Assistant Headteacher - Teaching & Learning in Northwich

What skills and experience we're looking for:

• Degree Teaching qualification
• Successful teaching experience, including the teaching of subject to GCSE level.
• Record of excellence in the classroom
• Strong track record of one’s own continuing professional development
• Evidence of delivering improvement through others
• Previous Middle Leader experience
• Experience of managing and leading others
• Successful experience of leading effective CPD
• Substantial knowledge of recent developments in areas of responsibility
• Evidence of essential knowledge of Pedagogy and research and how this applies in practice.
• Ability to effectively lead a team to ensure the best outcomes for students
• A secure understanding of line management and appraisal and experience in both
• Ability to successfully deploy, lead and train on a wide range of effective Teaching and Pedagogical strategies.
• Successful experience that demonstrates the ability to confront and resolve problems and effectively innovate and manage change
• Experience in the effective management of finances and deployment of resources
• Ability to innovate and implement ideas
• Demonstration of the understanding of curriculum and how this role impacts on the whole school curriculum
• Fully committed to the Christian ethos of the school
• Inspirational
• Ability to forgive and move on
• Ability to challenge and support students and staff
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Ability to establish excellent working relationships with staff, students, parents/carers and other stakeholders
• High expectations
• Commitment to school improvement
• Team worker
• Independent worker
• Resilient under pressure
• Excellent attendance
• Flexible
• Willingness to consent to apply for an enhanced disclosure DBS check
• Commitment to demonstrating a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people, including the mental health of young people

What the school offers its staff:

• Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• An Employee Assistance Programme with a helpline providing support and advice on personal and professional issues.
• Working Rewards provides discounts and offers on all the major retailers as well as access to salary sacrifice schemes
• Access to an on-site fully equipped gym.
• Staff events and sporting activities to support the school family system.
• Optional staff collective worship.
• Daily free tea and coffee as well as other refreshments throughout the school year
• Ample Free Staff Car Parking including electric car charging spaces

Further details about the role:

We are delighted to welcome applications for the role of Assistant Headteacher – Teaching and Learning at Hartford Church of England High School. Our school is a great place to work! We have brilliant students, talented and committed staff and supportive parents. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in June 2023 demonstrated that we are a good and improving school; almost three years on, we are well on our way to making Hartford Church of England High School an exceptional place to learn and work. Our school is increasingly popular with a growing reputation for its ethos, values and academic excellence.

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.