinary lives as much as possible.
- To live and learn in an emotionally supportive environment which promotes their development as a young person.
- For children receiving residential care to live in youthful and fun houses which offer a sense of security and belonging.
- To be empowered and facilitated to make informed choices about their own lives.
- To become as independent as possible.
- To be able to learn from experience.
- To be provided with the best quality of life possible in relation to their needs.
- To be included in their own and local community as much as they are able.
- To be prepared for a transition into adult provision or alternative learning services as and when appropriate.
Head Teacher: Mrs Lisa Tooley
More information about our School can be found on our website www.stelizabeths.org.uk or by contacting us on 01279 844451
Registered address: St Elizabeth’s Centre, South End, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6EW
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