Deputy Headteacher: Pastoral and Community

Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and highly effective senior leader to join Hatch End as Deputy Headteacher. We are proud of our collaborative leadership team who work tirelessly to improve the outcomes and life chances of our young people. This Deputy Headteacher role is vital to the provision of a strong culture for learning, high-quality pastoral support, improving standards of achievement for all pupils and the promotion of pupils' personal development and wellbeing.

This role will be responsible for pastoral care, behaviour, culture, community and transition and will embed our 'We Care' values, set high behavioural expectations, engage with our community and lead our pastoral team.

• Provide excellent leadership and management, enabling the school to realise its strategic intentions.
• Support and deputise for the Headteacher in securing the continued improvement and success of the school.
• Articulate, lead and manage the school's behaviour and pastoral support teams and systems, training staff and monitoring implementation.
• Lead or line manage the anti-bullying, equalities, transition and community strategies.
• Leadership of the student council and oversight of the student leadership programme.
• Direct the assembly and ECC (extra-curricular provision in the curriculum) programmes.

• Be an outstanding classroom teacher with a proven and demonstrable track record of success at GCSE and A Level.
• Have sustained and substantial senior leadership experience with an emphasis on pastoral work.
• Have a good understanding of current educational developments and contextual safeguarding.
• Be able to analyse, interpret and use data to support pastoral interventions.
• Have energy, stamina and a sense of humour.

Hatch End High School is a warm, happy and academically successful school in Harrow with a large and highly successful Sixth Form. We are proud of being a high performing, inclusive community school which welcomes all cultures, faiths and beliefs. We know that the high expectations, outstanding teaching and creative dedication of staff combined with the enthusiasm, discipline and ambition of students is what makes Hatch End a fantastic place to study, develop and excel.

We have an uncompromising and relentless focus on the quality of teaching and learning and on professional development so we can fulfil our vision to enable all young people to make exceptional progress and achieve outstanding outcomes, so they are able to live fulfilling and successful lives. Our school ethos, WE CARE:
Co-operation, Ambition, Respect, Empathy, underpins everything we do.

– Hatch End High School Values and our inclusive ethos; the highest expectations of academic achievement for all students; first class pastoral care, support and guidance; equipping our students with an understanding of themselves, an appreciation of the world around them and a desire to innovate and solve problems as active contributors to society.

Continuing professional development for all staff is at the core of everything we do, and you would be joining an organisation which offers many training opportunities, clear staff development and a supportive and experienced senior team.

• In joining Hatch End High School you can expect to work in an environment where teaching and learning is at the heart of everything we do; and where all staff work as a community to support our students to fulfil their potential.
• The school has a comprehensive professional development programme tailored to individual needs, from ECT to middle and senior leadership; new staff are supported and guided by highly skilled and experienced colleagues, and by partners in external organisations.
• Staff have a wide range of opportunities to collaborate and develop their career within the Harrow Collegiate Alliance and the Teach West London Training Hub.
• Staff are afforded many benefits and rewards such as a staff wellbeing programme including free Pilates classes, eye tests and the Cycle to Work Scheme.
• We have excellent transport links with central London, Hertfordshire, Brent and Barnet.

We CARE:
Co-operation, Ambition, Respect, Empathy