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Leader of Distinctive Education - Highdown School
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,831 to £62,202 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | Reading, Berkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Reading Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SCH3096 |
Summary
Full time/Part time
Required for September 2025
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
Our vision is that Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is the school of choice for parents in Reading: where success is desirable, demanded and achieved. Highdown is well known locally for the breadth of opportunities it provides student.
This new position builds on our strong co-curricular foundation: looking to bolster engagement from key groups and to develop a bespoke personal development programme for each student. The role will lead on careers, reading, co-curricular, trips and engagement with competition and the House system. The right candidate will champion student leadership and student voice across the school enabling every student to feel a sense of belonging and success.
The Distinctive Education Lead will have a timetabled teaching commitment of 30 periods per fortnight (out of 50), complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others.
Why Highdown School?
• We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
• We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
• Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. Why not join us?
Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025
To apply, please go to the following link: https://www.eteach.com/careers/highdown-reading/
Email: office@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check. As part of our safeguarding procedures, candidates will also be subject to an online record search.
Required for September 2025
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
Our vision is that Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is the school of choice for parents in Reading: where success is desirable, demanded and achieved. Highdown is well known locally for the breadth of opportunities it provides student.
This new position builds on our strong co-curricular foundation: looking to bolster engagement from key groups and to develop a bespoke personal development programme for each student. The role will lead on careers, reading, co-curricular, trips and engagement with competition and the House system. The right candidate will champion student leadership and student voice across the school enabling every student to feel a sense of belonging and success.
The Distinctive Education Lead will have a timetabled teaching commitment of 30 periods per fortnight (out of 50), complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others.
Why Highdown School?
• We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
• We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
• Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. Why not join us?
Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025
To apply, please go to the following link: https://www.eteach.com/careers/highdown-reading/
Email: office@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check. As part of our safeguarding procedures, candidates will also be subject to an online record search.
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