Assistant Headteacher with oversight of English (maternity cover)
Chesterton Community College
Cambridgeshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- January 2024
- Apply by:
- 27 September 2024
Job overview
CHESTERTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
11-18 mixed College with 1005 pupils on roll
Executive Headteacher: Rolf Purvis
CEO: Lucy Scott
OFSTED RATED OUTSTANDING
Required for January 2025
Leadership Scale: competitive salary to be negotiated.
Chesterton require an innovative and highly motivated Assistant Headteacher to join the leadership team of our outstanding school.
The ideal candidate will bring creativity and leadership skills to support and inspire the wider school community. You will have a proven track record of effective leadership and success, exemplary classroom practice as well as an ability to lead and motivate staff, to think proactively and work collaboratively.
The applicant should have strong experience in leading a faculty area in a written subject, and should have A-Level or degree level English qualifications.
Chesterton Community College is part of the Eastern Learning Alliance, a family of schools across Cambridgeshire and East Anglia.
Informal visits are welcome please contact Mrs
Suzanne Izzard, sizzard@ccc.tela.org.uk
Closing date: 9am 27th September 2024
Interview date: TBC
What can ELA offer you?
ELA offer a sector leading staff benefits offer alongside bespoke, high quality CPD programmes, cross-trust events, and exceptional opportunities for career development within our innovative family of schools.
ELA staff benefits include:
Reduced contact time to enable professional development;
EAP with access to counselling & physiotherapy;
Health care cash plan;
Paid annual family day;
Extensive discount club access;
Cycle to work & electric car lease schemes;
Enhanced parental leave;
Flexible work practices;
Laptop & mobile phone payment plans;
Ticket ballots for high profile events;
Generous annual leave allowance for support staff;
Discounted gym membership for all staff.
Details of our Trust and application forms are available via are website
Contact Us – Eastern Learning Alliance (click on Vacancies and follow the links) or telephone 01223 712150 Ext 142.
Please send a completed application form and covering letter to Mrs Suzanne Izzard, Chesterton Community College, Gilbert Road, Cambridge, CB4 3NY or e-mail: sizzard@ccc.tela.org.uk
Our Trust is committed to equal opportunities, to safeguarding and the promotion of the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff are expected to chare this commitment and undergo the appropriate checks. All positions within the Trust are subject to enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references. Only applications submitted on using the ELA application form will be accepted. We do not accept applications by CV.
Chesterton Community College Safeguarding Policy: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (chestertoncc.org)
All shortlisted applicants should expect to be called for interview no more than 5 working days after the closing date. If you have not heard from us by then you can expect that your application to be unsuccessful. Visits to the college are welcome
About Chesterton Community College
- Chesterton Community College
- Gilbert Road, Cambridge
- Cambridgeshire
- CB4 3NY
- United Kingdom
Chesterton Community College is a co-educational secondary academy located in Cambridge, educating around 1,000 students aged 11-18 The school converted to academy status in 2011.
Executive Headteacher
Mr Rolf Purvis
Values and vision
Chesterton Community College highly values its non-selective ethos, going to great lengths to ensure that students are given proper provision and care regardless of background or ability. The school is known for its English-language provision for students who have learning difficulties or who are learning English as an additional language.
Teachers strives to involve students' families, so that parents have a positive and accurate idea of the path taken by their child. Tolerance and respect for other faiths and traditions are heavily impressed upon students.
Ofsted report
“Most students, including the few from minority heritage groups, are achieving well and making good progress. The proportions of students making expected and better progress in English and mathematics is improving, and above average. In the summer 2013 national examinations attainment was above average in both English and mathematics.”
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