Assistant Headteacher - Full-time

King Ethelbert School, Birchington

• Ref:KCC886-4120-117L
• Posted:21/03/2019
• Pay:L7 - 14
• Start Date:Sep 2019
• App Close Date:03/04/2019 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBA

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REQUIRED FOR

SEPTEMBER 2019

Assistant Headteacher

(L7 — L14)

We are looking for an ambitious, creative, motivated, enthusiastic teacher who is ready for the first stage of senior leadership.  This is an ideal opportunity and a unique environment for an ambitious middle leader to gain excellent, supportive training in leadership and make a significant contribution to an excellent school.  The successful candidate will join a collaborative and committed staff team that have a vision to succeed through a shared focus of teaching and learning. 

We are the most successful non-selective school in Thanet and are a strategic partner of East Kent   Learning Alliance.  We are federated with a local outstanding grammar school and became an academy in 2011.  We are proud to be a model school for Kent, collaborating and developing the most effective techniques to improve student progress. We are an IB World School. In the Sixth Form we offer the new and exciting International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme (CP) which has brought the school international recognition. 

King Ethelbert is located in the picturesque seaside town of Birchington-on-Sea which has some of the most stunning coastal views in the country.  Housing is affordable and the area benefits from a warm and sunny climate.

King Ethelbert School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  This position is, therefore, subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service application. 

Should you require any additional information please contact Debbie Shallcross, Personnel Administrator on 01843 831999 or ask to speak to Kate Greig,  Headteacher or Vicky Willis, Head of School. Pre-application visits and/or discussion are welcome.  To apply please complete our application form available from our website:  www.kingethelbert.com  (under ‘contact us’) and submit a covering letter.  

Applications should be submitted no later than 12.00 noon Wednesday 3rd April 2019

Information about the school

King Ethelbert has an inspiring ethos and a thoroughly motivated staff team.

The Trust began as a federation between King Ethelbert School and Dane Court Grammar School in 2009 and these two schools still share a governing body. Although officially an 11-16 school, through the federation with Dane Court it meant that we were able to start a Sixth Form in September 2011. We are part of the Coastal Academies Trust which is made up of a grammar school, three Thanet high schools and one primary school. All of these schools operate independently and have unique characteristics but good practice is shared helping to drive forward standards at every level: our mission is to make Thanet the centre for excellent education. King Ethelbert was the first school in the country and one of the first schools in the world to offer the International Baccalaureate Careers-Related Programme in the sixth form because it is the best post-16 educational offer in the world. We are a lead school for the IBCP and support 29 other schools in Kent as well as welcome visitors from across the world to see what the IBCP does for our students and how we can share good practice internationally as well as locally; it is very exciting and just what education should be about. The IBCP has values and qualities we want our students to have rather than constantly obsessing over results and this is very important to us. The King Ethelbert leadership team talk about education, the future, the purpose of education and how we want our young people to succeed. It is an open, tolerant, compassionate community and we will use education to transform the lives of our students as well as the economic and social fortunes of our deprived community. We are totally committed to working in collaboration with local schools as well as those in Kent, in the UK and across the world.

King Ethelbert is part of the East Kent Learning Alliance (EKLA) and plays a massive part in developing teaching and learning in all national programmes from NQT to NPQML, NPQSL and NPQH.

In the context of Kent, King Ethelbert is one of the most popular non-selective schools in the county and is filled with first choice students and long waiting lists for each year group. We have a wide range of abilities studying with us including some students who have passed the Kent Test but want to be at their local school where they can be equally successful; such is our reputation.

King Ethelbert is located in the picturesque seaside town of Birchington which has some of the most stunning coastal views in the country. Housing is affordable and the area benefits from a warm and sunny climate.

King Ethelbert School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This position is, therefore, subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service application.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Laura Pease
• Address:Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9BL
• Telephone: (01843) 831999
• Email: laurapease@kingethelbert.kent.sch.uk

Fax: (01843) 831015

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Applicant Letter