Head of English - Full-time

Hadlow Rural Community School, Hadlow

Ref:KCC886-4009-115T
Posted:22/10/2020
Pay:MPS/UPS/(Negotiable) + TLR1
Start Date:January 2021
App Close Date:28/10/2020 at 09:00
Interviews:29th & 30th October 2020

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Head of English

Dates: Apply by 28^th October 2020. Start date: January 2021

Salary: MPS/UPS/ (Negotiable) + TLR1. PLUS up to £2000 Retention Bonus.

Location: Kent

Contract Type: Part Time/Full Time Negotiable

Contract Term: Permanent

Due to the successful promotion of the current post holder to an Assistant Headteacher Position, we are now looking to appoint a self-motivated, innovative and exceptional Head of English who has the necessary ambition and expertise to lead a strong and high performing English department on its next stage of development.

This is an exciting post for an excellent practitioner and offers an outstanding opportunity for potential future career development (over 70% of leadership positions have been appointed from internal progression in the last 5 years).

The role provides the perfect opportunity for a candidate new to leadership and wishing to take their next step into Middle leadership within a small and supportive environment or, for more experienced candidates, it will provide the opportunity to take on whole school responsibilities supporting any potential aspirations for Senior Leadership in the future.

The school ethos centres on providing an educational experience suited to our students and the local community and whilst academic progress is of the highest importance to us, this is equally matched by our promotion of vocational and enrichment opportunities, ensuring the development of every child as a whole. This has been strongly supported through our most recent Ofsted inspection, February 2019 in which the school received its second ‘Good’ rating.

If you feel that you are a highly motivated, inspirational teacher who has the expertise and experience to play a vital part in the future of our School then we would very much like to hear from you.

For more details or an informal discussion with the Headteacher please contact the PA to the Headteacher via email on Heidi.Whitmore@hrcschool.org.

If you wish to apply to join Hadlow Rural Community School in the next phase of its exciting future; please see the website for further details www.hrcschool.org/.

Applicants should send to school

A fully completed application form,
A letter of application identifying how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the requirements of the Person Specification; and how you will contribute to making Hadlow Rural Community School an outstanding place of learning.

Letters should be addressed to the Headteacher and presented on no more than 2 sides of A4, font size 11. Please send this to: Niall.McGuinness@hrcschool.org

The deadline for applications is 9.00am, 28^th October 2020

Interviews will take place on the 29^th and 30^th October 2020

Information about the school

Hadlow Rural Community School (HRCS) opened in September 2013 and offers a unique educational opportunity to students across the Weald of Kent; located within an idyllic 20-acre rural campus, situated in the historic village of Hadlow.

HRCS is a popular, oversubscribed School with a current roll of just under 400 students. The School relocated to a £7million new build in 2016 and has developed a strong reputation both locally and beyond for enabling its young people to excel and flourish; providing an exciting, vibrant and dynamic experience in academic and land based vocational studies. The school is heavily oversubscribed and has, for the last four years, achieved one of the highest percentages of preferences for Year 7 places, for non-selective schools, across Kent.

The success and popularity of the school has been based on our ethos of providing an educational experience suited to our students and the local community and, whilst academic progress is of the highest importance to us, this is equally matched by our promotion of vocational and enrichment opportunities, ensuring the development of every child as a whole.

Positive, productive, and supportive relationships with all stakeholders is a key element of the school and this is further underpinned by maintaining small class sizes of 25-26 students across the school, with many Key Stage 4 option subjects averaging class sizes of 15 students.

High expectations are promoted across every aspect of the school and all members of HRCS are expected to be kind, caring and considerate, showing honesty and integrity and applying 100% effort in all their endeavours, supporting our school motto of ‘Effort Achieves’.

Job Contact Information

Name:Heidi Whitmore
Address:Tonbridge Road, Hadlow, Kent, TN11 0AU
Telephone: 01732 498120
Email: heidi.whitmore@hrcschool.org

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