Headteacher

Position: Headteacher

Location: Hereford

Hours: 40 hours per week, term time

Salary Details: £50,000

We are looking to appoint an inspirational, ambitious Headteacher to join our dedicated and enthusiastic team at Hereford school. Are you passionate about making a difference at a senior level? Do you want to work in a forward-thinking school and be part of an innovative and successful Senior Leadership Team? Then we want to hear from you now.

Why work for us:

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to progress in your career.
• Training opportunities either face to face or online.
• Wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need.
• You will be a part of a dedicated team of professionals who will offer you clear guidance and mentor you in to this role.
• Supportive management and senior leads.
• We offer full induction, paid for DBS, friendly family atmosphere and the opportunity to progress with one of the UK`s biggest care providers.

Hereford school:

Cambian Hereford School is an independent, DfE-registered, co-educational school, providing specialist education for up to 20 students, aged 11-19.

The School has an excellent reputation for providing good quality education and securing good results in public examinations. The success of the school is based on the flexible and supportive approach taken to provide the highest standards and very personalised education tailored to individual student needs.

Main Tasks:

• Strategic direction and development of the school
• Provide inspiring and purposeful leadership for the staff and pupils.
• To work in partnership with the company, staff, stakeholders and parents generating the ethos and values which will underpin the school.
• To develop and embed clear Vision & Values for the school, with accompanying aspirational aims and objectives for all learners, and to secure a thriving and positive school community.
• To continue to develop, implement and review a School Development Plan which will secure continuous school improvement.
• To continue to implement a robust self-evaluation process across the school, including the formulation of an effective self-evaluation document.
• To ensure school compliance with the Independent Schools Standards at all times.
• To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school and respond and report to the company as required.
• To ensure that management, finances, organisation and administration of the school supports its vision and aims.
• To ensure that school policies and practices take account of national, local and school requirements.
• To monitor, evaluate and review the impact of policies, priorities and targets of the school in practice, and act if necessary.
• To ensure that all those involved in the school are committed to its aims, motivated to achieve them, and involved in meeting long, medium- and short-term objectives and targets which secure the educational success of the school.
• To engage with the external continuous improvement framework implemented by the National Lead as the primary model for internal support and challenge to the school.
• To engage with the corporate Care4 framework for sustainability, including the development and implementation of the school’s One Planet Living sustainability action plan, and community engagement strategy, and ensuring sustainability is embedded across the school community.

Cambian is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.