Deputy Headteacher

Job Description

Deputy Headteacher

Pay Range: Leadership Pay Scale point L18-L22

We are seeking to appoint a Deputy Headteacher to join our Senior Leadership Team. The position will suit you if you have recent comprehensive experience of senior leadership or a post of equivalent responsibility within the education sector.

The start for this post is April or September 2019.

We're looking for you if you have:

· Experience of leading whole school change and innovation in an educational context;

· Substantial and sustained professional development in support of leadership at senior/whole school level;

· Ability to inspire and motivate students and staff;

· Ability to create a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all students can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning.

(The full details can be found in the attached Job Outline and Role Specification).

What we can offer:

· A competitive Salary;

· Employee benefits: Pension Scheme, Holiday Pay, Employee Assistance Programme;

· A full continuous Professional Development Programme;

· Training Opportunities through our membership of The Sigma Trust.

Additional Information:

We are a very successful school, which has a 'Good' Ofsted rating and positive Progress 8 scores for the past 3 years. The Stanway Schoolis expanding; all the buildings are new, including brand new performing arts block which opened in September 2018.

For additional information about our school, please visit The Sigma Trust website http://www.sigmatrust.org.uk/academies/stanway.asp

Please note that applications can only be accepted on the attached Sigma Trust Application form.

Closing Date: 31st January 2019

The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. A disclosure/status check will be sought from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.

Information about the School

About The Stanway School The Stanway School is a heavily over-subscribed 11-16 comprehensive school with over 1,300 students currently on roll, the vast majority of whom live in Stanway and the surrounding villages to the west of Colchester. The school is a specialist school in Humanities and Maths & Computing. We have undertaken a huge rebuilding programme and the Creative Arts block, the latest phase of our expansion project, opened in September 2018. By 2021, all year groups will be full with 280 students following this expansion of the school buildings. This is an exciting time to join an already successful school that is looking to continually improve practice: staff are enthusiastic and many take part in voluntary research groups into key areas of school life; students are well-behaved and achieve results above expectation; the culture of the school is calm and purposeful. In March 2012 The Stanway School converted to an academy and in September 2016 joined the newly formed Sigma Trust, a partnership of schools located in North East Essex covering both Colchester and Tendring.

Jonathan Bland Headteacher The Stanway School

Safeguarding The Sigma Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.