Assistant Headteacher - Full-time

Hartsdown Academy, Margate

• Ref:KCC886-4172-177L
• Posted:16/01/2017
• Pay:£52,405 to £57,809 (dependent on experience)
• Start Date:Sep 2017
• App Close Date:27/01/2017 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Assistant Headteacher

with responsibility for Science

Responsible To:          Headteacher

Responsible For:         Science

Location:                    Margate, Kent

Salary:                       £52,405 to £57,809 (dependent on experience)

Start Date:                 September or earlier

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced middle leader with passion and enthusiasm to join our team at Hartsdown Academy. We are at a new phase of improvement and development and we are looking for experienced leaders to be part of this exciting journey.

This an exciting opportunity to make your mark rebuilding a department and putting science at the centre of the school. You will be ambitious, well qualified, an outstanding classroom teacher and possess strong leadership, management and interpersonal skills, with a proven record of raising achievement.    

The successful candidate will have whole-school teaching and learning responsibility in the area of Science, to include:

• Ensuring all students make rapid and sustained progress
• Developing KS4 curriculum and embedding in the department
• Managing staff to ensure outstanding teaching and learning within the department
• Building innovative and creative learning that ensures every child achieves at or above national expectations
• Opportunities for other whole school leadership dependent on experience and interest
• In return we will offer you:

• Being part of a new leadership team, with a new head teacher committed to making Hartsdown an amazing school
• Real opportunities to innovate and lead
• An exciting environment where you can really make a difference
• Being part of a small local trust that is totally committed to its staff and children
• Significant opportunities for CPD and development
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For a full job description, person specification and application form, please contact Claire Titherington, Office Manager by calling 01843 227957 ext. 1060 or by e-mailing titheringtonc@hartsdown.org

Closing date: 12 Noon, Friday 27^th January 2017

Hartsdown Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will need to undertake a DBS Employment Check.

Information about the school

Hartsdown Academy is here to be a great school that builds a stronger and happier community so that people have amazing lives. We look to provide our children with "education for an amazing life".

It is the love and commitment that our staff show our children that enables their success and we promise that staff will be supported, encouraged and respected. We want Hartsdown to be an enjoyable and rewarding place to work.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Mrs C Titherington
• Address:George V Avenue, Margate, Kent, CT9 5RE
• Telephone: (01843) 227957
• Email: titheringtonc@hartsdown.org