Job Description: Headteacher
 
Salary Grade:   Leadership Pay Range (L32 – L38)
 
Overall Job Purpose:
 
To lead and promote the internal organisation and management of the school and to provide a first-class education for all pupils. Carry out the professional responsibilities and duties of a Headteacher subject to teachers’ current conditions of employment as contained in the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document, the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, the minimum standards for Qualified Teacher Status and other current legislation.
 
General: To comply with the local authority’s Corporate Safeguarding Policy and the safeguarding duties and responsibilities which that policy places on every employee, aligning with the core values of the Authority which includes supporting children, adults who may be at risk and their families to keep them safe and healthy.
 
Main Duties / Responsibilities:
 
STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHOOL:
 
Provide strategic leadership and develop and support the strategic direction, vision, values and priorities of the school.
Lead by example and provide inspiration and motivation for the school community.
Generate the vision, ethos and policies for the school that promote high standards of achievement and meet equality objectives.
Create and implement a strategic development plan, underpinned by sound financial planning, within a local and national context, which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring that pupils achieve high standards and that the teaching is effective.
Support and motivate all staff to achieve priorities and targets set by the school for itself.
Ensure that the management of the school, including finance and administration, supports the school's policies, vision and objectives.
Monitor and review all aspects of achievement, priorities, targets, and policy and take action as necessary.
 
TEACHING AND LEARNING: 
 
Create an environment that ensures effective learning across the National Curriculum and to promote high standards of achievement, behaviour, and discipline.
Determine and organize the curriculum and monitor and evaluate its effectiveness.
Monitoring the quality of teaching and pupil attainment including analysis of performance data.
Develop links and effective partnerships with parents, other schools, educational institutions, and the wider community, including business and industry, to enhance teaching and learning and pupils' personal development.
Contribute, as appropriate, to the teaching at the school.
 
LEADING AND MANAGING STAFF:
 
Develop positive working relationships with and between all staff and governors.
Implement and maintain effective strategies for the management of all staff;
Plan, appraise and support the work of staff groups, delegate appropriately and clearly evaluate outcomes
Enable staff to develop their role by identifying development needs, ensuring an effective programme of entry into continuing professional development.
Enable performance management systems to operate effectively and address appraisal requirements
 
EFFECTIVE DEPLOYMENT OF STAFF AND RESOURCES: 
 
Work with governors and colleagues to recruit suitably qualified staff.
Ensure that all staff and governors understand their respective roles and responsibilities; 3. Deploy and develop staff to make the most effective use of their skills, expertise, and experience and to ensure the effective management of the school in the absence of the Headteacher.
Manage and organize the use of school accommodation effectively and efficiently.
Manage and organize groups to ensure effective learning and teaching and that children's personal development needs are met.
Establish spending priorities and monitor the effectiveness of expenditure within the LEA's financial regulations.
Monitor the use of resources to deliver value for money, within the financial context of the school.
 
ACCOUNTABILITY: 
 
Provide the Board of Governors with information and advice so that it can meet its responsibility to ensure proper accountability throughout the school.
Ensure that the financial accounts are maintained in accordance with the LEA's financial regulations and that the Governing Body is effectively informed to enable them to make appropriate decisions and be accountable.
Create an ethos where all staff acknowledge their accountability.
Give account for the school's performance to internal and external agencies through analysis of performance data and relevant reports; use such analysis to inform planning at all levels.
Provide parents, the community, and other interested parties with relevant information on all aspects of the school.
Ensure that the school meets the legal requirements of equal opportunities legislation and that the school operates within the spirit of the law as well as to the letter of the law.
Ensure that the school complies with statutory requirements in relation to education and other relevant legislation.
 
STRENGTHEINING THE COMMUNITY: 
 
Encourage and address cooperation between all interested parties including the LEA.
Encourage and address collaboration with other schools.
Encourage and address the sharing of good practice.
Develop strategies to encourage parents and carers to support their children's learning.
Ensure that the school plays a central role in the community.