Head of School in Harrow

Seva Education provides a quality educational experience for students with special educational needs and disabilities. We now have opportunities for leaders to join our experienced leadership team.

Join our team and you will be given an exciting opportunity to work as a part of an expanding group of schools, where your energy and experience will be valued as a part of our aim to meet the needs of our students. You will enjoy a high degree of job satisfaction as you have the opportunity to apply your skills to working with students in key stage 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Seva Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers, prohibition from teaching and the Disclosure & Barring Service.

Job Title: Head of School

Location: Central Harrow (Northwick)

Reports to: Executive Head Teacher

Salary range: £55000-£70000

Contracted hours: Full Time 42 Weeks (40hrs per week)

Responsible to: Executive Head Teacher/Directorate

Duties and responsibilities

Leadership and management of the school

• Be responsible for the day-to-day running of the school site.
• Manage and organise the school’s environment efficiently and effectively to ensure that it meets the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations.
• Manage the school’s budget and resources alongside the Executive Headteacher
• Produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies for the development of the school and its facilities.
• Recruit, retain and deploy staff appropriately, managing their workload to enable achievement of the vision and goals of the school.
• Ensure that the range, quality and use of all available resources is monitored, evaluated and reviewed to improve the quality of education for all pupils and provide value for money.
• Carry out the responsibilities of this post with due regard to the School’s Equality and Diversity Policy, Safeguarding policies, Health and Safety Policy and all other School policies and procedures.
• Manage middle leaders, developing a professional culture amongst all staff at the school
• Support and challenge staff, dealing with underperformance effectively while making sure staff are given the support to do their jobs well
• Implement the school’s appraisal policy and other management processes and systems
• Support the implementation of school-wide policies and school-level policies
• Undertake self-evaluation and school improvement planning alongside the school-wide strategy to improve areas of weakness in the school
• Support the Executive Headteacher in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff where necessary
• Provide training and continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities for all school staff
• Identify areas of progression and promotion for staff that support succession planning for the school
• Implement strategies which secure high standards of behaviour and attendance and which reflect the school’s agreed values in their response to the needs of vulnerable individuals.
• Challenge underperformance at all levels and ensure effective corrective action and follow-up.
• Co-ordination of submission of written reports for student review meetings.

Teaching and learning

• Work with staff to promote high-quality teaching across all subjects
• Determine, organise and implement a diverse and flexible curriculum which takes account of the needs and aspirations of all pupils.
• Implement an effective assessment framework.
• Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies.
• Identify any areas of weakness in teaching and implement, monitor and review interventions to improve these areas as well as teaching and learning across the school
• Make sure the school’s assessment system is fit for purpose and provides teachers with useful information about pupils
• Monitor the outcomes of pupils and draw out any patterns of underperformance in key groups of pupils, such as disadvantaged pupils
• Make sure standards of behaviour are high to foster an environment in which learning can thrive.
• Reporting on patterns of attendance, safeguarding and behaviour.
• Assisting with the development of appropriate curriculum, linked to the whole school curriculum, for learners ensuring that learning experiences are organised in a progression which supports the development of the individual student around educational targets.
• Drafting curriculum units, schemes of work and programmes of learning (lesson plans) to support effective curriculum delivery.
• Responsible for monitoring the delivery of provision.
• Ensure a consistent and continuous school wide focus on pupils’ achievement which reflects the agreed vision and values, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every child’s learning.
• Develop relevant strategies for improvement.
• Establish creative, responsive, and effective approaches to learning and teaching in line with the schools agreed educational vision and values, which are embedded in a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils understand their individual worth, can become engaged in their own learning and achieve success.

Safeguarding Children and Adults

Seva Care Group ensures all employees have a responsibility to support the School in its duties by:

• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead and lead on strategic safeguarding in the school
• Attending mandatory training on Safeguarding children.
• Being familiar with individual and the School’s requirements under relevant legislation.
• Adhering to all relevant national and local policies, procedures, practice guidance and professional codes.
• Reporting any concerns to the appropriate authority.

Other

• The range of responsibilities listed above is not exhaustive and is subject to change at the direction of the Executive Headteacher and Seva Care Group LTD.
• Any other similar duties appropriate to the level of the post, as may be required by the Executive Head Teacher.