Headteacher
Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College
Havering
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary L29 - L35 (£79,084 - £91,134)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2016 or sooner
- Apply by:
- 1 June 2015
Job overview
Abbs Cross is first and foremost regarded as an excellent school, which enjoys a tremendous reputation in the community. We have a proud history of excellence in many areas, including academic attainment, pastoral care, Student Voice and the Performing Arts.
Dynamic, innovative and highly visible, our next Headteacher will combine a proven track record of successful, senior leadership experience with the ability to motivate and inspire the whole school community. Strong ambassadorial skills are essential, as is the capacity to uphold high expectations for students in terms of achievement, learning and behaviour.
The successful candidate needs to be able to demonstrate a genuine resonance with the school's ethos and values.
As the Governing Body wants to achieve outstanding status within the next two years, an incentive within the pay scale will be discussed with the successful candidate. To request an application form, arrange a visit or for an informal discussion please contact the Headmaster's P.A., Michelle Gibson, to whom completed forms should be returned by Monday 1st June 2015.
Closing date: 1st June 2015
Interviews: 11th & 12th June 2015
Abbs Cross is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all employees are required to have an Enhanced DBS check.
Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College
Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 4YB
Tel: 01708 440304
email: mgibson@abbscross.havering.sch.uk
website: www.abbscross.havering.sch.uk
About Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College
- Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College
- Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch
- Essex
- RM12 4YB
- United Kingdom
Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College is a vastly over-subscribed, 840 student co-educational foundation 11-16 comprehensive school serving Elm Park and Hornchurch. 10% places are allocated for aptitude in the performing arts, with siblings and students from within a close proximity (<1km) making the 168 places in each year.
Abbs Cross enjoys an outstanding local reputation. The school is known for its strong ethos, built around respect, consideration of others and high standards of leadership, teaching, learning and behaviour, its caring vertical pastoral structure, its wide ranging curriculum, innovative student leadership system and stable and supportive staff body.
The Arts College agenda has allowed the school to secure a distinct ethos and culture which provides for all learners the scope to develop the critically important generic skills/attributes of independent learning, creativity, confidence, empathy, mutual respect, responsibility, teamwork and adaptability. Students and staff benefit from the extensive facilities in our state of the art Sports and Leisure Centre.
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