Deputy Headteacher

Deputy Head Teacher
Responsible for: Teachers, Therapeutic Education Practitioners, Therapeutic Integration Practitioners
TLTP have an exciting opportunity available at a specialist SEN school in Chelmsford.
responsibilities:
Play a lead role in the operational management of key stage 3. For example, working with the head of campus (assistant principal) in the daily allocation of staff to best effect.
Support staff with behaviour management. This requires a strong knowledge of improving the behaviour of pupils with severe learning disabilities and autism.
Enhance the quality of education in the department through a range of monitoring activity, including the delivery of supportive, coaching-based feedback to teachers.
Secure the right balance of support and accountability to build highly effective relationships with LSAs and teachers.
Attend a range of meetings, including teachers and leadership meetings, and contribute to whole school improvement and strategic development.
School caters for;
Young people aged 11-19 with SEN & Complex needs
PMLD
SLD
Teaching and Learning
Support teaching staff in their day-to-day practice and professional development, role-modelling best practice in teaching including giving demonstration lessons.
Take a lead in ensuring all pupils have an up-to-date and regularly reviewed Individual Education Plan (IEP).
Provide support and direction to colleagues in delivering the Curriculum, its schemes of work, lesson plans, differentiated interventions for key skills and homework.
Provide support and direction to colleagues to ensure they meet the requirements of the Assessment Policy.
Monitor all teaching and learning, and produce and analyse attainment data for internal and external purposes with Local Authorities.
Ensure that assessment outcomes are acted upon, especially in the management of effective interventions for pupils not achieving at appropriate rates.
Monitor pupil progress across the school and provide regular written reports to the Head of Service.
Be Lead Examinations Officer, registering the provision as a centre with agreed boards, ensuring that pupils are entered for exams they wish to take and appropriate access arrangements are applied for.
Undertake lesson observations and provide feedback as per the performance management system.
Provide cover for absent colleagues as and when required.
Work closely with the School Support Team, to provide high quality education, inclusion and clinical provision.