Provide vision and direction to secure effective teaching, successful learning and achievement by pupils and sustained improvement in their social, moral, cultural, spiritual, and physical development to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life  

Ensure that a School Development Plan, based on robust self-evaluation, is in place and is delivered and impacts on school improvement  

Enable the Local Committee to challenge and support the school effectively to enable it to meet its responsibilities, by attending meetings and providing timely and relevant information on:  

Progress against School Development Plan  

Pupil attainment, progress and achievement and quality of teaching and learning  

Action arising from any recent audits  

Child safeguarding, bullying, exclusions, and attendance  

Such other matters as the Local Committee needs to be informed about in order to be effective  

Working with your SBM, propose to the Trust a balanced budget that meets the needs and addresses the priorities within the School Development Plan across the planning period.  

Ensure creativity, continuous improvement and the use of appropriate technologies to achieve excellence and a broad curriculum, equipping pupils well for their next stage of education  

Promote the vision and values of the school and demonstrate them in everyday work and practice to allow both children and adults to flourish  

Promote an inclusive environment and positive and respectful relationships across the school community 

Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and standards of pupils’ achievement across the school, using benchmarks and rigorous analysis of data to identify priorities for school development and setting targets for improvement  

Establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching  

Demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set stretching targets for the whole school community  

Implement strategies which secure high standards of behaviour and attendance  

Ensure a diverse, creative, flexible curriculum  

Implement an effective assessment framework  

Embody excellent leadership together with confident, clear and sensitive oral and written communication skills  

Work in partnership with staff, the wider community and other service providers to maintain and extend the curriculum and sustain a variety of after school provision. 

Create an organisational structure which reflects the school’s vision and values and enables the management systems, structures and processes to work effectively in line with legal requirements  

Recruit, retain, develop and deploy staff effectively in order to maintain the highest quality of education and to achieve the vision and goals of the school 

Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk  

Develop and present a coherent, understandable and accurate account of the school’s performance to a range of audiences including the Trust, parents and carers, to ensure that they are well informed about the curriculum, attainment and progress and about the contribution that they can make to achieving the school’s targets. 

Work closely with the administrative staff to ensure the smooth running of the school  

Put in place effective means of communication with staff that provides them with support, and the information needed to help them in carrying out their duties effectively  

Implement and sustain effective strategies and processes for staff induction and the performance management of staff, including the appraisal process, ensuring it is balanced and robust  

Support subject leaders in the development of core and foundation subjects  

Ensure that staff have access to appropriate, high-standard professional development opportunities  

Ensure that trainees and early career teachers are appropriately trained, monitored, supported and assessed in relation to all relevant standards  

Manage staff with due attention to workload and broader wellbeing  

Maintain a culture of high staff professionalism, ensuring staff understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account  

Sustain a culture of trust and mutual support from the SLT through to all staff  

Demonstrate strong commitment to their own professional development.  

Ensure the policies and procedures relating to safeguarding and safer recruitment are adopted by the Local Committee and are fully implemented and followed by all staff  

Ensure sufficient resources and time are allocated to enable the designated person and other staff to discharge their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding, including taking part in strategy discussions and other inter-agency meetings, and contributing to the assessment of children  

Ensure all staff and volunteers feel able to raise concerns about poor and unsafe practice in regard to children and that such concerns are addressed sensitively and effectively in a timely manner in accordance with agreed whistleblowing policies.