Job Description
General Functions
To be responsible for the internal organisation, management and control of the school. In carrying out his/her duties, a Headteacher shall consult, where this is appropriate, with the Authority, the Governing Body, the staff of the school and the parents of its pupils.
Professional Duties
The professional duties of a Headteacher shall include:
School Aims
• Formulating the overall aims and objectives of the school and policies for their implementation.
• Appointment of staff.
• Participating in the selection and appointment of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school.
• Management of staff.
• Deploying and managing all teaching and non-teaching staff of the school and allocating particular duties to them.
• Ensuring that teachers at the school receive information they need in order to carry out their professional duties effectively.
• Enabling advanced skills teachers to fulfil their outreach duties.
• Reporting to the Chair of Governors annually on the professional development of all teachers at the school.
• Liaison with staff unions and associations.
• Maintaining relationships with organisations representing teachers and other persons on the staff of the school.
Curriculum
• Determining, organising and implementing an appropriate curriculum for the school, having regard to the needs, experience, interests, aptitudes and stage of development of the pupils and the resources available to the school.
Review
• Keeping under review the work and organisation of the school.
Standards of teaching and learning
• Evaluating the standards of teaching and learning in the school and ensuring that proper standards of professional performance are established and maintained.
Performance management, training, development and induction of staff
• Supervising and participating in arrangements made in accordance with regulations for the appraisal of the performance of teachers in the school.
• Ensuring that all staff in the school has access to advice and training appropriate to their needs, in accordance with the policies of the maintaining Authority and Governing Body.
Threshold/advanced skills teacher assessment
• Contributing as required to the assessment of threshold and advanced skills teachers’
standards.
Management information
• Providing information about the work and performance of the staff employed at the school where this is relevant to their future employment.
Pupil progress
• Ensuring that the progress of pupils of the school is monitored and recorded.
Pastoral care
• Determining and ensuring the implementation of a policy for the pastoral care of the pupils.
Discipline
• Ensuring the maintenance of good order and discipline at all times during the school day
(including the midday break) when pupils are present on the school premises.
Relations with parents
• Making arrangements for parents to be given regular information about the school curriculum, the progress of their children and other matters affecting the school, so as to promote common understanding of its aims.
Relations with other bodies
• Promoting effective relationships with persons and bodies outside the school.
Relations with the Governing Body
• Advising and assisting the governing body of the school in the exercise of their functions.
Relations with the Authority
• Providing for liaison and co-operation with the officers of the maintaining authority, making such reports to the authority in connection with the discharge of his/her functions as they may properly require, either on a regular basis or from time to time.
Relations with other educational establishments
• Maintaining liaison with other schools and further education establishments with which the school has a relationship.
Resources
• Allocating, controlling and accounting for those financial and material resources of the school which are under the control of the headteacher.
Premises
• Making arrangements for the security and effective supervision of the school buildings and their contents and of the school grounds.
Absence
• Arranging for a deputy headteacher or other suitable person to assume responsibility for the discharge of his/her functions as headteacher at any time when he/she is absent from the school.
Teaching
• Participating, to such an extent as may be appropriate having regard to his/her other duties, in the teaching of pupils at the school, including the provision of cover for absent teachers.
The governing body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Headteacher Person Specification
Essential / DesirableEducation/training / • DfE recognised teaching qualification
• NPQH or enrolled on course
• Evidence of continuing professional development relating to school leadership and curriculum development
• Enhanced DBS / • Evidence of further professional study
• Management and
Leadership Training
Relevant experience / • Leadership experience
• Recent active teaching experience
• Proven success in raising attainment and achievement, and determination in keeping them raised
• An understanding of, and commitment to, promoting and safeguarding the welfare of pupils
• Proven knowledge and understanding of, and ability to manage, a delegated budget
• Experience of setting targets and monitoring performance in order to raise pupil achievement
• Capacity to understand and provide for the whole range of pupils’ needs and abilities
• Understanding and experience of the importance of critical self evaluation to improve outcomes / • Successful headship of a primary school
• Experience of working in a multicultural environment
Relevant skills and attributes / • Vision to chart the optimum future
development of pupils at Mildmay Junior School
• Inspirational leadership styles
• Ability to think and plan strategically and to respond flexibly to change
• Effective communication skills, written and oral, to a variety of audiences
• Good interpersonal skills
• Sensitivity to the importance of the School in our community
• Ability to foster links with other schools;
locally, nationally and internationally
• Ability to motivate and develop commitment among teaching and non-teaching staff
• Ability to build on success
• Ability to lead and manage people as individuals and to develop the common goals of a team
• Ability to organise work, prioritise tasks, make decisions and manage time effectively, / • Commitment to encourage the development of ICT
• A commitment to residential visits
recognising the importance of work/life balance.
• Ability to reflect on aspects of School life which promote high achievement and good behaviour
• A sense of humour, energy and enthusiasm
• ICT literate
Knowledge / • Knowledge of current trends in educational development and management
• Familiarity with current strategic national and local issues in education / • Knowledge of relevant educational and Equal Opportunities legislation
Personal qualities / • Flair for inspiring and sustaining a culture of high achievement for all
• Ability to propel the school’s vision and values forward, and promote its achievements to the local and wider communities
• Capacity to relate to all pupils from whatever background in order to motivate them to achieve their potential
• Commitment to the County's objective of
'narrowing the gap' for disadvantaged children
• Integrity, commitment, enthusiasm, energy to persevere and succeed / • Commitment to continuing personal development
• Creativity and the ability to engage in critical reflection