Job Description
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We are seeking to appoint a talented, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Assistant Headteacher to lead the Trust as "Attendance Champion".
Salary: Academy Leadership Scale 7 - 11 £57,809 - £63,642 (actual starting salary £57,809 with performance based increments)
Position Available:Start Date Negotiable
Closing Date:Monday 30th September 2024
You will join an ambitious, bold and collegiate team who work hard and enjoyleading the school community. 'Staff are well supported and proud to work here'. (Ofsted 2023)
The appointed Assistant Headteacheris responsible for leading, championing and improving student attendance across The Academies, having an oversight of academy attendance on a day-to-day basis and developing effective systems and structures that ensure the Academy's strategic aims are achieved. The Assistant Headteacher will implement effective systems and build close and productive relationships with parents/carers and students to discuss and tackle attendance issues.
To be considered for this position you must have:
- Qualified Teacher Status.
- Leading, championing and improving attendance across The Academies
- Leading, coordinating, line managing and performance managing the attendance team and resources
- Setting a clear vision for improving and maintaining good attendance
- Having a strong grasp of absence data and oversight of absence data analysis
- Producing reports and identifying key insights
- Regularly monitoring and evaluating progress in attendance
- Establishing and maintaining effective systems for tackling absence, ensuring they are adhered to by all staff
- Liaising with pupils, parents/carers and external agencies, where needed, including the local authority to ensure best practice is implemented
- Building close and productive relationships with parents/carers to discuss and tackle attendance issues
- Creating intervention or reintegration plans in partnership with pupils and their parents/carers
- Implementing the most up to date DfE guidance on attendance for the Trust and the academies / schools within the Trust
- Experience as a successful team leader.
- Ability to foster effective relationships with stakeholders and external agencies.
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please download and complete our application form and, on a separate document please demonstrate how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the Key Responsibilities criteria on the job description (1500 words maximum). Please return both documents to our Recruitment Coordinator, Dani Silk-recruitment@basildonacademies.org.uk
The Basildon Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to DBS and health checks.
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications or are able to fill the position faster than originally anticipated.
The Basildon Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to DBS and health checks.
Information about the School
The Basildon Academies is focused upon developing the whole child; our curriculum has been developed to enable our students to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills so that they will become lifelong learners. This includes opportunities for linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technical, human, social, physical and artistic learning so that students make progress in a wide range of subjects.
We set high expectations of all our students and this, in turn, ensures we create a positive climate for learning in which every student can reach their full potential. Our Academy is a calm, orderly and purposeful environment where students enjoy their learning, make good progress and feel safe.
Our Sixth Form is a major part of the academy with the structure modelling itself on developing independent learning skills like those seen in universities which allows students to continue their studies in their specialist subject areas. Students are very much encouraged to become mature adults being engaged in many aspects of the life of the academy which further develops those much needed skills to go on into university or the world of work.