Deputy Headteacher
Langley Grammar School
Slough
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- Salary:
- Main scale (London Fringe) L20-24 (currently £80,857 to £89,033)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 26 September 2024
Job overview
Main scale (London Fringe) L20-24 (currently £80,857 to £89,033)
Full-time, permanent role
Required for January 2025
Our current headteacher is leaving the school at the end of this term and one of our two deputy headteachers has been promoted to the role from January 2025. We are therefore seeking an enthusiastic and committed leader to join our team with the experience, skills, and initiative to help us develop our highly successful school still further.
Are you someone who:
- can motivate staff and inspire students to build on their current achievements?
- will continue to raise standards of attainment and students’ personal development?
- has excellent interpersonal skills and a commitment to collaborative working?
- has the drive and energy to implement our strategic vision?
- is innovative and able to effectively deliver change?
We can offer you:
- a welcoming, caring, and stimulating environment with excellent teaching facilities;
- students who strive to maximise their achievement and are fully supported by parents who work with us in partnership;
- high-quality staff fully committed to supporting student's academic and personal development;
- a range of wider benefits and excellent opportunities for your professional development;
The Candidate information pack and application form are available on the school website at www.lgs.slough.sch.uk.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including online checks, checks with past employers, and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Preliminary school visits are welcomed. Applications should be returned by midday on Thursday 26th September to Mrs. De Cheyne, Head’s PA at vacancies@lgs.slough.sch.uk.
Interviews are scheduled for the 7th and 9th October 2024.
Attached documents
About Langley Grammar School
- Langley Grammar School
- Reddington Drive, Langley, Slough
- Berkshire
- SL3 7QS
- United Kingdom
Langley Grammar School is an innovative and forward-thinking selective school, committed to developing able students into well-rounded, confident and successful young men and women.
We are...
- an Outstanding school, currently exempt from routine Ofsted inspection
- a Leading Edge school working with SSAT
- recognised for our use of iPads for learning as an Apple Distinguished School
- accredited by SSAT as transformational in the variety of our teaching practices
- graded by ALPS in the top 10% of schools for value added at A Level
Our Ethos...
We are privileged to work with able students who have the potential to be in significant positions of influence and leadership in the future.
- We encourage our students to discover their own talents, to be confident of their abilities and to follow their passions across academic subjects, in sports and the arts.
- We support our students in developing themselves as innovative, effective and independent learners with high-level skills, willing to think in new ways, solve new problems and create new opportunities for the future.
- We help our students build up a set of sound values so that they have the strength of character, moral integrity and resilience to deal with the challenges they will face, and the motivation and willingness to work hard to achieve their ambitions.
In addition to helping them gain excellent examination results we support our students to become young people who are:
- Confident and well-rounded
- Independent and creative
- Responsible and caring
We can offer you...
- the opportunity to work with able and well motivated young people
- dedicated, innovative and supportive colleagues
- excellent induction and CPD opportunities
- strong support for trainee teachers and NQTs
- structured professional review and pay progression framework
- onsite parking and use of sports facilities
- additional benefits including Teachers' Pension scheme, childcare vouchers and cycle to work scheme
Langley and the local area...
Langley forms the eastern part of the Borough of Slough and offers easy access to Windsor, south Buckinghamshire and west London. The school is 5 minutes from Junction 4 of the M4, with good transport links. Langley station is 10-15 mins walk, and offers a half-hourly service into London Paddington.
Slough itself is a thriving multicultural town with rapidly developing facilities including the new Crossrail link to London. In September 2017, Slough came top in a survey of the 25 best towns and cities to live and work in, beating Manchester and Cambridge in the top three. It is hailed as a "prime spot" for jobs, cost of living and worker satisfaction in research by jobs site Glassdoor.
For further information please visit our website at www.lgs.slough.sch.uk
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