Full Time Permanent
Salary Scale: L15 to L19 - £70,293 to £77,552
(salary can be negotiated based on experience and unique skill set of applicants)
Start Date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025 or ASAP
St. Gregory’s Catholic High School seeks to appoint an Assistant Head teacher to join our highly successful leadership team to assist our school in building on our success.
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to begin a new career chapter in 2025 by joining a successful and thriving school community, taking your current potential to a new level.
The senior team at St Gregory’s is comprised of the Headteacher, two Deputy Headteachers and four Assistant Headteachers who are supported by a Director of Finance.
The governors are open minded about the specific leadership aspects of the role. At this point, we welcome applications from outstanding, driven individuals with a sustained track record of success in your current or recent roles in school. We are looking for someone who has high ambition for children and themselves. Finalising of the specific nature of the role will be determined on offer of the post but we will consider pastoral leadership strengths in particular. The role will be hybrid and will combine elements of curriculum leadership too putting the postholder in a fantastic position for further development to deputy head.
Our school is at the heart of the thriving Catholic Parishes of West Warrington situated in an area of substantial growth next to all of the key motorway routes in the North West. We take pride in our relationship with the local community, partner primary schools and our partnerships within the archdiocese trust.
This is a unique opportunity to join one of the highest performing (top 3) schools in the Liverpool Archdiocese and Warrington area where you will get to work with pupils and staff who have a love of learning. Our most recent examination performance produced a progress 8 score of +0.35, above the national average.
Our school is well oversubscribed with a waiting list for admission in every year group. Our recent expansion in pupil numbers is now complete and has coincided with a building refurbishment of 23 new classrooms, a new sports hall and a new chapel.
In July 2024, Ofsted’s inspection report confirmed that the school continued to be ‘Good’ in every area and the school was graded as ‘Outstanding’ in our Section 48 Inspection of the Catholic Life provision of the school in February 2019. We encourage all applicants to read both reports and to review our school website too.
The opening paragraph’s from the Ofsted report reads: “Pupils are proud to attend this school. They value the strong relationships that they have with their teachers. Pupils positively embrace the school’s values. For example, they are respectful and empathetic towards other people regardless of their culture or background.”
We are now relishing the challenge of continuing our successful journey towards providing an outstanding whole school provision. Your qualities will include being an outstanding communicator, dedication, commitment and resilience in the face of challenges whilst showing passion and an ambition for all children. Positive relationships are key to our school.
You will have experience as a very successful middle leader with a strong track record of impact and performance or you may be an existing Assistant Headteacher wishing to join a new dynamic team and take on a new challenge and environment. Access to NPQ courses will provided to the successful applicant for continuous CPD and we support all applicants who wish to eventually move into deputy and headship posts in future years.
The school welcome and encourage potential applicants to meet with the Headteacher to discuss the role further but this is not a formal requirement. We also encourage you to review our school website: https://www.stgregoryshigh.com/
Closing Date: Thursday 21st November 2024
Shortlisting / Notice for Interview Date: Friday 22nd November 2024
Interviews: W/c 2nd December 2024 (interviews likely to be over 2 school days)
Further details and application forms are available from www.stgregoryshigh.com. Please return a completed CES Leadership Application Form to shutton@stgregoryshigh.com.
Only CES application forms will be accepted.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be expected to undertake a criminal record check via the DBS.
Online checks of shortlisted candidates may be obtained which forms part of our Safer Recruitment procedures and KCSIE Guidance.
Teaching Assistant Level 3
Full time (37hours), term time plus 5 INSET days (13 weeks’ holiday per year)
Grade 5 – Actual pay £22,357 – £24,621 (negotiable, dependant on experience)
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with a passion for supporting the learning experience of young people to join St Gregory’s Catholic High School as a Teaching Assistant (Level 3). We are looking for two exceptional TAs and the salary can be adjusted to reflect any additional skills or expertise included on the application form and discussed at interview.
St Gregory’s has once again been judged as a ‘Good’ school in our inspection of July 2024 with an Outstanding Catholic life judgement (Section 48 February 2019). Both reports can be viewed by clicking this link: https://www.stgregoryshigh.com/about-us/ofsted
St. Gregory’s is proud to be one of the highest performing schools in both Warrington and the Liverpool Archdiocese area and as such we are oversubscribed with a waiting list to join our school community.
Our Ofsted report noted “Pupils at St Gregory’s are happy, confident and welcoming to visitors. They like each other. There is a strong sense of community across the school. This reflects the school vision, ‘One family inspired to learn’. One pupil said: ‘We are cared about as individuals but, because everyone cares, that makes us all one.”
The successful candidate will join a passionate and successful SEND and pastoral team to work with and supervise individuals and groups of children under the direction/instruction of teaching &/or senior staff, inclusive of specific individual learning needs and enabling access to learning for all pupils.
You will provide assistance and support in classroom management, behaviour techniques and provide specialist support in a specific curricular/resource area depending on your areas of experience.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a top performing school which is expanding and completing a period of growth due to our sustained success.
The Job Description and CES Support Staff Application Form are available from the school website.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be expected to undertake a criminal record check via the DBS.
Online checks of shortlisted candidates may be obtained which forms part of our Safer Recruitment procedures and KCSIE Guidance.
Please return a completed CES Support Staff application form to recruitment@stgregoryshigh.com
Only CES application forms will be accepted.
Application deadline: 8am on Friday 29th November 2024
Shortlisting and notification of interview: Friday 29th November 2024
Interview date: Tuesday 3rd December 2024