Deputy Headteacher - Attendance and Student Support EDV/2026/HCEA/12192

Specific Duties (this Is Not An Exhaustive List)

• Ensuring students are fully supported with wraparound personal support plans where necessary;
• Ensuring effective documentation and processes are followed to ensure the safety and wellbeing of students;
• In liaison with the Head, overseeing exams process, including logistics for evenings/events under your remit;
• Compliance with safeguarding policies;
• Trend analysis of safeguarding ensuring key issues are resolved and fed in to the PHSE programme;
• Ensuring that all students make outstanding academic progress;
• Ensuring that all students are safe, happy and have a strong attendance record;
• Effectively leading and managing staff and deploying resources efficiently and effectively to ensure demonstrable impact;
• Monitoring and evaluating the impact of school improvement;
• Supporting the Pastoral elements of school life, and ensuring that provision reflects the Christian Life of the school;
• Having high expectations, demanding ambitious standards for all students, overcoming disadvantage and advancing equality, instilling a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on student outcomes;
• Consistently improving outcomes for all students, especially disadvantaged students, through perceptive leadership and through a relentless drive for ambition;
• Leading by example, with integrity, creativity, resilience and clarity, drawing on own learning, expertise and skills and that of those around them.

Student Personal Development, Behaviour And Attitudes

• Promoting a culture where students are confident, self-assured learners with excellent attitudes to learning which has a strong and positive impact on their progress and where they are proud of their achievements;
• Promoting high standards of attendance;
• Providing a safe, calm and well ordered environment for all students and staff, focusing on safeguarding students and developing their exemplary behaviour in school and in the wider community;
• Creating and promoting positive strategies for challenging prejudice and to prevent bullying, use of derogatory language or aggressive language;
• Promoting students spiritual, moral, social and cultural development to equip them to be thoughtful, caring and active citizens in school and wider society;
• Develop and lead the house system. Including competitions, marketing, engagement with pupils, staff and parents and PR.

Coordinating aspects of day-to-day administration of the school, including responsibility for:

• Arranging appropriate administrative support for the pastoral functions;
• Supporting the annual review of School Policies;
• In liaison with the Head, overseeing the timing and nature of all major publications to parents’ evenings;
• Assessing the annual budget process for operational expenditure on pastoral care;
• Training, developing and monitoring the Prefects;
• Oversee and implement Reward System;
• All pastoral related policies

Other Responsibilities

• Undertaking duties as the Head or her delegated representative may reasonably request;
• To attend daily and weekly meetings, in accordance with school policy and to lead such meetings as required;
• To take whole school assemblies and to support other staff with assemblies;
• To attend occasional meetings during evening hours, at weekends or in school holidays, as required.

Accountabilities

The appointee will be line managed by the Headteacher.

Responsibilities

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• To safeguard and promote the welfare of our students and staff;
• To source effective alternative provision for key students;
• To inspire, motivate and influence staff and students, taking a leading role in maintaining the highest standards of teaching, learning and student behaviour;
• To provide an excellent role model for all members of staff and for students in all aspects of school life;
• To accept personal responsibility for supporting the school’s vision, mission and values making a significant and consistent contribution to our ethos and culture;
• To encourage the personal development of all students and colleagues, maintaining an atmosphere conducive to good working relationships;
• To undertake any professional duties reasonably delegated by the Head;
• To engage effectively with all parents and support the resolution of parental complaints;
• To take responsibility for developing and monitoring policy and practice as laid down in the School Development Plan, and in agreement with the Head;
• To comply with policies and procedures relating to health and safety, security, confidentiality and data protection/GDPR, reporting all concerns to the appropriate person;
• The postholder will be expected to assist the Head in providing professional leadership for the school.

It should be noted that this is not a definitive list of duties; you will be expected to undertake such other duties as requested from time to time in accordance with the grade of the role. This job description may be amended at any appropriate time, following consultation between the relevant Head and the postholder.

Safeguarding Statement

The Diocese of Coventry Multi-Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Diocese of Coventry Multi-Academy Trust ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

Related Documents

Deputy Headteacher - Attendance...pdf

Contact Details

Mrs Claire Bult

01788812549

recruitment@harris.covmat.org