Schools Area Manager (Senior Leadership Team)

Bishops Stortford / Coggleshall

£58000.00 - £62000.00 Per Annum

Education

Independent School

Welcome Incentive Bonus - £5000 if you apply from 21st January to 28th February 2025

(£2500 after a successful 6 months probation period and the following  £2500 after a 12 month successful annual appraisal) 

The schools manager will primarily be responsible for ensuring that the sites are operating in line with systems and policies. They will be responsible for supporting and enhancing learning  for all pupils, ensuring the pupils access their appropriately planned educational programmes.   The role will require travel across our 3 school sites and our RTL building in Bishops Stortford.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ensure logistics are set effectively, efficiently and in advance
• Support the staff to ensure that all sites are running effectively and efficiently each day
• Ensure robust health and safety checks are undertaken, with issues being reported following school policy
• Drive high standards with staff in ensuring the building is clean and conducive

to learning

• Promoting positive behaviour for learning, driving our culture of ‘catching the pupils being good’
• Ensure Deputies are updating behaviour waves dynamically
• Ensure Deputies are driving the use of class dojo to support pupils’ behaviour
• Ensure expectations of pupils are high
• Ensure the buildings meet the Independent School Standards
• Supporting staff with challenging behaviour, providing debriefs, ensuring all incidents are logged accordingly
• Ensure R & R’s take place after an incident
• Liaise with the Executive Head teacher in regards to incidents & concerns
• Ensure Deputies meet key paperwork deadlines
• Chair weekly Deputy head meetings
• Take an active role as a Leader and promote the Schools Appraisal and supervision schedules
• Support the creation and implementation of the SEF and School Improvement Plan (SIP), and to take sole responsibility for appropriately delegated aspects of it.
• Ensure each site are making good progress towards the areas of the SIP
• Ensure impact risk assessments are adapted and updated dynamically when looking at mixing pupils, completed by Deputies

Experience/qualifications:

- QTS

- Experience of working with pupils who have SEMH, ASD, ADHD, adverse childhood    experiences

- Leadership/Assistant Head teacher experience

Skills & abilities:

• Ability to work under pressure
• Resilient
• Dedicated
• Be prepared for changes/flexible mindset
• Effective communicator
• Highly organised