Deputy Head of Student Culture and Welfare

2 months ago

Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Heath Farm College Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Deputy Headteacher to lead our Student Culture and Welfare team. As a key member of our college leadership team, you will play a vital role in promoting a culture of excellence, equality, and high expectations for all students.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and model the highest standards of education and learning, promoting our college values of 'Love, Commitment, and Opportunity'
  • Operate as a member of the college leadership team and deputise for the Head of College when necessary
  • Provide professional strategic and operational leadership for identified aspects of the College Improvement Plan
  • Promote the culture of safeguarding within the college
  • Ensure the highest standards of welfare and safety for students
  • Model and uphold the students' 'Code of Conduct'
  • Ensure the college Programme of Study enhances student personal development, cultural capital, and celebrates diversity
  • Build upon the established high quality of pastoral care and support, leading on student culture and welfare
  • Model a 'lifelong learning' culture throughout the college
  • Lead on SEND strategies across the college and lead on EHCP Annual Reviews, PEPs, CLA reviews, and other professionals' meetings
  • Maintain a culture that promotes excellence, equality, and high expectations for all students
  • Actively seek and promote positive and creative solutions to challenges and opportunities
  • Ensure equality of opportunity for all
  • Ensure implementation of the college's policies and modelling of the highest standards of leadership and management
  • Contribute to the sustaining, development, and review of policies, practices, and structures that drive forward the college's improvement
  • Implement the areas of the College Improvement Plan for which they are responsible
  • Use resources efficiently and effectively to ensure outstanding quality of provision that meets the needs of all students
About Us

We are an independent SEN school and sixth form that offers a unique and stimulating environment, where every pupil is able to make outstanding progress in their personal development and enjoy success in their education.

Our students present with a wide range of needs, including social and emotional issues, learning difficulties, mental health problems, and associated conditions. However, they are able to enjoy extraordinary outcomes and be happy at school. All classes have excellent ratios of at least 2:1, students to adults. Typically, classes have between 6-8 students.

We are far removed from the bureaucracy found in so many other schools and are able to abandon ineffective and traditional methods in favour of new, highly effective, and tailored initiatives – essentially, we do what we know is right for the students in our care.

Acorn Education is the UK's leading independent provider of specialist education and residential care for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

Why Work with Us?

We offer a range of benefits, including:

  • Life Assurance
  • Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
  • 'Your Wellbeing Matters' – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

We place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you'll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

You'll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy.

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