Head Teacher

Job Description

Job Title:

Head Teacher at Market Rasen – LN8 and Boston-PE22

Reports for:

Education Director

Conditions of Service:

VALs terms and conditions

Main Role Responsibilities

School culture

• Establish and maintain the school\’s ethos and strategic direction, in partnership

with those responsible for governance and through consultation with the school

community, including pupils; parents; placing social workers; teaching staff.

• Create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life.
• Uphold ambitious educational standards which prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life.
• Promote positive and respectful relationships across the school community, and a safe, orderly and inclusive environment.
• Ensure a welcoming and respectful culture within the team. A culture that is built on respect; positive behaviours; transparency and passion to continue to improve the educational outcomes for all.

Whole-school organisation, strategy and development

• Provide overall strategic leadership and, alongside others, lead, develop and support the strategic direction, vision, values and priorities of the school.
• Establish, oversee, and evaluate systems, processes, and policies that enable the school to operate effectively and efficiently.
• Produce and implement improvement plans and policies that benefit the development of the school.
• Make use of effective and proportional processes of evaluation to identify and analyse complex or persistent problems and barriers which limit school effectiveness and identify priority areas for improvement.
• Identify, develop and share best practice and achievements. · Develop appropriate evidence-informed strategies for improvement as part of well-targeted plans which are realistic, timely, appropriately sequenced and suited to the school\’s context
• Ensure careful and effective implementation of improvement strategies, which lead to sustained school improvement over time.

Teaching

• Establish and maintain high-quality, expert teaching across all subjects and phases, built on an evidence-informed understanding of effective teaching and how pupils learn.
• Ensure teaching is underpinned by high levels of subject expertise and approaches which respect the distinct nature of subject disciplines or specialist domains.
• Ensure effective use is made of formative assessment.
• Lead and manage teaching and learning throughout the school, including ensuring that a teacher is assigned in the school timetable to every class or group of pupils.
• Deliver strong teaching and governance aligned with clear behaviour support plans; individualised curriculums; aligned with individual EHCP\’s and IEP\’s.
• Ensure the effectiveness of teaching support staff enhances educational outcomes for all pupils.

Curriculum and assessment

• Ensure a broad, structured and coherent curriculum entitlement which sets out the knowledge, skills and values that will be taught.
• Establish effective curricular leadership, developing subject leaders with high levels of relevant expertise with access to professional networks and communities.
• Ensure that all pupils are taught to read through the provision of evidence-informed
• approaches to reading; writing; listening.
• Ensure valid, reliable, and proportionate approaches are used when assessing pupils\’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum.

Health, safety and behaviour

• Promote the safety and wellbeing of pupils and staff.
• Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk.
• Ensure the protection and safety of pupils and staff through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of the duty of care.
• Ensure the health and safety and maintenance of the school building remains aligned with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• Ensure good order and discipline amongst pupils and staff.
• Establish and maintain high expectations of behaviour for all pupils, built upon relationships, rules and routines, which are understood clearly by all staff and pupils.
• Ensure high standards of pupil behaviour and courteous conduct, in accordance with the school\’s Behaviour Policy.
• Implement consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour.
• Ensure that adults within the school model and teach the behaviour of a good citizen.

SEND and additional needs

• Ensure the school holds ambitious expectations for all pupils with SEND and additional needs.
• Establish and sustain culture and practices that enable pupils with SEND and additional needs to access the curriculum and learn effectively.
• Ensure the school works effectively in partnership with parents and professionals to identify the additional needs and SEND of pupils and ensure support and adaptation are provided where appropriate.
• Ensure the school fulfils its statutory duties with regards to the SEND code of practice.

Management of staff and resources

• Lead, manage and develop staff members, including appraising and managing their performance.
• Ensure clear arrangements for linking appraisal to pay progression are followed inline with the company policy; advise the proprietor on pay recommendations for teachers.
• Organise and deploy resources within the school.
• Prioritise and allocate financial resources appropriately, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and probity in the use of public funds.
• Promote harmonious working relationships within the school.
• Maintain relationships with organisations representing staff members, e.g. unions.
• Ensure staff wellbeing is prioritised with an inclusive approach implemented across the team.
• Ensure staff development is prioritised and delivered upon to support career progression.

Professional development

• Promote the participation of staff in relevant CPD.
• Ensure staff have access to high-quality, sustained professional development opportunities, aligned to balance the priorities of whole-school improvement, team and individual needs.
• Prioritise the professional development of all educational staff, ensuring effective planning, delivery, and evaluation which is consistent with the approaches laid out in the \’Standards for Teachers\’ professional development\’.
• Ensure that professional development opportunities draw on expert provision from beyond the school, as well as within it, including nationally recognised career and professional frameworks and programmes to build capacity and support succession planning.
• Participate in arrangements for the appraisal and review of their own performance and, where appropriate, that of other staff members.
• Participate in arrangements for their own further training and professional development and, where appropriate, that of other teachers and support staff including induction.
• Take responsibility for your own CPD, engaging critically with Education research

Communication and working with others

• Consult and communicate with the Education Director, staff, pupils and parents.
• Collaborate and work with colleagues and other relevant professionals within and beyond the school, including relevant external agencies and bodies.
• Forge constructive relationships beyond the school, working in partnership with parents, carers, and the local community.
• Commit to ensuring the school works successfully with other schools and
• organisations in a climate of mutual challenge and support.
• Establish and maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues across other public services to improve educational outcomes for all pupils.

Governance and accountability

• Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, upholding your obligation to give