Deputy Head Prospectus - The Wilnecote School 1

JOB DESCRIPTION
Deputy Headteacher – Relationships (Inc. Child Protection)
Leadership Pay spine L18-22
Purpose:
To contribute to the Strategic Leadership of our
school as part of our Strategic Leadership Team
(SLT)
Ensure that our values are put into practice and we
make significant progress across the school
Shadow and support the work of the Operational
Leadership Team
Model operational and strategic excellence
To raise levels of achievement and standards
through high quality line management and the
implementation of a robust and effective climate for
learning across the school
To ensure a consistent response to misbehaviour
across the school
To work to ensure there is a culture of
encouragement and support across the school.
To contribute to the development and leadership of
all teams
To model our values
To ensure schools in the trust are distinctive as
centres of excellence
To deputise for the Headteacher as and when
necessary. In the absence of the Headteacher,
assume overall responsibility for the smooth running
of the school
To ensure the effective and efficient deployment of
resources to achieve value for money
Ensure a positive and purposeful learning centred
partnership with the community
To be the Designated Safeguarding Lead,
responsible for all Child Protection related activity
Reporting to:
Headteacher
Leading:
Pastoral Leaders Team and all other leaders and
staff including Senior Teams in the area of student
relationships.
Principal (Core) Responsibilities
Relationships for Learning
Ensure support systems, team approaches and
leaders’ focus across all the school are robust and
lead to improved teaching and an excellent climate for
learning characterised by mutual respect and excellent
behaviour
To ensure professional learning is provided to support
the implementation of new work in the area of
behaviour and climate for learning
Ensure a consistent response to misbehaviour across
all the school
Support the distribution of leadership throughout the
school by modelling excellence in leadership and
providing professional learning opportunities for
developing and improving self-evaluating leaders.
Ensure effective counselling and wider emotional and
behavioural support for all students
Utilise new technologies and develop a system that
supports the effective management of support and
intervention for emotionally vulnerable students
To advise the Strategic Leadership Team on all
matters relating to developing excellent relationships
for learning
To work with the school's leadership on the
performance of all staff for enhanced student
outcomes.
Coordinate and ensure effective liaison with external
agencies
To gate keep exclusions
Ensure “Keeping Children Safe” is read and lived by
all staff across the school
Ensure, through oversight, the quality and accuracy of
the Single Central Record.
Liaise with the community on all matters relating to
behaviour
Lead the pastoral teams
Lead and develop a counselling and advisory service
within and across the school.
Oversee transition
Lead and develop effective tutor group and PSHE
systems