AddressStart Date: September 2024
Contract/Hours: Full Time
Salary details: L1-3
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 13th May 12pm
Interview Date: Friday 17th May 2024
Are you ready for a new leadership challenge?
Are you ready for the next step in your career?
Do you want the opportunity to develop teaching & learning across the school?
Are you innovative, inspirational and ambitious?
Would you like to receive training to be an accredited coach supported by Annie Boate – A coaching revolution?
We are an oversubscribed popular school situated in a village where there is a real sense of community. We are looking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher (AHT) who is also an excellent class teacher to join our leadership team. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate proven leadership skills and make a significantly positive impact in leading and inspiring our existing staff team. The AHT will deputise for the Headteacher when she is carrying out her role as School Improvement Partner within the local authority.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced teacher at any stage in their career to join our outward-looking school, and further progress within a supportive, dedicated and forward-thinking team.
We pride ourselves on supporting staff to be highly successful, recognising that success comes in a wide variety of ways, creating a culture of continual improvement where we look to provide the best possible educational experience for all our children and staff. Our professional development meetings (staff meetings) are spent reading research, in training or planning together and we have had several support staff and teachers who are gaining additional qualifications such as L7 Apprenticeship with MSc in Leadership and Management. Our current AHT is an LA moderator and an accredited coach.
Our children are enthusiastic, inquisitive and keen to learn and succeed. Our families are supportive, proactive and community minded. Our Headteacher and Governors are ambitious and tenacious in their approach to school leadership. Our Headteacher is a School Improvement Partner for the Local Authority and a mentor to Aspiring headteachers.
Our recent Ofsted report February 2022 commented on ‘Clanfield being a harmonious place where staff, pupils and parents and carers all feel that they are part of one close-knit family. Happiness and joy are apparent everywhere’.
We are looking for:
- Someone who can work well within a collaborative team, whilst being self-motivated and able to work independently;
- Someone with the ability to enthuse and engage our staff;
- Someone who is an inspirational and innovative leader;
- Someone who will lead on Teaching and Learning;
- Someone who will add capacity to the SLT;
- Someone who is ambitious and aspires to be a Headteacher and who will lead the school in the Heads absence;
- A values-led individual with high expectations of achievement and behaviour for themselves and others;
- Someone who is committed to their personal career progression and enhancement;
- Someone who will work in close partnership with the Headteacher and staff team:
- Someone with a good sense of humour who doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
We can offer you:
- A happy, supportive and friendly environment where we work effectively as a team - Ofsted and recent staff survey reported 100% staff are happy in their role;
- Enthusiastic pupils who are inquisitive and want to learn of whom 100% enjoy School (Ofsted, 2022);
- Governors who are committed to the continuing development of the school and staff;
- CPD opportunities for experienced teachers to help develop their career;
- Wellbeing days;
- Coaching training as provided by the number 1 provider # Coaching in Schools-Annie Boate;
- Opportunity to lead the school in the absence of the Headteacher;
- Leadership time to fulfil the role each week;
- Any year group – Y1/2 or Y5/6 preferred;
- The chance to make a real difference within our school and community;
- The opportunity to be involved in planning an ambitious, inspiring and challenging curriculum for all pupils- one which has been shared in the local authority as a model of excellence ;
- A promise to ensure workload is constantly monitored for all staff;
- A commitment to a healthy work/life balance with blocked PPA time that can be taken off site;
- A sociable, high spirited and happy team;
- A village with an award-winning café, boutique restaurant and outdoor education centre within 500 metres.
This is no ordinary school; this may be a small school, but it has a big ambition.
Please contact our office on 01367 810257 to arrange a visit; we look forward to welcoming you.
Mrs Kim Rogers,Headteacher
Oxfordshire Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All users are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed.
As part of the vetting procedures, shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search. This isn’t part of the shortlisting process, and there will be a chance to address any issues of concern should it be necessary.
