Welcome

Dear candidate

Thank you for your interest in the post of Head Teacher at The Old Park School.

The Governing Board wish to appoint an exceptional, dynamic and successful leader to maintain the excellent quality of education in the school and continue the outstanding outcomes for our children and young people.

We are a special school for children with a wide range of learning sensory and health needs aged from 4 to 19. We are at present funded for 154 places in a modern purpose-built school which was built in 2011. Our most recent OFSTED report of November 2018 judged the school to be ‘Outstanding’ for the third successive time . We anticipate that an inspection will be due in the next year.

We wish to appoint a leader who will maintain and build upon the culture of exceptional performance by the present Headteacher and staff to enable our children and young people to continue to make the excellent progress that has been highlighted in previous reports.

The needs of many of our children and young people require high staffing ratios by appropriately trained and devoted staff which gives the school a higher than normal staff to pupil ratio therefore exceptional people management skills are a prerequisite for this post.

We are looking for a senior leader who is already performing extremely strongly, who has the self-awareness to recognise where improvements can be made and the desire to make it happen and be flexible and speedy in response to the challenges that will occur in education in the coming years.

If you believe you are the person who can take our school forward please contact Martin Blair at Hays Leadership on 07736791138 or at martin.blair@hays.com for a private and confidential discussion about the role or to arrange a visit to the school.

We look forward to your application.

Alex Burns
Chair of Governors