Are you committed and passionate about SEN Education? We are looking for the next school leader to join our established team. This is a real opportunity to make a difference for the children that we teach. This is a role which combines strategic development with operational delivery.
Sutherland House School is a non-maintained special school for autistic children and young people aged 3-19. The school is in the heart of the Creative Quarter in the City Centre located near the Sneinton Avenues market area.
At Sutherland House school Positive Behaviour Support and Person-Centred approaches are of paramount importance and you will be able to contribute to the continued strategic and operational development of this. We offer small Class groups, high staffing ratios and excellent opportunities for training and continued professional development.
Main Purpose of Job:
As the Assistant Head Teacher and member of the School Senior Leadership Team, you will work with the Head Teacher to inspire, motivate, lead, and manage the infrastructure, environment, and resources of Sutherland House School.
You will support the Head Teacher in the translation of Autism East Midlands and Sutherland House School vision into clear objectives that promote and sustain measurable school development. You will communicate a shared vision, and ethos in support of the delivery of a strategic plan which reflects the needs of the school as part of Autism East Midlands in its wider context.
You will provide leadership across Autism East Midlands education services (Sutherland House School) ensuring the continuing operation, development, and improvement of the services and education provided, working in collaboration with the Governing Body, Board of Trustees and Autism East Midlands senior management team.
As Assistant Head Teacher you will share responsibility with the Senior Leadership Team for ensuring that the school continuously improves for the benefit of its pupils and their community. You will have responsibility for the delivery of a defined area of the School Development Plan.
As a member of the School Senior Leadership team, you will take leadership responsibility and act as designated point of contact for responding to and dealing with complaints. As a member of the School Senior Leadership Team, you will deputise for the Head Teacher in their absence.
You will support the Head Teacher in the development of a culture and a defined area of school improvement that is aspirational and ambitious for our students. With a defined teaching commitment, you will lead by example. You will draw up, maintain and implement the school development plan. You will keep up to date with national changes in education policy and in particular SEND policies. You will monitor and evaluate the content and effectiveness of the school, in partnership with the Head Teacher
You will develop a structured programme of activities to enable a continuous process of monitoring, evaluation and review of classroom practice and promoting improvement strategies, challenging performance, and ensuring quality assurance.
You will have clear line management responsibility, and you will set high expectations and challenging targets, monitoring effectiveness and evaluating learning outcomes and pupil’s progress.
You will ensure positive behaviour support is integral to the running of the school and is implemented thoroughly into all aspects of school life.
You will establish creative, effective approaches to teaching and learning, which are responsive to the individual needs of each pupil. Where appropriate you will liaise and develop partnerships with alternative providers to ensure that students are able to access an individualised person-centred curriculum.
You will contribute to a school-wide focus on pupils’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every child’s learning.
As a member of the school leadership team, you will play a critical role in the translation of its vision into clear objectives that promote and sustain measurable school development; ensuring that the school continuously improves and is aspirational for our students.
You will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with the School Governing Body, Board of Trustees and Autism East Midlands’ Senior Management Team.
You will have responsibility for the defined area of the school which will be decided following appointment. You will also receive designated safeguarding lead training to act as a deputy safeguarding lead alongside the designated safeguarding lead.
Previous experience with autistic children and young people or teaching in an additional needs environment at any age is desirable but full training and support will be given. We also welcome applications from colleagues who have experience of teaching core subjects.