Head Teacher

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Location: Derby Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week Salary: £68,400 - £75,331 (L16-L20), depending on experience

This SEN school is part of a UK wide group of Special Needs Schools. The 6th largest provider in the UK

This SEN schools Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

As part of their growth strategy, they are opening a brand-new Primary and Secondary Special Education school in early 2025 with a capacity of 72 students aged between 5-19. It is anticipated that the student cohort will have a primaryprimary diagnosis of ASC/ADHD.

They are seeking a Head Teacher to join in September 2024 to support with the planning, creation, registration, opening and running of the new provision. The building will be completely redeveloped, and work is already underway to design the look and feel of the school to ensure it fulfils its potential of being an amazing learning environment. The facilities will allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve.

Your Skills/Experience & Qualifications

• Qualified Teacher Status with further professional qualification in a relevant area. Candidates with Head Teacher qualification (such as NPQH/SNLP) or a willingness to gain such a qualification preferred.
• Proven experience as a Head Teacher within a specialist school environment
• Up to date knowledge of current DfE guidance including Independent Schools Standards (ISS)
• Knowledge and understanding of SLD and ASD issues
• Up to date knowledge of local and national government initiatives and legislation
• Quality assurance experience (such as lesson observations and performance management)
• Strong and effective leadership qualities
• Superb communication and stakeholder management skills

Benefits

• Training and Development

Within this schools group, they strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. They offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising they have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for the cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year they compare the market rates of pay and rewards to ensure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. They also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important and they have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for £1,000

As an employee; we’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

The Role

The Role of the Head Teacher is to provide vision, strategic leadership, direction and an effective culture for the school to the highest professional standard whist maintaining its success and providing a high quality of education which reflects the vision and values of the SEN schools group.

In line with all Head teacher roles; you will ultimately be accountable for all areas of operational and educational performance within the School, as well as the financial performance and management of education and support staff.

To achieve in this role, you will be someone who inspires creativity and collaboration, a strong leader and a passionate advocate for your students, finding ways to deliver educational outcomes that make a real difference to them.

As this is a new school in the development stage, you will lead of the design and development of the school curriculum in order to meet the needs of the student cohort. You will also be instrumental in the recruitment and development of an effective team to secure the success of what we anticipate being an outstanding school.

Integritas Education Recruitment and School Staffing Ltd are acting as an employment businesses for this position.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.