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Deputy Headteacher - Full-time

Thamesview School, Gravesend

  • Ref:KCC886-5407-311L
  • Posted:03/04/2019
  • Pay:Leadership Scale L18-22
  • Start Date:Sep 2019
  • App Close Date:03/05/2019 at 09:00
  • Interviews:2 consecutive days during w/c 13th May 2019

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Deputy Headteacher (New/Additional postion due to SLT expansion)

Salary: £60,755.00 - £67,008.00 pa, (Leadership Scale L18-22)

Close date: 3rd May 2019 at 9 am

Date of Interviews: 2 day process during w/c 13th May 2019

Position start date: September 2019

Are you a dynamic and ambitious leader with a record of school improvement looking for a new challenge? Or an experienced leader with the potential to support our school at an exciting stage in its development?  We are looking for someone who can build on the significant improvements made by the Senior Leadership Team in recent years and take the school to new levels of success. You’ll find a well-kept physical environment and a culture of high aspiration. We expect our students to Believe – Achieve – and Succeed. The school is expanding, with a new Sixth Form studying the International Baccalaureate

Career-related Programme (IBCP) and new forms added at Year 7 in the last few academic years. This presents a tremendous opportunity to further develop our vibrant school community. We want our students, whatever their background or ability, to have the best possible all round education to prepare them to take their place in society. We pride ourselves on our inclusive approach and seek to promote positive values in all aspects of school life. For the right candidate the role provides an exciting challenge with significant opportunities for professional and personal development. If you believe you can make a positive contribution to our students’ success and support our culture and values with passion then we look forward to receiving your application.

We encourage candidates to visit our school and meet our brilliant staff and students for themselves prior to applying. Please contact the Headteacher’s PA, Sheila Thompson on 01474 538112 to book a tour of the school.

Completed applications should be emailed to our HR Manager, Kay McGowan at k.mcgowan@thamesview.kent.sch.uk or sent by post to Thamesview School, Thong Lane, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4LF marked for her attention.

Our school and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Information about the school

Thamesview School is a place where every member of school is encouraged to have the highest aspirations in their personal and academic lives. Our students are encouraged to become globally aware citizens who embrace high moral standards.

We place Teaching and Learning at the very core of everything we do and are committed to empowering students to become:

• aspirational • confident in learning • adaptable • creative • responsible

Our school emphasises the importance of core skills and the importance of the fundamental skills involved, particularly in English and maths, and in all other curriculum areas. Our rich curriculum enables each student to make progress on a pathway which is right for them. This means that the school offers both academic and vocational qualifications so that each individual is fully prepared to maintain strong habits of learning throughout their lives and to be fully prepared to participate in society as lifelong learners.

Thamesview School cares for its students so that everyone feels safe and is able to learn. Our ethos of care and respect permeates through every aspect of school life. Students are encouraged to act with integrity and honesty in every aspect of their lives and to ensure that they leave school with a tenacity to succeed and willingness to make positive contributions to our society.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.