Assistant Head of Site (IB)
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 December 2025 |
| Location: | Oldham, Lancashire, OL8 3PH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | e6714df6-4066-40ba-a78d-63333345ce66 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
- A proven track record of high-quality teaching of pupils with PMLD/CLDD and social communication needs across the age range.
- Knowledge and understanding of the educational needs of PMLD and CLDD pupils, including the current research, pedagogical approaches and specific successful interventions
- Experience of overcoming barriers to learning.
- Involvement in curriculum development.
- Understanding of assessment strategies and their role in maximising pupil progress and raising standards of achievement
- Experience of providing appropriate pastoral support for individual pupils including an understanding of appropriate strategies for supporting positive behaviour and emotional regulation.
- Understanding of high-quality teaching and the ability to model this for others and support others to improve their practice.
- Experience of successful line management and staff development.
- Appropriate knowledge of statutory safeguarding requirements and their effective implementation.
- Knowledge of specialist resources and approaches to teaching children with PMLD/CLDD including communication strategies and techniques such as Intensive interaction, sensory stories etc.
- Knowledge and experience of specific medical interventions which may be required for PMLD/CLDD such as suction, tracheostomy etc.
- Experience of planning and implementing individual programmes for students with PMLD/CLDD using specific interventions
- Experience leading transition processes for PMLD/CLDD pupils across key stages
- Experience using ICT innovatively to enable PMLD/CLDD pupils to access the curriculum successfully
- Enthusiastic and committed approach to working with children with PMLD/CLDD to get the best outcomes and promote the ethos and values of the school.
- Highly effective teacher who can work as a role model to staff
- Self-motivated individual with ability to communicate a vision and inspire and sustain a positive, solution focused attitude in others.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills and ability to build effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including parents and specialist professionals
- Ability to lead and enhance the performance of a staff team to secure high quality provision for children with autism
- Ability to foster commitment from staff
- Proactive individual with ability to work under pressure and use own initiative to prioritise effectively.
- Ability to remain calm in challenging situations
- Empathetic and sensitive manner
- Ability to analyse and use data to design, deliver and evaluate strategies to improve pupil progress.
- Commitment to safeguarding and equality.
- Commitment to maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- Proactive approach to own professional learning and development.
What the school offers its staff
TOIL scheme, Occupational Pension Scheme, Occupational Sickness Scheme
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.
- A proven track record of high-quality teaching of pupils with PMLD/CLDD and social communication needs across the age range.
- Knowledge and understanding of the educational needs of PMLD and CLDD pupils, including the current research, pedagogical approaches and specific successful interventions
- Experience of overcoming barriers to learning.
- Involvement in curriculum development.
- Understanding of assessment strategies and their role in maximising pupil progress and raising standards of achievement
- Experience of providing appropriate pastoral support for individual pupils including an understanding of appropriate strategies for supporting positive behaviour and emotional regulation.
- Understanding of high-quality teaching and the ability to model this for others and support others to improve their practice.
- Experience of successful line management and staff development.
- Appropriate knowledge of statutory safeguarding requirements and their effective implementation.
- Knowledge of specialist resources and approaches to teaching children with PMLD/CLDD including communication strategies and techniques such as Intensive interaction, sensory stories etc.
- Knowledge and experience of specific medical interventions which may be required for PMLD/CLDD such as suction, tracheostomy etc.
- Experience of planning and implementing individual programmes for students with PMLD/CLDD using specific interventions
- Experience leading transition processes for PMLD/CLDD pupils across key stages
- Experience using ICT innovatively to enable PMLD/CLDD pupils to access the curriculum successfully
- Enthusiastic and committed approach to working with children with PMLD/CLDD to get the best outcomes and promote the ethos and values of the school.
- Highly effective teacher who can work as a role model to staff
- Self-motivated individual with ability to communicate a vision and inspire and sustain a positive, solution focused attitude in others.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills and ability to build effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including parents and specialist professionals
- Ability to lead and enhance the performance of a staff team to secure high quality provision for children with autism
- Ability to foster commitment from staff
- Proactive individual with ability to work under pressure and use own initiative to prioritise effectively.
- Ability to remain calm in challenging situations
- Empathetic and sensitive manner
- Ability to analyse and use data to design, deliver and evaluate strategies to improve pupil progress.
- Commitment to safeguarding and equality.
- Commitment to maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- Proactive approach to own professional learning and development.
What the school offers its staff
TOIL scheme, Occupational Pension Scheme, Occupational Sickness Scheme
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.