Vacancy

Employment type: Full-time
Salary: £54,091 - £73,559
Close date: 13/11/2020 at Midday
Date of Interviews: 03rd & 04th December 2020
Position start date: April 2021

This is an opportunity to lead an outstanding school with a dedicated workforce who are impassioned to strive for excellence. You will be supported by a strong Senior Leadership team, Key Stage Leads, Year Leaders, SEN and FLO. Every staff member from the site staff, admin staff to the teaching team has a passion for their role and the value they add to the school by living The Newington Way and following fundamental British Values. 

The school has excellent facilities including a dedicated FLO room, SEN room, Dining hall, Staffroom and admin wing. A fully equipped recording studio, where our award winning Vadio sessions are recorded, edited and broadcast, is just one of the outstanding facilities the school has to offer. Music, Technology, Spanish and P.E are taught by subject specialists allowing staff PPA+ time to focus on our excellent bespoke Newington curriculum. 

The school motto is Ambition, Achievement and Aspiration. We are looking for an excellent communicator who personifies those qualities, can convey them passionately whilst expanding upon the outstanding elements of the school. 

We are looking for: 

• An outstanding and reflective practitioner who has teaching and learning at the heart of everything they do and can holistically lead the school. 

• An empathetic, empowering, inspirational leader who appreciates the benefits of collaboration and who can work as part of a team of outstanding senior leaders within our trust, conveying and instilling their passion to the entire school. 

• A leader who can coach their outstanding team to continue to strive for excellence in all they do, find the areas that can still be improved upon and realise that extra potential.

• Someone who can easily convey their passion that absolutely every child can succeed and is able to promote an environment where this happens.

• Making arrangements for parents to be given regular information about the school curriculum, the progress of their children and other matters affecting the school, so as to promote common understanding of its aims.

• Someone who is committed to the schools safeguarding policies and their responsibilities for this. 

What we can offer: 

• Fantastic facilities – the school has a fully equipped recording studio, large playing fields, 3 activity playgrounds, sports cage, 3 playgrounds and a nursery. 

• A passionate staff who hold the children at the centre of all they do. 

It is important to maintain and develop the relationships with our local partners and schools, as well as nurseries, charities and other local and regional organisations and groups.

The governing body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.