Acting Head Of School 12 Month Secondment Opportunity E3690 Drighlington Primary School Job In Leeds

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Acting Head of School – 12 month Secondment Opportunity (E3690) - Drighlington Primary School

Drighlington Primary School, Moorland Road, Drighlington, BD11 1JY

Acting Head of School – Secondment Opportunity

Pay Range: L13-17 Start Date: September 2024

The Governing Body of Drighlington Primary school is looking to appoint an Acting Head of School to work alongside our experienced Executive Headteacher and supportive Governing Body, from September 2024 for one year. This is an excellent professional development opportunity for an individual with a track record of successful senior leadership experience working towards headship. As Acting Head of School, you will work closely under the direction of the Executive Headteacher and ensure the school is managed and effectively organised on a day-to-day basis. Working with others you will be responsible for evaluating the schools performance to identify priorities for continuous improvement and raising standards.

Situated on the border between Leeds, Bradford & Kirklees, Drighlington Primary School is a friendly, inclusive school of over 400 children where the values and ethos of a high level of care for every individual underpin our daily work. Through our personalised curriculum, positive teamwork and collaboration with families we ensure that each child reaches their full potential.

Our children and local community are looking for someone who:

• Has passion for learning, is aspirational and skilled at unlocking every child’s potential to help them succeed
• Has the ability to engage warmly and collaboratively with families and the wider community
• Can work with the Executive Headteacher to enhance our curriculum and extended provision to meet the changing needs of our community
• Can lead by example and can motivate staff on their journey of continuous development and improvement
• Is an excellent communicator with high levels of emotional intelligence
• Is imaginative, creative and resilient at meeting new challenges

Our school offers:

• Enthusiastic, happy and motivated children
• A friendly and welcoming school for our children, staff, families and the wider community
• A committed staff team and strong and active PTA
• A commitment to support you and your professional development.
• A supportive Governing Body
• An attractive, safe and positive learning environment
• Strong local primary school partnerships

You are warmly invited to visit our school and are welcome to come and find out more about us, please contact the schoolofficeon 0113 2853000to arrange a convenient time:

Assessments and interviews will take place on: 6th June

The Governors would like expressions of interest detailing why you would be the perfect candidate for their school. Please emailthis toeduc.headteacher@leeds.gov.uk . A recruitment pack containing application form will then be sent for completion.

Drighlington Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments made are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history and an on-line search will be conducted. This includes only information publicly available on-line.

We passionately believe that a diverse workforce where everyone feels welcomed and valued will be a better place for children and our staff. We want a staff body which reflects the population of Leeds and understand the benefits this will bring.

Job Description

Job Title: Head of School

Reports to: Executive Headteacher

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Head of School should establish a culture that promotes excellence, equality and high expectations of all pupils. Ensure that the school is managed and effectively organised on a day-to- day basis and help ensure the school is led effectively at a strategic level.

Accountable to the Executive Headteacher and Governing Body, the Head of School provides vision, leadership and direction for the school and ensures that it is managed and organised to meet its aim and targets. The Head of School, working with others, is responsible for evaluating the school’s performance to identify the priorities for continuous improvement and raising standards.

THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS

The appointment is subject to the current conditions of employment for Deputy Headteachers contained in the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document, the 1998 School Standards and Framework Act, the required standards for Qualified Teacher Status and other current legislation.

Delegate Function and Responsibilities

• Accountable for the effective day to day leadership, management and internal organisation of the school.
• Effectively complete the requirements for performance management of staff
• Coach, Mentor and motivate staff to build a culture of high commitment, standards and drive for success.
• Liaise with Executive Headteacher and Governors in the recruitment and selection of teaching and support staff.
• Work with the Executive Headteacher to manage the school’s budget in line with the schools procedure, school improvement plan and strategic vision
  • Ensures the vision for the school is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Shaping the future

• Motivates and works with others to create a shared culture and positive climate consistent with the agreed educational vision and values for the school.
• Works with individual staff and teams to translate the school vision into agreed objectives, ensuring that the schools planning, policies and procedures promote and sustain school improvement.

Leading teaching and learning

• Implement strategies which secure high standards of behaviour and attendance.
• Ensure that learning is at the centre of strategic planning and resource management.
• Be a good role model to all teaching staff within the school and reflect a high level of professional teaching standards.
• Demonstrates and articulates high expectation and set stretching targets for the whole school.
• Monitors, evaluates and reviews classroom practice and manages improvement strategies.
• Analyse and interprets school data to inform classroom practice across the school.
• Significant consideration of Pupil Premium: working alongside Executive Headteacher, oversee investment, provisions and outcomes.
• Ensure efficient and effective feedback, all feedback and marking to pupils is in line with Marking Policy.

Developing self and working with others

• Regularly review their own practise, set personal targets and take responsibility for their own personal development.
• Ensure staff have access to high-quality, sustained professional development opportunities, aligned to balance the priorities of whole-school improvement, team and individual needs.
• Treat all people fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect to create and maintain a positive culture. Manage conflict effectively, seeking positive outcomes.
• Ensure effective planning, allocation, support and evaluation of work undertaken by teams and individuals, including clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities.
• Motivates and challenges all staff to maintain high expectations of behaviours.
• Develops and maintains effective strategies and procedures for staff induction, professional development and performance review.
• Give and accept support from colleagues, governors and the local authority.
• Have regard for the well-being of themselves and others, managing own workload to promote a healthy work-life balance and encouraging and enabling other likewise.

Managing the organisation

• In partnership with the Executive Headteacher manage the school financial and human resources effectively and efficiently to achieve the school’s educational goals and priorities.
• Recruits, retains and deploys staff appropriately, managing their workload to enable achievement of the vision and goals of the school.
• Implements evidence-based school development plans and policies for the organisation and its facilities.
• Ensures that policies and practices take account of national and local policies and initiatives.
• Implement successful performance management processes with all staff.
• Manages the school environment to ensure that the school meets all the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations.
• Manage staff absences, conduct return to work and managing attendance meetings and liaise Executive Headteacher on areas of concern.
• Ensure high standards of pupil behaviour and courteous conduct in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy
• implement consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour.

Securing accountability

• Managers staff roles and ensures that responsibilities are clearly defined, understood and agreed.
• Implement successful performance management processes with all staff.
• Carry out and ensure other leaders carry out planned monitoring activities including learning walks, lesson observations, book scrutinies and pupil learning conversations.
• Establish and sustain professional working relationship with those responsible for governance.
• Develop and present a coherent, understandable and accurate account of the school’s performance to a range of audiences including governors, parents and carers and local authority representatives.
• Ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties.
• Ensure the school fulfils its statutory duties with regard to the SEND code of practice.

Strengthening the community

• Works with other agencies to ensure learning experiences and opportunities for pupils are integrated into the wider community.
• In partnership with the Executive Headteacher, the Head of School is responsible for the vision of the school to the local and wider community and beyond.
• Builds the reputation of the school with the outside community.
• Ensure the school works effectively in partnership with parents, carers and professionals,identify the additional needs and special educational needs and disabilitiesof pupils, providing support and adaptation where appropriate
• Creates and maintains partnerships with parents and carers to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development.
• Seek opportunities to invite stakeholders (parents, carers, community figures, businesses and other organisations) into the school to enhance and enrich the school and its pupils and their value to the wider community.

Child protection

• Ensure that the child protection policies and procedures adopted by the governing body are fully implemented and followed by all staff.
• Ensure that sufficient resources and time are allocated to enable staff to discharge their child protection related responsibilities effectively.
• Ensure the protection and safety of pupils and staff through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of the duty of care and as the Designated Safeguarding Leadfulfil the statutory duties as defined in KCSIE 2023.

The range of responsibilities listed above is not exhaustive and is subject to change at the direction of the Executive Head Teacher.

Person Specification – Head of School

You should show clearly in your application how your knowledge, experience and skills are relevant to the requirements of the post.

Shaping the Future

Essential knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Implements an improvement plan across a key stage area or classroom, identifying the priorities and evaluating the impact
• Works with and motivates teams and individuals to implement changes across the school
• Ability to identify peoples strengths and develop their skills for the benefit of the school

Leading Teaching and Learning

Essential knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Demonstrates high expectations for deliverance of Teachers Standards
• Knowledge of assessment tools to monitor teaching and learning.
• Knowledge of how to use data to monitor pupil progress to identify effective interventions to ensure pupils maintain achieve high standards.
• Ability to identify excellent classroom practice to enable teachers to improve, through effective feedback.

Developing Staff and working with others

Essential knowledge, experience, and skills

• Regularly reviews own practice and continually participates in quality CPD.
• Uses CPD to motivate, enthuse and develop staff
• Ability to plan and allocate work effectively including clear delegation of tasks.
• Ability to coach and mentor staff.
• Ability to manage own workload to promote healthy work-life balance.

Managing the Organisation

Essential knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Recruits, retains and manages a range of school staff.
• Ability to implement successful performance management processes with all staff.

Desirable knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Implements changes to staffing structures
• Manages the school’s environment in line with health and safety regulations.
• Manages staff absences.

Securing Accountability

Essential knowledge, experience, and skills(App/SP):

• Holds people to account for what they have agreed to deliver.
• Works effectively with the governing body to fulfil statutory duties.
• Provides performance data to parents, governors and school improvement officers.
• Ability to ensure high standards of pupil behaviour.

Desirable knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Managing staff through support plans and capability

Strengthening the Community

Essential knowledge, experience, and skills (App/SP):

• Builds relationships with community groups, outside agencies and other schools which create innovative learning experiences for pupils
• Works with parents and carers to improve pupil achievement.

Desirable knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Builds the reputation of the school within outside communities.

Safeguarding/Child Protection

Essential knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Is aware and able to manage effective Safeguarding/Child Protection policies and procedures.
• Ability to deal with sensitive issues in a supportive and effective manner

Qualifications and training (App/SP).

• Qualified Teacher Status or other educational qualification.
• NPQH
• NCSL Leading from the middle (or another NCSL leadership programme)

Personal qualities and attributes.

• Be a role model for the Nolan Principles.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively.
• Identify areas for improvement.
• Child centric demonstrating the desire for positive outcomes for every child.
• Work with integrity and professionalism.
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Ability to works to deadlines.
• Enthusiastic and optimistic
• Empathetic and compassionate
• Excellent problem solving/analytical skills.
• Self Awareness (knowledge of strengths and areas of developments).

The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.