Birkbeck Primary School is seeking an ambitious, inspirational and highly skilled Assistant Head Teacher to join our committed team and play a pivotal role in shaping the next chapter of our school’s journey due to the successful promotion of the previous postholder to Deputy Head Teacher. We are at an exciting point of growth: having already established our core values of equality, integrity, respect and resilience, we are now evaluating and refining our ethos and vision to ensure they fully reflect these principles. The successful candidate will play a key role in embedding our values consistently across all aspects of school life as we move forward. This is an exciting opportunity for a committed school leader who is passionate about delivering excellence, driving improvement and ensuring that every child thrives and belongs to our school community.
We Are Looking For an Assistant Head Teacher Who Will:
• Work in strategic partnership with the Head Teacher and the leadership team to drive cohesive, strategic and aligned leadership
• Model excellence in professional conduct, communication and leadership
• Build strong relationships with pupils, staff, families and the wider community, including governors and the local authority, ensuring that every individual feels a sense of belonging within our community
• Be an excellent classroom practitioner
• Lead with warmth, integrity and resilience
• Demonstrate a deep commitment to inclusion with a strong belief that every child can achieve
• Be committed to developing the workforce through the use of instructional coaching
• Be committed to developing as a leader, with a passion for their own professional development and that of others
What We Offer
• A vibrant, welcoming school with enthusiastic children and staff
• A supportive leadership team
• A committed staff team with a passion for improving outcomes and their own practise
• A culture that values professional development and instructional coaching
• The opportunity to make a significant, lasting impact on the direction of the school
Your Impact Will Include:
• Ensuring every child in your class, year group, phase and the school makes progress as well as ensuring that they feel that they belong to our school community
• Driving high-quality teaching across all subjects and phases
• Championing every child
• Shaping curriculum design and ensuring coherence and high standards
• Managing staff and resources effectively
• Supporting school improvement priorities and long term strategy – having areas of responsibility where you can drive and sustain change to develop the school
• Strengthening relationships with families, governors, the LA and community partners
• As a Deputy DSL, support the DSL in embedding a strong, vigilant and inclusive safeguarding culture, ensuring systems, policies and staff practice consistently protect pupils and support early identification of need.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more information. Visits to the school are welcome and highly recommended. If you are unable to visit the school an informal discussion about the role can be arranged with the Head Teacher instead. These can be arranged by emailing the School Business Manager, Kristian Saunders, [email protected]
Birkbeck Primary School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of our children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, references, online suitability checks and other employment checks.
This post is a customer-facing position and falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English Language Requirement for Public Sector Workers. The school has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification.