DARLINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL

Children’s Services Department

 

Mount Pleasant Primary School

Newton Lane

Darlington

DL3 9HE

Tel: (01325) 244950

Number on Roll: 248 (fte)

 

HEAD TEACHER 

Salary:  Leadership 21 - 27 (£59,910 - £69,394)

Required for April 2010

(or sooner if possible)

 Post No: D00877

 

Following the retirement of the current head teacher Governors are seeking to appoint an experienced, talented and motivational leader to rapidly lead the school out of special measures* and beyond.

 

The successful applicant will:

• Have an ambitious strategic vision for the school and an exceptional drive to inspire, influence and motivate staff and children.
• Be able to maintain a high profile within the daily life of the school, and the community which it serves.
• Develop, communicate and embed a strong ethos which sustains the learning, development, safety and well-being of all pupils within a welcoming learning environment.
• Have a passion for leading high quality teaching and learning so that all outcomes, achievement and well-being for all pupils exceed expectations given a range of starting points and capabilities.
• Be decisive and prepared to make difficult decisions, as appropriate, with unrelenting focus, determination, sensitivity and propriety.
• Be committed to contributing to community cohesion and integrated partnership working in the delivery of the “Every Child Matters” outcomes for children.

 

This post may suit an experienced and successful senior manager who is looking for a new challenge in a very pleasant market town within a supportive, high performing and dynamic local authority.  The school, which has an attached Sure Start Children’s Centre, is situated on the western fringes of the town with above average numbers of pupils entitled to free school meals and of those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.

 

For additional information about the School please visit our website (www.mountpleasantprimary.ik.org)

 

Informal visits to the school are welcome, by appointment.

 

Closing Date: Friday 20th November at 12 noon

 

*The school was inspected in March 2009 as part of the pilot for the revised Ofsted framework for Inspection and was found to require special measures.

 

Application packs are available to download from www.darlington.gov.uk/jobs

Alternatively you can contact the Recruitment Team, Tel: (01642) 526992 or email: recruitment@darlington.gov.uk