Headteacher

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Headteacher ensures high standards of provision, aligning all activities with the River Tees Multi‑Academy Trust’s strategic goals, statutory requirements, and school improvement plans. We work closely with our commissioning Local Authorities and schools so being able to build and maintain these relationships is vital. Every one of our schools has a different context so the Headteacher has responsibility for delivering approaches that we know work for all schools while also understanding the needs of individual learners, families, partners and commissioners.

We use research‑informed, evidence‑based reflective practice to develop our workforce. We care about the well‑being of our workforce and are committed to fair approaches to managing the team.

This role involves building and leading a high‑performing team, fostering a culture of excellence, efficiency, and compliance with the Academies Handbook. Our Headteachers collaborate to develop practice to help us change lives. As Headteacher you will also work with other school leaders, Trustees, the Trust central team and commissioners to create a solution‑focused environment that enables schools to flourish.

Our cohort of learners have multiple barriers to successful engagement in education. We want them all to thrive through strong attendance, positive relationships and building their skills and knowledge through our Currency, Character and Community curriculum focus. A thorough knowledge of safeguarding practice helps our Headteachers to support learners, their families and our staff team. Some learners do not attend as well as they should and the Headteacher needs to ensure that everything possible is being done to improve the attendance of each and everyone.

• Support the CEO, governors and Trustees in developing the school to provide the best possible education for our learners.
• Work with the cross‑trust team to ensure that all areas of delivery including attendance, inclusion, SEND, teaching and learning, curriculum, behaviour, safeguarding, personal development and leadership and management are effective.
• Be reflective and analytical about the needs of learners and the strategies that have the greatest impact on attendance, attitudes and progress and successful outcomes.
• Work to a high standard in implementing agreed policies, priorities and expectations across the whole team.
• Promote wellbeing, diversity and inclusion and a culture of teamwork, in which the views of all members of the school community are valued and taken into account.
• Lead the development and co‑ordination of a meaningful CPD process that supports the whole team to perform at their best.
• Undertake self‑evaluation and engage fully with Trust quality assurance.
• Produce and monitor the school development plan in partnership with the CEO and other Headteachers.
• Enable learners to make effective transitions including return to mainstream schools and progression into appropriate next steps.

• Create, maintain and develop positive and effective working relationships both with and between young people, colleagues, parents and carers, governors, trust members and other stakeholders.
• Recognise where relationships between others are not progressing well and take proactive measures to improve those relationships.
• Develop an effective working relationship with governors, trustees and the Executive Team.
• Ensure that policies, procedures and expectations are shared and communicated with staff, pupils and parents/carers.
• Develop relationships with other schools & academies to ensure smooth transitions for pupils.
• Build and maintain productive partnerships with our commissioners, including Local authorities and schools.
• Promote effective multi‑disciplinary working with a range of other support agencies.
• Work to extend our outreach offer in line with the three‑tier AP model.

• Ensure that the curriculum offer is ambitious for all learners, in line with River Tees Multi‑Academy Trust’s 3C…