Job Details

Salary: up to 100,000 per annum Contract type: Permanent Working pattern: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 14 November 2016 by noon Interview date: Thursday 08 December and Friday 09 December 2016

If you are interested in this position, please download the Application Pack on our website

Please complete the Application for Employment and References & Monitoring Form and return to the Clerk to the Governing Board, Mrs Helen Archer

If you wish to discuss the post further, please contact Julian Mace, Chair of Governors

Address and Registered Office: Gildredge House, Compton Place Road, Eastbourne BN20 8AB.

About the Role

Start Date: April/September 2017

Governors are seeking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic and inspiring Head Teacher to lead our all-through (4-18) school in Eastbourne. Gildredge House is currently judged Outstanding by Ofsted.

Our ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted judgement (June 2015) was only the start of the story. The challenge is to sustain and embed this excellence through every aspect of Gildredge House as it grows to full capacity in 2018/19.

Our vision for the school is one of traditional values and high academic standards, coupled with a contemporary approach to teaching and learning that inspires and enriches the experience of students. We want a leader who will instil creativity, scientific inquisitiveness, technological innovation, sporting energy and a love of learning in our students; and a passion for success for our teachers.

You will be motivated to release talent from each and every child, from Reception to Sixth Form, regardless of aptitude or background. You will motivate students and staff to enjoy a full and varied enrichment programme of sport, the arts, interests and study. You will welcome a school and local community of people motivated to take part in the school’s life and that of the students.

The Gildredge House Free School Trust was established to provide the very highest level of learning, achievement and attainment for the young people of Eastbourne. The school is at the heart of a vibrant, varied and growing seaside town, full of character with communities hungry for a new type of education – one that expects excellence, rewards hard work and encourages a zest for life, learning and success. Only outstanding will do, for every student, for the staff and for the school. The Gildredge House Trust Governing Board is ready and waiting for an outstanding individual to join it, and to continue to steer the school to realise the vision we have for our young people.

At Gildredge House each individual is known and valued. Students are inspired to discover their passions and realise their academic potential, taking advantage of an effective system of monitoring and support. The school's ethos and pastoral care systems are crucial to this and we pride ourselves on offering a caring and enriching environment for both students and staff.

Gildredge House offer's:

-Continuity of education for boys and girls aged 4-19.

-An expectation of high academic standards leading to Sixth Form studies.

-Small class sizes.

-Strong discipline.

-Excellent pastoral care.

-An extended school day for older students.

-Supervised prep.

-A broad range of extra-curricular activities.

-Parent and community involvement.

-School motto: 'Aspire.'

Gildredge House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All offers of employment with the school are subject to pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, a satisfactory Enhanced DBS with Children’s Barred List check and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.