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Overview And Responsibilities

Assistant Head of School – Aurora Beeches School

Location: Cranborne, Dorset

Salary: £44,305.00 - £47,706.00 (Teacher PayScale L1 – L4)

Hours: 40 hours per week.

At Aurora Beeches, we believe in giving young people the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, we support students with a range of additional learning needs to create and meet their own goals.

The Main Purpose Of The Role

As our Assistant Head of School, you will work with the Principal & Head of School in all aspects of leadership and management and to take responsibility for managing and developing learning and teaching, curriculum, careers & work experience, assessment and enrichment throughout the designated phases of the school.

You will take a central role in assisting the Principal & Head of School, to develop our school in accordance with its shared values and our school development plans

Key Duties

• To develop positive relationships within the school, wider Aurora Team and externally which support the running and developing of the school towards and sustaining outstanding.
• Work with the Principal and Head of School to ensure that the school offers a high quality, exciting, engaging, well resourced, differentiated and well matched curriculum for all students.
• Spend up to 0.6 of post (to be directed by the Head of School) of working time classroom based demonstrating and modelling good practice, and ensuring ‘quality teaching first’.
• Positively encouraging, coaching and mentoring and supporting training and development for all members of the team.
• To take lead responsibility for ensuring the best possible curriculum offer, provision, well-being, progress and achievement for all student especially through enrichment, creative learning, extended services, partnerships and collaboration.
• Play a key role in the overall smooth running of the school

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team

Skills And Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

Qualifications

• Recognised teacher training qualification – Cert Ed. / PGCE / QTS or QTLS / Diploma in Teaching (essential)
• Management/leadership qualification (desirable)
• Accredited training in specific areas of special education, e.g. Autism, Dyslexia etc. (desirable)

Experience

• Successful management of complex scenarios and conflict resolution
• Effective team management and working collaboratively and effectively with others.
• Communicating effectively to a wide range of different audiences though a range of different mediums.
• Experience of holding responsibility for and turning policy into effective and successful practice.
• Leadership of a significant area or phase or inclusion, including responsibility for raising standards across the whole college.
• Proven track record of excellent creative and structured teaching within special needs environment.
• Effective relationships working successfully with a range of external agencies

Benefits And Additional Information

What’s on offer?

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Life assurance
• Teachers’ Pension
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

If you are interested in this role then please apply online and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact /?

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

#Reed FTE: £44,305.00 - £47,706.00