EDUC - Head Teacher

Head Teacher

To provide effective, dynamic and inspirational leadership to ensure that every child is able to fulfil their true potential.

Responsible to South Lanarkshire Education Resources under the overall direction of the Executive Director of Education Resources.

The Head Teacher will:

Promote a culture of encouragement, support and challenge which provides each child the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
Ensure the establishment’s vision is clearly and effectively articulated, shared and understood with all stakeholders.
Ensure that national and local priorities feature in the school improvement plan as part of the overall approach to self-evaluation.
Ensure the school profile is maintained and is a feature of the overall approach to self-evaluation and improvement.
Promote creativity, innovation and the use of appropriate new technologies to achieve excellence.
Ensure that the establishment ethos and relationships lead to continuously improving outcomes for pupils and that parents/carers are engaged in supporting learning.

The Head Teacher will:

Develop, motivate and lead all staff to achieve the highest professional standards, promoting and building leadership capacity at all levels.
Build a collaborative learning culture within the establishment and actively engage with appropriate early years, primary and secondary establishments, and partner agencies, to build effective learning communities.
Maintain and enhance existing community links.
Manage change effectively with the continual focus on improving outcomes for children.
Manage the establishment’s finances effectively, working closely with relevant Authority staff.
Ensure remits and performance management for all staff are based on clear roles and responsibilities, reviewed at least annually and consistent with current conditions of employment.
Formulate guidance for the establishment through working closely with pupils, teaching staff, the Parent Forum and other stakeholders.
Maintain sound procedures for the security, supervision and maintenance of the establishment environment ensuring that all health and safety regulations are met.
Undertake personal professional development and ensure the well being of, and a good work/life balance for all.
Undertake other such duties as may be reasonably expected.

The Head Teacher will:

Lead in the design and implementation and ongoing monitoring of a curriculum, which inspires, motivates and engages all pupils.
Ensure a consistent and continuous focus on pupil assessment and achievement, using appropriate data and benchmarks to set, monitor, track and evaluate individual pupil progress.
Provide challenge and support to ensure continuously improving learning outcomes for children.
Provide nurturing and attentive pastoral care for all pupils.
Ensure exemplary standards of behaviour and attendance.
Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies; Promote achievement and celebrate success.

The Head Teacher will:

Build effective relationships with all stakeholders through excellent communication and interpersonal skills, taking and providing appropriate advice.
Consistently use and develop two-way information sharing links with all stakeholders.
Co-ordinate the establishment’s work with early years and secondary establishments to ensure smooth transitions and continuity of learning.
Regularly and effectively communicate the progress of every child’s learning to parents/carers and others as appropriate.
Act on behalf of the council, as principal professional adviser to the Parent Council which is a separately constituted group to support parental engagement, family learning, and provide such advice and information as required, by the Parental Involvement Act 2006.

The Head Teacher will undertake other reasonable duties which may from time to time be assigned by the Executive Director, Education Resources.