KS2 Headteacher - with teaching responsibility
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Role Headteacher (with teaching responsibility)
School St Breward Primary School
Contract Full time, permanent
Pay Range L6 – L10 - £50,122 to £55,359 per annum
Commencing 1st September 2023
Requirements of
moving through
salary grades
To make an impact at school level on pupil outcomes and
experience, continuing professional development and
maintaining a portfolio of evidence to be reviewed through
performance management.
Role Purpose:
•The Headteacher will provide strong, collaborative leadership and management of
the school in partnership with the Chief Executive Officer of North Cornwall
Learning Trust.
•The Headteacher will lead the continual development and advancement of highquality teaching and learning in order to maximise the potential of all pupils.
•The Headteacher will engage effectively with parents and other stakeholders in the
life and work of the school as well as inspiring and further developing the strong
and committed staff team.
Statutory Duties:
•To fulfil all the requirements and duties as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and
Conditions Document
•To meet the National Standards for Head teachers as published by the Department
for Education (DfE).
•To achieve any performance criteria, objectives or targets agreed with or set by the
Trust in accordance with the requirements set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and
Conditions Document.
•To promote and safeguard the welfare of all children within the school. To create
and sustain an environment which safeguards children and adults based on a clear
understanding of individual and collective responsibilities for safeguarding.
At North Cornwall Learning Trust, our vision is:
Ensuring everyone experiences and enjoys success.
And our Mission:
By working together to nurture the talent in our community, and build within
every individual an intrinsic sense of self-worth, achievement and belonging.
We ask our staff to help us achieve this, by fulfilling the expectations of their
role, as outlined under the following trust aims.
The Headteacher will:
• Work in partnership with the Chief Executive Officer, SLT and Trust Board to plan and
steer the strategic vision and mission for the school.
• Ensure that the vision and mission for the school is clearly articulated, shared,
understood and embodied within all in the schools’ community
• Lead by example in developing and advancing the agreed educational direction for
the school.
• Take the lead responsibility for developing the School Improvement Plan (in
partnership with appropriate stakeholders), co-ordinating action plans and reporting
progress.
• In collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, ensure that all school policies are
implemented, monitored, evaluated and reviewed.
• Work in partnership to quality assure the impact of policies, priorities and targets
taking action as necessary to ensure relevance and results.
Headteacher Role:
1. Providing a broad, exciting and holistic curriculum, full of opportunity,
experience and diversity.
• Develop a curriculum that reflects the diverse interests and skills of students,
engaging them in new and exciting experiences and developing within them
curiosity and expertise.
• Develop effective links with the community to extend the curriculum and enhance
teaching and learning.
• Lead and inspire excellence in teaching and learning so that all staff continually
strive to deliver the best possible outcomes for each child.
• Have a proven ability in relation to the curriculum to launch new / unique ideas and
continually review, refresh and develop it ensuring at all times it is broad, balanced
and relevant.
2. Building strong foundations and providing exciting opportunities for
development and growth.
• Ensure that core skills are taught proficiently and effectively in school, leading to
the majority of pupils achieving expected outcomes in end of phase testing.
• Implement sound reporting systems which inform the appropriate members of the
school community and beyond, including regular reports to the Chief Executive
Officer, Trustees and Local Governance Council.
• Present a coherent and accurate account of the performance of the school in a
form appropriate to a range of audiences including SLT, Local Governance Council,
DfE, OFSTED etc.
• Analyse data skilfully and proficiently and, whenever necessary, use results as a
platform from which to drive change whether over the short, medium or long term.
• Focus on the use of agreed assessment tools and systems to promote individual
pupil achievement.
3. Taking care of our mental health and that of others. Providing support,
encouragement and understanding where they are needed.
• Embrace and continue the nurturing, family environment within the school.
• To ensure that the wellbeing of staff and pupils is at the forefront of decision
making.
• Manage the development of effective pastoral support for pupils and staff.
4. Striving for equality, celebrating diversity and difference, making each and
every individual feel proud of who they are.
• Ensure that the school effectively promotes equal opportunities for staff and pupils.
• Ensure diversity in curriculum, resources and experience.
5. Seeking out, identifying and celebrating success at every level in every person.
• Ensure effective strategies are in place and agencies are involved to meet the needs
of all pupils within a fully inclusive provision.
• Develop an effective partnership with parents to support and improve pupils’
achievement and personal development.
• Ensure that staff and pupils feel valued and rewarded for their contribution, in
whatever field they excel.
6. Making the world a more accessible place, full of opportunity for all.
• Champion the needs of all pupils to create a fully inclusive environment for
teaching and learning with a focus on overcoming barriers.
• To ensure that pupils have a good understanding of the wider world and its
relationship with their home and culture.
7. Ensuring that high expectations and accountability are backed up by
effective coaching and support.
• Have strong leadership skills that will embrace, empower and further develop the
existing strengths of the current team bringing a fresh perspective.
• Undertake responsibility for performance management of identified staff.
• To have the confidence to implement and manage change even in circumstances
where there may be resistance.
• Motivate and enable the teaching and support staff to develop expertise in their
respective roles through high quality continuing professional development whilst at
the same time engendering an environment where there is continual support and
challenge and where all staff recognise their accountability.
• Ensure that teaching and learning is monitored, evaluated and developed with
consistency and rigour.
8. Fuelling aspiration for ourselves, our community and our future.
• Maintain and further enhance the school’s standing and role within its local
community.
• Challenge and encourage pupils and the community to think big, aim high and
realise dreams.
9. Encouraging innovation and creative thinking.
• Support staff and pupils in innovative practice.
• Keep abreast of developments in thinking and reflect those in practice.
10. Providing a stimulating, safe and secure environment in which our
community can thrive.
• Ensure every member of staff is committed to the protection and safeguarding of
children, has up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and relevant training.
• Lead an effective behaviour and attendance policy that promotes personal
responsibility and a positive environment for learning.
• Ensure that the school provides a safe and secure environment for all pupils.
11. Ensuring that available resources are targeted at activities that further the
ability of the Trust to achieve its Vision.
• In conjunction with the Chief Executive Officer, SLT and Local Governance Council,
take part in and, where relevant manage, the recruitment, induction and retention
policies of the school.
• Monitor and review staff deployment to ensure that at all times resources are used
most effectively. Ensure talent management is given a high profile and succession
planning is shrewd.
• Ensure, in collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer and Trust Board, that the
school’s resources are creatively and rigorously managed
12. Looking after our world and our environment for future generations.
• Encourage and support green policy and practice in all areas of school life.
• Maximise the opportunity for these policies to be reflected in the taught curriculum
and wider pupil experience.
Person Specification
Essential
The successful applicant must have
Desirable
Qualifications • Good honours degree
• Qualified teacher status
• NPQH (or
undertaking)
Experience • Proven experience of successful leadership
in education.
• Track record of excellence in teaching.
• Experience of
liaison with
external agencies.
Shaping the
Future
• The ability to think strategically, generate
and share a coherent and ambitious vision.
• The ability to inspire, motivate and
empower others to carry the vision forward.
• Proven ability to implement strategies for
raising pupil achievement including
monitoring and evaluation of the work of
others.
• A commitment to the setting and achieving
of ambitious and challenging goals and
targets.
• Ability to devolve responsibilities, delegate
tasks and monitor and evaluate effective
implementation.
• Exercise
accountability
effectively,
efficiently and
fairly.
• Experience of
building,
supporting and
working with highperforming teams.
Decision
Making
• Make decisions based on analysis,
interpretation and understanding of
relevant information and have confidence,
clarity and decisiveness in making and
carrying out decisions.
• Think creatively and imaginatively to
anticipate and solve problems and identify
opportunities.
• Demonstrate good judgement.
• Understanding of
which issues to
prioritise and deal
with and which to
consult on.
Managing the
Organisation
• The ability to establish appropriate
structures and systems to manage the
school efficiently and effectively.
• The ability to assert outstanding leadership
whilst working in collaboration with the
Chief Executive Officer
• The ability to think creatively, to anticipate
and solve problems, including under
pressure.
Developing
self and
working with
others
• The ability to use effectively a range of
management and leadership styles and to
empower, lead by example, motivate
through encouragement and sustain
individuals and teams.
• A commitment to continuing professional
development for self and all others within
the school.
• The ability to work effectively with the Local
Monitoring Council.
• Communicate effectively orally and in
writing to a range of audiences and
professionals.
Securing
Accountability
• The ability to foster individual, team and
whole school accountability for pupil
learning outcomes.
• The ability to monitor and evaluate the
effectiveness of all aspects of the school’s
work.
• The ability to collect and use a range of
data to understand the strengths and
weaknesses of the school.
• Understand the importance of promoting
and safeguarding the welfare of pupils.
• Be able to promote and develop positive
relationships within and beyond the school.
• Have the drive, vision and ability to work in
partnership with the Chief Executive Officer
and Trustees to set the strategic direction
for the school and to be a pioneer of
change.
Leading
Teaching and
Learning
• The ability to ensure that a stimulating,
rigorous and suitably challenging learning
environment is in place.
• A thorough understanding of appropriate
models of learning, teaching and
pedagogy.
Strengthening
Community
• An ability to develop and nurture effective
partnerships with all stakeholders in
support of children’s learning and school
improvement.
As this will also be a teaching role, you can see the job description for teachers
below.
Teaching Role:
13. Providing a broad, exciting and holistic curriculum, full of opportunity,
experience and diversity.
• To plan and prepare lessons in order to deliver the National Curriculum ensuring
breadth and balance in all subjects.
• To thread pupil experiences that add interest and engagement throughout the
curriculum, including the trust ‘experiences’ programme.
• To ensure that all teaching leads to clear curriculum end points, with high
expectations of pupils.
14. Building strong foundations and providing exciting opportunities for
development and growth.
• To maintain a regular system of monitoring, assessment, record keeping and
reporting of children’s progress.
• To ensure a constant focus on basic academic skills, including reading, throughout
all subjects.
15. Taking care of our mental health and that of others. Providing support,
encouragement and understanding where they are needed.
• To plan opportunities to develop the social, emotional, and cultural aspects of
pupil’s learning.
• To have regard for the MHWB of yourself, and others at all times.
• To provide support and encouragement to staff and pupils where it is needed.
16. Striving for equality, celebrating diversity and difference, making each and
every individual feel proud of who they are.
• To positively promote equality as an integral part of the role and to treat everybody
with fairness and dignity.
• To consider representation of culture and ethnic background throughout your
resourcing and teaching.
17. Seeking out, identifying and celebrating success at every level in every
person.
• To organise and manage groups or individual pupils ensuring scaffolding of
learning enables all learners to reach challenging goals.
• To actively consider the performance and engagement of disadvantaged pupils
throughout your teaching, including Pupil Premium, Looked After Children and
those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
• To consider outcomes for higher attaining pupils and ensure that they are able to
meet challenging curricular targets.
• To communicate and consult with parents over all aspects of their children’s
education-academic, social and emotional.
18. Making the world a more accessible place, full of opportunity for all.
• To ensure that pupils are exposed to information and experience from across the
world, from a variety of cultures, countries and beliefs systems.
• To support the school in developing a strong programme of educational trips and
visits.
• To consider equality of access in all aspects of school life.
19. Ensuring that high expectations and accountability are backed up by
effective coaching and support.
• To participate in staff meetings as required.
• To contribute to the development and co-ordination of a particular area of the
curriculum.
• To engage in continuing professional development.
• To provide pupils with high quality feedback, in order for them to be able to reach
challenging targets.
• To exhibit and expect high standards of presentation.
• To ensure that you deliver high quality, first wave teaching to pupils in your class.
• To be part of a whole school team, actively involved in decision-making on the
preparation and development of policies and programmes of study, teaching
materials, resources, methods of teaching and pastoral arrangements.
• To ensure school policies are reflected in daily practice.
• To listen to, and act upon, developmental feedback given to you by line managers
and colleagues.
• To promote the ethos of the school.
20. Fuelling aspiration for ourselves, our community and our future.
• To connect learning with future opportunities.
• To engage with outside professionals and institutions to promote high aspirations
in pupils.
• To encourage pupils to recognise and connect with their dreams and ambitions.
• To promote the aims and objectives of the school and maintain its philosophy of
education.
21. Encouraging innovation and creative thinking.
• To build entrepreneurial activity into the curriculum, encouraging pupils to show
innovation and creativity in their approach to tasks.
• To accept ‘out of the box’ approaches to tasks and homework.
• To provide pupils with open ended activities that promote initiative and free
thinking.
22. Providing a stimulating, safe and secure environment in which our
community can thrive.
• To maintain a tidy, organised and inspiring classroom environment.
• To be responsible for the day-to-day management of the class and the safety and
welfare of the pupils during on-site and off-site activities.
• To carry out professional duties and to have responsibility for an assigned class.
• To maintain good order and discipline among the pupils, safeguarding their health
and safety.
• To promote the welfare of children and to support the school in safeguarding
children through relevant policies and procedures.
• To assist in keeping the whole school, especially shared areas, tidy and organised.
• To recognise health and safety as a responsibility of every employee, to take
reasonable care of self and others and comply with the School’s Health and Safety
policy and any specific procedures/rules that apply to this role.
23. Ensuring that available resources are targeted at activities that further the
ability of the Trust to achieve its Vision.
• To take responsibility for maintaining stock and advising on replacement of
resources as appropriate.
• To ensure effective use of support staff within the classroom, including parent
helpers.
24. Looking after our world and our environment for future generations.
• To promote environmental sustainability through your teaching.
• To promote environmental awareness in the use of resources in school.
Necessary Skills and Training
• Qualified teacher status (Essential)
• A degree or equivalent (Essential)
• Evidence of in-service Professional Development (Desirable)
• Thorough and up to date knowledge of a range of teaching, learning, and
behaviour management strategies (Essential)
• A thorough understanding of the national curriculum and a range of assessment
requirements and arrangements (Essential)
• Know how to use local and national statistics to help evaluate the effectiveness of
your own teaching (Essential)
• Knowledge and understanding of the implications of equal opportunities,
multicultural education and inclusion (Essential)
• Knowledge and understanding of the potential of computer technology to
enhance the curriculum (Essential)
• Knowledge of the legal requirements, national policy and guidance on the
safeguarding of children (Essential)
Other
• To undertake other duties appropriate to the grading of the post as required
• To prepare appropriate records for the transfer of pupils.
• To liaise with outside agencies when appropriate eg Educational Psychologist