Witherslack Group
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Head Teacher of SEMH/Pupil Progress
What the Role Involves
As Head Teacher of SEMH/Pupil Progress at Queensmead House School, a specialist provision within Witherslack Group, you will oversee the emotional and academic progress of our young people working in close collaboration with our pastoral and therapeutic teams.
You will be responsible for:
- Pastoral leadership within Bronze Group (Year 1–5) ensuring the personal, social and emotional welfare, from safeguarding and developing emotional health to social skills is integral to all aspects of school life to enable pupils to access, learn and enjoy school at all times.
- Educational leadership of a department and team to drive academic progress and attainment for the pupils through meaningful SEN curriculum, quality first teaching, and individualised learning plans (ILPs).
- On-the-spot assessment, curriculum planning, differentiation, identifying needs (academic, personal, social and emotional) and collaborative interventions.
- Developing, supporting and monitoring safeguarding communication, policies and incidents including a range of offences reporting to the safeguarding lead.
- Ensuring robust Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is central to our provision.
- Working collaboratively with your team to formalise and promote mental well-being practices and preventative strategies to best support our pupils and staff.
You should possess:
- Preferably, recent experience in a similar leadership position within SEMH school practice
- Secondary experience gained in schools focusing on NEAUAS or animation, preferable with social and emotional aspects
- Influencing posture built on problem-solving skills
- Creativity as a primary approach
- Quality + consistency in ensuring fairness and consistency at all times – safeguarding, pioneering educational content, effective pastoral practice
About the Role
You will enjoy working within a dedicated SEMH team operational within the highly successful Queensmead House School setting.
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Responsibilities
- Ensure all pupils are assessed in both Vocational, SETT and Social-Emotional learning contexts.
- Collaborate effectively to produce comprehensive personal and pupil profiles.
- Engage actively through parent engagement concerning the pastoral and academic progress of pupils.
- Implement quality first teaching which provides learners with the experience of being successful.
- Train and manage the assigned teaching and support staff (as and when required).
- Maintain and support management meetings
- Provide dedicated 1-1 Pupil Feedback Strategy meetings as part of the
- upgrade of insight for pupil re-conciliation to meet their EHCPs and SLP outcomes
- Be an active participant in the maintenance of aził periodical policy updates
- Attendance at key events: Social Networking, Training 1:1s, Training days
This is a full-time, permanent position and you’ll be expected to work closely with our safeguarding and DSL teams to ensure compliance. Due to the financial challenges in education, your role is also accountable for supporting the underperforming SEN (SST) portfolio and enhancement of the vocational educational component of the curriculum to meet the demand for additional services.
Queensmead House School is located in a beautiful historic building with panoramic views and in the morning sunlight. Here, you’ll experience a calm organisational ethos that encourages continual professional development within the construct of learning and support evidence-based improvements. Support our pupils in becoming more independent than ever in expressing their wants and emotional experiences through focused guidance and valid relationships.
Requirements
- Essential Qualification: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) with affluent teaching and managing experience.
- Experience working towards Enhanced-DBS Check
- Managing teaching well within SLT development and academic understanding
- Recognisable mentor status ( pevatories testamentary )
- Excellent experience of safeguarding and working with young vulnerable people
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Benefits
- Attractive competitive salary range: up to £58,941 + TLR points + excellent benefits package
- Full staff induction and high-quality on-the-job training
- Full school holidays and flexible land-free benefits to customise life insurance/health cover including P/s Living Well packages and TPS-friendly pension
- Unprecedented freedom to shape a subject and classroom team
- Expert guidance and continual support from psychologists and professional mentoring team
- Progressive career opportunities having promoted stems within WG
- Public school environments, quality facilities, state-of-the-art resources to enhance learning needs
- Dog-friendly offices
- Free coaching packages, mental wellness programs and private health benefits
Bring Your Whole Self to Work
We encourage a culture that speaks inclusively promoting equality, variety, and well-being.
By diving into your passions, driving inclusion, and celebrating different careers, you’ll stand out in creating significant outreach and care. Here, you’ll thrive in a dynamic yet nurturing atmosphere promoting responsibility, recognition and growth to fully align your values, uniqueness, and expertise with each child/teacher.
Several outstanding Ofsted-rated environments await! Boost your career by joining us — welcoming those who embrace differences, celebrate challenges, and understand that tiny changes stretch the horizon of every pupil’s potential every day.
At Witherslack Group, inclusion counts. We work towards a diverse and supportive culture: equal opportunities, supporting adjustments and proclaiming individuality.
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