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Headteacher - Bincombe Valley Primary School
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 6AW |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 5f65c8c7-df7f-4349-82a5-791e428099ed |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
• Degree and Qualified Teacher Status.
• National professional qualification for headship (NPQH).
• Experience of working with/ teaching in Early Years Foundation Stage/ KS1/ KS2 pupils and staff.
• Recent successful leadership experience as a Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher or School Improvement Lead.
• Thorough understanding and experience of Child Protection and Safeguarding and commitment to safeguarding as part of the duty of care
• Experience of leading safeguarding in a school.
• Ability to articulate a clear vision for the future and provide strategic direction for staff, pupils and the community.
• Proven record of inspiring, enabling and motivating others, promoting positive and respectful relationships across the school.
• Ensures a culture of high staff professionalism, holds others to account.
• Upholds ambitious educational standards for all pupils.
• Demonstrates commitment to principles of diversity, inclusion and equality.
• Clear understanding of the curriculum and how to ensure this can be effectively accessed by all.
• Reviews and monitors progress against agreed, measurable targets.
• Absolute commitment to inclusion and to ambitious expectations for all pupils including those with SEND and higher attainers.
• Knowledge and experience of working with children with SEND across the primary phases.
• Able to understand the needs of children with challenging behaviours and develop strategies to successfully manage this.
• Experience of deploying and managing staff to deliver effective outcomes.
• Evidence of formal and/ or informal professional career development for the role of Headteacher.
• Has successfully undertaken approved safer recruitment training.
• Commitment to prioritising the continued professional development of all staff (including themselves) in the best interests of the individual, the team and the school.
• Successful track record of developing staff through effective performance management.
• Have had active involvement in effective school self-evaluation and development planning.
• Have had responsibility for whole school policy development and implementation.
• Experience of leading change effectively and successfully.
• Clear commitment to promoting health and safety and the wellbeing of children and staff.
• Experience of working with stakeholders including governors, school improvement partners, other schools and organisations to improve outcomes for pupils.
• Understands and welcomes the role of effective governance, upholds their obligation to give account and accept responsibility.
• Experience of and contributing to a successful governing body.
• Experience of managing school finances effectively, understanding their contribution to school development and pupil outcomes.
• Passion for education, coupled with ability and enthusiasm to see every child fulfil their potential.
• Excellent communication skills, including written communication. Ability to tailor message to different audiences.
• Visible and approachable, empathetic and enjoys engaging and inspiring children and others.
• Adaptable leadership style, ‘hands on’ when required, balanced with knowing when to delegate.
• Capacity for sustained hard work with energy and enthusiasm.
• Shows resilience and calmness in the face of criticism.
• Demonstrates consistently high standards of principled and professional conduct both within and outside school, upholding the Seven Principles of Public Life at all times.
• Upholds fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
What the school offers its staff
As a maintained school under Dorset Council, we are committed to providing you with
a competitive range of benefits, including:
· We are open to discussing flexible working at hiring point. We believe flexible
working enables us to attract and retain the best talent to enable the very best
outcomes for pupils in our school;
· Annual performance pay rises;
· Learning, career development and progression and opportunities;
· CPD time and resources to enable you to keep a personal portfolio;
· Additional leave and other leave entitlements including:
· Unpaid parental leave;
· Paid compassionate leave;
· Paid time off for some medical appointments;
· A paid volunteering day per year;
· Relocation scheme (if eligible);
· Family friendly policies including; enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
(above statutory provisions);
· Salary sacrifice schemes including the Bike to Work Scheme;
· Membership to the Teachers’ Government Pension Scheme (TPS);
· Health and well-being support with a dedicated Employee Well-being Team;
· Sickness provision - we provide sick leave and pay for periods of absence due to
illness.
We want you to build a rewarding and successful career with us. That’s why we offer
a generous range of benefits. They are designed to help you perform at your best by:
· Providing the work/life balance to support your wellbeing;
· Encouraging your personal and professional growth.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
• Degree and Qualified Teacher Status.
• National professional qualification for headship (NPQH).
• Experience of working with/ teaching in Early Years Foundation Stage/ KS1/ KS2 pupils and staff.
• Recent successful leadership experience as a Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher or School Improvement Lead.
• Thorough understanding and experience of Child Protection and Safeguarding and commitment to safeguarding as part of the duty of care
• Experience of leading safeguarding in a school.
• Ability to articulate a clear vision for the future and provide strategic direction for staff, pupils and the community.
• Proven record of inspiring, enabling and motivating others, promoting positive and respectful relationships across the school.
• Ensures a culture of high staff professionalism, holds others to account.
• Upholds ambitious educational standards for all pupils.
• Demonstrates commitment to principles of diversity, inclusion and equality.
• Clear understanding of the curriculum and how to ensure this can be effectively accessed by all.
• Reviews and monitors progress against agreed, measurable targets.
• Absolute commitment to inclusion and to ambitious expectations for all pupils including those with SEND and higher attainers.
• Knowledge and experience of working with children with SEND across the primary phases.
• Able to understand the needs of children with challenging behaviours and develop strategies to successfully manage this.
• Experience of deploying and managing staff to deliver effective outcomes.
• Evidence of formal and/ or informal professional career development for the role of Headteacher.
• Has successfully undertaken approved safer recruitment training.
• Commitment to prioritising the continued professional development of all staff (including themselves) in the best interests of the individual, the team and the school.
• Successful track record of developing staff through effective performance management.
• Have had active involvement in effective school self-evaluation and development planning.
• Have had responsibility for whole school policy development and implementation.
• Experience of leading change effectively and successfully.
• Clear commitment to promoting health and safety and the wellbeing of children and staff.
• Experience of working with stakeholders including governors, school improvement partners, other schools and organisations to improve outcomes for pupils.
• Understands and welcomes the role of effective governance, upholds their obligation to give account and accept responsibility.
• Experience of and contributing to a successful governing body.
• Experience of managing school finances effectively, understanding their contribution to school development and pupil outcomes.
• Passion for education, coupled with ability and enthusiasm to see every child fulfil their potential.
• Excellent communication skills, including written communication. Ability to tailor message to different audiences.
• Visible and approachable, empathetic and enjoys engaging and inspiring children and others.
• Adaptable leadership style, ‘hands on’ when required, balanced with knowing when to delegate.
• Capacity for sustained hard work with energy and enthusiasm.
• Shows resilience and calmness in the face of criticism.
• Demonstrates consistently high standards of principled and professional conduct both within and outside school, upholding the Seven Principles of Public Life at all times.
• Upholds fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
What the school offers its staff
As a maintained school under Dorset Council, we are committed to providing you with
a competitive range of benefits, including:
· We are open to discussing flexible working at hiring point. We believe flexible
working enables us to attract and retain the best talent to enable the very best
outcomes for pupils in our school;
· Annual performance pay rises;
· Learning, career development and progression and opportunities;
· CPD time and resources to enable you to keep a personal portfolio;
· Additional leave and other leave entitlements including:
· Unpaid parental leave;
· Paid compassionate leave;
· Paid time off for some medical appointments;
· A paid volunteering day per year;
· Relocation scheme (if eligible);
· Family friendly policies including; enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
(above statutory provisions);
· Salary sacrifice schemes including the Bike to Work Scheme;
· Membership to the Teachers’ Government Pension Scheme (TPS);
· Health and well-being support with a dedicated Employee Well-being Team;
· Sickness provision - we provide sick leave and pay for periods of absence due to
illness.
We want you to build a rewarding and successful career with us. That’s why we offer
a generous range of benefits. They are designed to help you perform at your best by:
· Providing the work/life balance to support your wellbeing;
· Encouraging your personal and professional growth.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.