Assistant Headteacher / Director of Mathematics – Coundon Court – Coventry

Assistant Headteacher, Director of Mathematics with some whole school responsibility

This is both a challenging and exciting time to be working at Coundon Court School. I hope that you will be enthused and excited by the prospect of working in a highly oversubscribed school where student behaviour is excellent and levels of attainment look set to significantly exceed national benchmarks. Your appointment is designed to add to our capacity to deliver an 80% plus 5 A*-C English and Maths school.

Our challenge is to ensure a delivery of excellence at all levels of operation and maintain the necessary high levels of drive and ambition required as we encounter a sequence of changes to public examinations and accountability measures.

Coundon Court seeks to appoint a committed, experienced and enthusiastic leader of Mathematics to join the Leadership Team, to increase leadership capacity within the Academy. We seek to recruit a candidate with the potential to lead effectively and manage high expectations through robust challenge and engaging support. The successful candidate will be responsible for standards in the Mathematics Faculty.

We offer a great opportunity for you to develop your career in a dynamic and forward thinking school, where parent support is excellent and levels of attainment are set to beat all external targets. As a large school with over 120 teachers you will be exceptionally well supported as we drive to secure consistently outstanding levels of achievement. Successful candidates should look forward to a challenging but productive context within which to work, where there is every opportunity to flourish and to lay excellent foundations for career progression. Our pay policy allows for reward where staff generate outstanding outcomes.

Please log onto our website www.coundoncourt.org, or come and visit our school to see for yourself the potential that exists. Please contact Mrs Linda Phillips, who will arrange a mutually convenient time for your visit. Mr Alan Scott, Deputy Headteacher, is also available to speak to prospective candidates on an informal basis over the telephone.

To obtain further details please contact Linda Phillips on 02476 335121 or email: vacancies@coundoncourt.org

To apply for this position, please complete and email the application form to vacancies@coundoncourt.org. You will also need to respond to the following question, on no more than two sides of A4, font size 11:

“How will you use your subject knowledge, pedagogical expertise and leadership experience to raise standards in Mathematics at Coundon Court”.

Closing date: Midday, Monday 19th October 2015
Interview Date: Friday 23rd October 2015

Coundon Court is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this post.

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