Deputy Headteacher

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**Job Title:

- Deputy Headteacher**

**Location:

- New Options School - Burgess Hill, West Sussex**

**Salary:

- up to £55,000 per annum dependent on qualifications and experience**

**Hours:

- 40 hours per week**

**Contract:

- Permanent**

Are you an innovative Deputy Headteacher committed to improving the lives of children and young people? We are looking for an experienced Deputy Headteacher to join our fantastic team at New Options School in Burgess Hill, West Sussex.

**Job Purpose**

To provide a high-quality education service for our students in accordance with Company policies, procedures and practices and the standards set by the Regulatory Body. To work with the Head Teacher, leadership team and other stakeholders to secure highstandards throughout the school.

Key Task Areas and Responsibilities
- To comply with good safeguarding procedures and principles as detailed by the local safeguarding board
- To participate in the process of assessment of referrals
- To act as overall curriculum coordinator and manager across the school
- To act as the lead teacher for the positive support of behaviour that may challenge
- To work as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team which encompasses education, residential care and the clinical team
- To monitor progress and targets to ensure that each individual student can achieve planned outcomes

Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of teaching children and young people with Autistic spectrum condition and/or challenging behaviours
- Relevant experience of teaching children and young people with complex needs
- Experience of managing staff
- Managing budgets effectively and ensuring cost efficiency
- Degree and QTS

**About us**

Our New Options School is in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. Burgess Hill is just on the West Sussex side of the border and just across the county boundary of East Sussex. Brighton and Hove are a short drive and just northeast of Chichester. The A23 is the London-BrightonTrunk Road and runs to the west of the town. The A23 is connected to Burgess Hill via the A2300.

Our new specialist school will cater for young people with complex communication needs, autism and associated learning and emotional needs and has the capacity for c60 students.

For over 16 years, Options Autism have provided care and education to children, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approachesthat provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**Why join Options Autism?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package 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

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children 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 livesof others.**

**Job ID: 201645