Interim Headteacher

**Interim Headteacher**
**Contract**:1-year**
Location**:Wareham, Dorset**
Salary**:L8-L12

**Benefits**:Pension Scheme**
**The Futures Education team are working with a leading multi-academy trust of 34 Catholic schools and 1 nursery. Plymouth CAST educates over 7000 children and young people across 7 local authority areas**

We seek passionate individuals to join the team who share the commitment to the flourishing of people for the common good. Plymouth CAST has developed collaborative working and partnerships across the Trust to ensure that local expertise and best practiceis shared and created, inspiring a community driven by an unwavering vision for excellence.
**General Duties**:

- Leading by example, providing dynamic, consistent and motivational leadership, ensuring the successful delivery of the vision, ethos, aims and objectives of the Trust
- Holding and articulating clear values and moral purposes, focused on providing a world-class education for the pupils being served
- Demonstrating optimistic personal behaviour, positive relationships and attitudes towards their pupils and staff, and towards parents, governors, members of the local community and colleagues across the Trust
- Leading by example - with integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity - drawing on their own scholarship, expertise and skills, and that of those around them
- Sustaining wide, current knowledge and understanding of education and school systems locally, nationally and globally, and pursuing continuous professional development
- Working with political and financial astuteness, within a clear set of principles centred on the Trust’s vision, ably translating local and national policy into the school’s context
- Communicating compellingly the Trust’s vision and driving the strategic leadership, empowering all pupils and staff to excel.
**Essential Requirements**:

- Practising Catholic with a strong understanding of the structures and values of the Catholic Church
- Qualified to degree level relevant to the post and/or equivalent through professional experience.
- PGCE (or equivalent) - Qualified to Teach in the UK
- Recent, substantive and successful headship experience
- The ability to manage change by bringing innovative ideas to traditional approaches to teaching and learning
- Understanding and/or experience in managing finances and ensuring financial sustainability
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - an attentive listener and team builder.
- A broad knowledge of current and proposed education policy and the legal framework within which schools must operate, particularly in relation to safeguarding, when part of a Multi Academy Trust.