Assistant Headteacher
| Posting date: | 21 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW15 5RT |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | bb823d06-abea-4c62-9d0c-f03b8e6bec44 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Leadership:
Provide strategic leadership for a designated key stage, ensuring excellent outcomes and experiences for all pupils.
Support the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher in driving the school’s vision, values and strategic priorities.
Serve as a key liaison and support figure for Heads of Department across the school.
2. Provision & EHCP Implementation:
Oversee the quality of provision across the key stage, ensuring it is tailored, ambitious, and meets the needs of pupils with complex SEND.
Monitor the implementation and impact of EHCP outcomes, ensuring a holistic and person-centred approach.
Collaborate with class teachers, therapists, and support staff to ensure consistent delivery of EHCP targets and high quality, personalised learning experiences.
3. Defining and Maintaining Policies:
To work with the Governors, Headteacher and Heads of School to establish and review policies in line with national and local expectations, and monitor their implementation.
To report regularly to governors on the status and implementation of policies.
To work with the leadership team to ensure the school fulfils its statutory duties with regard to the SEND code of practice.
4. Behaviour:
To work as part of a team to establish and sustain high expectations of behaviour for all pupils, built upon relationships, rules and routines, which are understood clearly by all staff and pupils.
To work as part of a team ensure high standards of pupil behaviour in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy.
To work as part of a team to implement and demonstrate consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour.
To work as part of a team to model exemplary conduct that will ensure that adults within the school model and teach the behaviour of a good citizen.
5. Curriculum & School Development:
Lead a designated curriculum area, ensuring it is well-sequenced, accessible, and reflects best practice in SEND education.
Drive a whole-school development priority (e.g. Continued Professional Development, behaviour, assessment), ensuring it is embedded across departments.
Support innovation and excellence across the curriculum, and share effective practice through coaching and collaboration.
6. Teaching, Learning & Staff Development:
Develop outstanding classroom practice and lead by example in upholding high standards of teaching and learning.
Support staff development through mentoring, coaching, and training.
Contribute to the recruitment, induction, and performance management of staff within your areas of responsibility.
7. Monitoring & Evaluation:
Lead and contribute to quality assurance activities including learning walks, planning reviews, lesson observations, and data analysis.
Evaluate and report on pupil progress and provision across the key stage and curriculum area.
Use data and qualitative evidence to inform continuous improvement planning.
8. Governance and accountability:
To understand and welcome the role of effective governance, upholding their obligation to give account and accept responsibility in areas assigned to them by the Executive Headteacher.
To establish and sustain professional working relationship with those responsible for governance.
To ensure that staff know and understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account.
To ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties with the areas assigned to them by the executive Headteacher.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
• Highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
• Strong senior leadership support
• Opportunities to develop area of specialism
• Partnership for training and development with schools in Wandsworth and beyond.
• An outstanding training programme
• Access to employee wellbeing scheme
• Opportunities for promotion within the school
• Cycle 2 Work
• Smart Schools Benefits (which include Lifestyle Savings, Wellness support, saving scheme for everyday expenses)
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. Please note that we do not accept CVs.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Leadership:
Provide strategic leadership for a designated key stage, ensuring excellent outcomes and experiences for all pupils.
Support the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher in driving the school’s vision, values and strategic priorities.
Serve as a key liaison and support figure for Heads of Department across the school.
2. Provision & EHCP Implementation:
Oversee the quality of provision across the key stage, ensuring it is tailored, ambitious, and meets the needs of pupils with complex SEND.
Monitor the implementation and impact of EHCP outcomes, ensuring a holistic and person-centred approach.
Collaborate with class teachers, therapists, and support staff to ensure consistent delivery of EHCP targets and high quality, personalised learning experiences.
3. Defining and Maintaining Policies:
To work with the Governors, Headteacher and Heads of School to establish and review policies in line with national and local expectations, and monitor their implementation.
To report regularly to governors on the status and implementation of policies.
To work with the leadership team to ensure the school fulfils its statutory duties with regard to the SEND code of practice.
4. Behaviour:
To work as part of a team to establish and sustain high expectations of behaviour for all pupils, built upon relationships, rules and routines, which are understood clearly by all staff and pupils.
To work as part of a team ensure high standards of pupil behaviour in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy.
To work as part of a team to implement and demonstrate consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour.
To work as part of a team to model exemplary conduct that will ensure that adults within the school model and teach the behaviour of a good citizen.
5. Curriculum & School Development:
Lead a designated curriculum area, ensuring it is well-sequenced, accessible, and reflects best practice in SEND education.
Drive a whole-school development priority (e.g. Continued Professional Development, behaviour, assessment), ensuring it is embedded across departments.
Support innovation and excellence across the curriculum, and share effective practice through coaching and collaboration.
6. Teaching, Learning & Staff Development:
Develop outstanding classroom practice and lead by example in upholding high standards of teaching and learning.
Support staff development through mentoring, coaching, and training.
Contribute to the recruitment, induction, and performance management of staff within your areas of responsibility.
7. Monitoring & Evaluation:
Lead and contribute to quality assurance activities including learning walks, planning reviews, lesson observations, and data analysis.
Evaluate and report on pupil progress and provision across the key stage and curriculum area.
Use data and qualitative evidence to inform continuous improvement planning.
8. Governance and accountability:
To understand and welcome the role of effective governance, upholding their obligation to give account and accept responsibility in areas assigned to them by the Executive Headteacher.
To establish and sustain professional working relationship with those responsible for governance.
To ensure that staff know and understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account.
To ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties with the areas assigned to them by the executive Headteacher.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
• Highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
• Strong senior leadership support
• Opportunities to develop area of specialism
• Partnership for training and development with schools in Wandsworth and beyond.
• An outstanding training programme
• Access to employee wellbeing scheme
• Opportunities for promotion within the school
• Cycle 2 Work
• Smart Schools Benefits (which include Lifestyle Savings, Wellness support, saving scheme for everyday expenses)
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. Please note that we do not accept CVs.