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School Business Director

School Business Director

Heathcote School & Science College

London - Waltham Forest

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
11 April 2018

Job overview

HEATHCOTE SCHOOL AND SCIENCE COLLEGE

Normanton Park, Chingford, London, E4 6ES

  

HEATHCOTE SCHOOL AND SCIENCE COLLEGE

Normanton Park, Chingford, London, E4 6ES

School Business Director

Scale PO 10 - 11, point 49 – 52, or 63 - 66

£55,494 - £58,515 or £59,523 - £62,829 per annum, depending on experience

Commencing as soon as possible

Are you looking for an exciting challenge? Are you able to inspire others to achieve their potential? 

Heathcote School is an 11 – 18 School that has a new Headteacher and a new vision. The school is on a rapid journey of improvement ensuring the ‘good’ status (Ofsted 2014/2018) is retained and for the school to ultimately become ‘outstanding’ in all areas. This is an exciting time to be at a school in an unparalleled setting with unlimited potential. In a recent survey, 96% of staff stated that they enjoy working at this school.

The School Improvement Plan (2017 – 2020) focuses on four key areas:

· Building at all levels an ambitious culture of high challenge and low threat enabling Heathcote to be the school of choice for staff and parents.

· Ensuring the best possible learning and leadership of learning, across the school.

· Ensuring safety is at the heart of everything we do and standards of behaviour and attendance are exemplary within the school and community.

· Giving all pupils equal opportunities to make maximum progress. 

We are looking for a qualified and talented School Business Director to help us reach our ambitions. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate high impact in leading and managing school business, financial, premises, HR, administrative and IT provision. You will have excellent organisational, communication and IT skills and will be solution focused and emotionally intelligent. Please note we anticipate applications from the business as well as educational sectors.

The School Business Director will be part of the Senior Leadership Team and work strategically with our leaders to ensure the School Improvement Plan is rapidly realized and resources are used in the most effective way to improve pupil outcomes and ensure staff are able to provide the highest quality of learning and teaching.

The school puts well-being and development at the heart of its work and we have very talented staff who are encouraged to grow, develop and work collaboratively, within school and with local schools, and to be the best they can be. We are working to ensure school improvement in a high challenge, low threat way and enable robust systems and structures to ensure consistency in all areas, encouraging the growth and development of all. The school has excellent resources and a stunning site close to the forest. 

If you are interested, please look at our school website www.heathcoteschool.com where you will find application forms and further information. If you would like to arrange a visit, please contact the School Office on 020 8498 5110.

Completed application forms should be emailed to recruitment@heathcote.waltham.sch.uk

Closing Date for receipt of applications:  2pm Thursday 12th April 2018

Visits to the school: 8.30am Tuesday 27th March 2018 

Indicative dates for interviews:  Wednesday 18th April 2018

Heathcote School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure.

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About Heathcote School & Science College

 Heathcote School is an 11 – 18 school on a rapid journey of improvement. The Headteacher joined the school in 2017 and is working with all stakeholders to ensure we provide the best education and life chances we can to the young people of our community. In September 2018 we had a full Ofsted inspection where we were graded as good in all areas. This is an exciting time to be at a school in an unparalleled setting with unlimited potential in a high challenge, low threat environment. 

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