Role Responsibility

Headteacher

Salary: £50,000 - £70,000

About the role

As part of our ongoing growth, we are launching a new hybrid education environment to support young people currently unable to access educational settings. From September, we will be offering our 26 Independent schools a hybrid curriculum to support our young people unable to access education. This will include a varied approach including online learning, in person tuition, support to access education again, outdoor learning via our activity centres and personal development. In addition to our schools, we have a large number of Children’s Residential Homes. A key part of the provision will be to work collaboratively with the residential team to ensure all young people at Keys are accessing education.  

We are still in the developmental stage of our new provision, so if the role does sound interesting, please contact Mitchell in the recruitment team to discuss further.

Hybrid working

We foresee the role mainly working from home with travel to our schools across the country.

Responsibilities of appointment:

• Launch the hybrid education for Keys including full responsibility for staffing and strategic responsibility.
• Appoint, develop and lead the staffing team including national subject specialists, senior leaders and Tutors.
• Design innovative ways to offer a bespoke curriculum based on individual needs incorporating online learning and face to face teaching where appropriate.
• Work collaboratively with a wide range of Local Authorities across the country developing a high-quality provision with the future prospect of offering this to young people outside of our organisation.  
• Lead the development of a Keys Group SEND curriculum to embed across the group where necessary.
• Conducting statutory meetings such as annual reviews you students accessing the hybrid curriculum.
• Take the new provision through the accreditation process ensuring Quality of Education is at the core of the provision.
• Designated Safeguarding Lead for students accessing a hybrid curriculum.
• Network with our Headteachers and Education Leadership Team on a regular basis, providing support and advice where appropriate.

What we offer you as a Headteacher:

• Fully funded CPD training for all staff in our schools.
• Enhanced pay scales that recognise both qualifications and experience for all staff.
• Extensive senior management support from Regional Managers, Executive Headteachers and Regional Directors.
• Centralised head office function offering supportive delivery of finance, payroll, HR and recruitment functions.
• Established network of collaborative Headteachers, across our 25 schools, offering regular Headteacher conferences, peer support and sharing school improvement ideas across the group.
• Group wide budgets for a range of critical resources such as estates, job boards and learning and development.
• A dedicated School Administrator to provide an administrative support function to the Headteacher.
• Access to our in-house Principal and Assistant Educational Psychologists and providing support for students and leaders within our schools.
• Support from our Clinical Team which includes National Safeguarding Specialists.  
• Headteacher wellbeing drop in sessions.
• Enhanced programme of 10 INSET days.
• Enhanced company maternity & paternity pay.
• Access to a blue light discount card for all employees.
• NEST enhanced Pension Scheme.
• Life assurance.

More about you

We are looking for an experienced Senior Leader with extensive experience of online learning and tuition. In addition to this the successful candidate will be an experienced leader within SEN schools specialised in curriculum and can demonstrate experience of engaging with Local Authorities to support complex young people.

Keys Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone in our care. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, suitable employment references and online searches to safeguard our young people. In addition, this post is exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974.

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