Person Spec
Qualifications & Experience
- Teaching qualification
- First degree or Certificate of Education
- Holder of NPQH (or gained headship before 2004); if does not hold NPQH must have evidence of alternative relevant post-graduate qualification and a willingness to undertake NPQH upon appointment
- Desirable: NCSL/CWDC Safer recruitment certificate (required within the first year of Headship)
- Relevant recent and substantial experience of senior leadership roles in schools (e.g. strong track record as a deputy headteacher and demonstrates potential to step up). Desirable: already has experience working of as headteacher.
- Able to demonstrate having achieved good or outstanding educational results especially in terms of pupil premium funding
- Desirable: experience of working successfully in schools in a similar context to Woodlands Primary Academy
Qualities & Knowledge / Leadership
- Ability to articulate a clear future vision for the academy, and to implement a strategic plan across the whole school, identifying priorities and evaluating the impact
- Experience of working with and leading teams and individuals to implement changes across the school
- Ability to build effective relationships with staff, parents/carers, governors and other agencies, and to influence all stakeholders
- Track record of school improvement with ability to make and implement difficult decisions
- Experience of partnership/ collaboration and collaborative leadership
- In-depth knowledge of primary education including implementing successfully key government initiatives, policies and practices and curriculum developments
Pupils & Staff
- Experience of implementing strategies which impact positively upon learning and create innovative learning experiences for pupils
- Experience of implementing curriculum improvements and effective interventions to ensure pupils make good or better progress
- Effective use of assessment tools to monitor teaching & learning and pupil progress, with the ability to identify excellent classroom practice to enable teachers to improve
- Ability to lead, manage, motivate, enthuse and develop staff
- Evidence of instilling a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on pupil outcomes
Systems & Processes
- Ability to plan and allocate work effectively
- Experience of performance management to secure improvement in others through effective feedback, and managing under-performance of staff to a satisfactory conclusion when required
- Evidence of a commitment to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, including an ability to implement effective Child Protection policies and procedures, and to deal with sensitive issues in a supportive and effective manner whilst working in a multi-agency team approach
- Evidence of promoting, implementing and monitoring equal opportunities across all aspects of a school
- Experience of successful management of school budgets
- Experience of managing the school environment in line with health and safety regulations
- Experience of developing appropriate school development plans, policies and procedures
- Experience of working effectively with a governing body to fulfil statutory duties
- Experience of providing performance data for a range of audiences
- Desirable: evidence of implementing changes to staffing structures to secure improvement
The self-improving school system
- Evidence of reviewing own practice and effective CPD
- Ability to build relationships with community groups, outside agencies and other schools
- Experience of positively promoting the school in the community [Desirable: and in the media]
- Experience of working with parents and carers to improve pupil achievement
Personal qualities and attributes
- Demonstrates clear moral purpose and a commitment to co-operative values & principles
- Identifies with the Sponsor, and is keen to maximise the opportunities that sponsorship presents
- Communicates effectively with self-awareness and social perception
- Adaptable to changing circumstances and new ideas
- Ability to quickly assess a situation or set of complex information to identify key relevant factors
- Approachable and enjoys being highly visible to children and parents
- Demonstrates personal impact and presence
- Demonstrates creativity and imagination to anticipate and solve problems
- Demonstrates good judgement
- Demonstrates commitment, reliability and integrity
- Demonstrates emotional intelligence and the ability to be resilient, robust and calm under pressure
- Is motivated by challenge
- Is self-motivated and able to motivate others
