Head Teacher
Job Summary
The head teacher will be responsible for the education of all pupils, management of staff, and for school policy making.
Job Description/Requirements
Responsibilities
Day-to-day management, organisation and administration of the school in order to create a productive, disciplined learning environment.
Specifically, the head teacher’s main responsibilities involve:
Formulating overall aims and objectives for the school and policies for their implementation
- Working with governors and senior colleagues to deploy staff effectively and recruit new staff
- Meeting with other education professionals, and representing the school at conferences and other events outside the school in the local community and nationwide
- Motivating, training and disciplining staff
- Ensuring the motivation of the pupils
- Ensuring an infrastructure is in place in which all members of staff and pupils feel they can register their opinions on serious matters, and have a route via which they can communicate problems to senior members of staff
- Ensuring the good financial management of the school
- Ensuring the school is up-to-date with innovations, from teaching practices to new technologies
- Reporting on the school’s performance to a range of audiences, including governors, the Local Education Authority, the local community, Ofsted and others
- Managing accommodation (e.g. classrooms) effectively to meet the needs of the curriculum and Health & Safety requirements
- Assuming responsibility for other legal matters in the day-to-day running of the school
- Assuming responsibility for pastoral care of pupils where necessary
- Resolving major disciplinary issues with pupils, including working in partnership with the police and social services.
Qualifications
Must have QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) with 15 years’ experience in teaching. This could be gained through a PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education), a GTP (Graduate Training Programme), RTP (Registered Teacher Programme) or Teach First.
In addition, several years’ teaching experience is usually necessary.
Must be conversant with EYFS, Montessori and British Curriculum.
Must be Female within the age of 45 and 50 years old.
Must have thorough knowledge in activity based, playway methods of teaching.
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