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Headteacher
Grade
Point 13 to 18 on the inner London leadership pay scale
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Term time hours
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
260-TP-968
Employer
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Gloucester House Day Unit
Town
London
Salary
£76,331 - £85,092 Point 13 to 18 on the inner London leadership pay scale
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/09/2025 09:00

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Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust logo

Headteacher

Point 13 to 18 on the inner London leadership pay scale

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

 

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

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Job overview

The Headteacher will be part of the Gloucester House multidisciplinary team and lead the school part of the service. Gloucester House is led by a clinical lead of Service. The Headteacher will be operationally responsible to this post-holder and accountable for the school.

The Headteacher will work in partnership with the Head of Service/ Clinical Lead to lead the organisation and in the management of day-to-day tasks/issues to ensure the smooth running of Gloucester House. The Headteacher will be supported in this task by the Specialist Service Manager for Integrated Schools at the Tavistock Clinic. The Headteacher will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team, to provide professional leadership and ensure high quality education for all its pupils and an integrated approach within Gloucester House.

The Headteacher is responsible for the development and delivery of the educational component of an integrated educational and CAMHS provision for children and young people between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 3.

For more information on Gloucester House - Please visit: Gloucester House School, Camden - Working together for learning and development

Main duties of the job

The Headteacher contributes to the leadership, management and strategic direction of Gloucester House and the staff team therein. The Headteacher leads on the welfare, health and safety of the children and staff in all activities, including off site visits.

The Headteacher is accountable for educational standards and to present coherent reports on progress and development of these within Gloucester House to the management group and Trust Board through the Gloucester House Steering Group.  The Headteacher will co-ordinate the educational aims and provisions of Gloucester House with the overall therapeutic task and develop and maintain the educational programme, to ensure good quality learning, teaching and standards for children at Gloucester House. 

 

Working for our organisation

GLOUCESTER HOUSE:
Gloucester House forms part of the Integrated Schools Service of the Tavistock Clinic and is managed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. It is a specialist school and CAMHS team which provides education and clinical services for up to 21 pupils aged 5-14 years who have social, emotional and mental health needs, often alongside other learning difficulties such as specific language or literacy difficulties and sometimes more general learning difficulties. Many of our pupils are neurodiverse.

Baseline records show that all pupils are underachieving when they start at Gloucester House. Many of the pupils who attend are from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, some of whom  have experienced trauma or other adverse experiences in their early lives. The pupils come from 
both inner and outer London boroughs.

Gloucester House aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment through an effectively integrated educational and therapeutic approach to promote the holistic development of the children and young people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the full job description and person specification for the full role and responsibilities required. 

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • DFE recognised qualified teacher
  • Evidence of recent relevant Continuing Professional Development
  • NPQH and/or other postgraduate leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • have gained appropriate advanced or further professional qualifications or have carried out research/study in a relevant area

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Recent successful teaching experience at primary level and/or early secondary
  • Recent management and leadership experience in either a Primary or Special Education
  • Have had successful experience in some aspect of special educational provision for children who have been affected by social, emotional, mental health and behavioural difficulties
  • Have the experience and ability to co- ordinate and convene a range of meetings internally and externally to achieve the purpose for which they are intended
  • Successful management of school self-evaluation, development planning and the OFSTED process
Desirable criteria
  • Have had an experience and proven record of management at a middle level in a multi-professional setting
  • Working with & engaging the involvement of external partners
  • Have the experience and the ability to work closely with parents and carers in an integrated therapeutic and educational setting

Skills

Essential criteria
  • An ability to manage a complex workload, which includes monitoring and planning for the pupils’ range of needs
  • Ability to develop others potential whilst developing accountability in a sensitive way
  • Successful management through monitoring and evaluation
  • Have a mature ability to communicate effectively and authoritatively with those persons and bodies responsible for children placed at Gloucester House in ways that make the work and a child's situation and progress comprehensible to them
  • Have an understanding of, sympathy with and commitment to, therapeutic treatment and processes in education in general and (as practiced in Gloucester House in particular.)
  • Ability to translate vision into practice

Knowlegde

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of safeguarding children and young people procedures
  • Knowledge of how to implement strategies for school improvement, including attendance and behaviour for learning.
  • An understanding of good teaching practice in primary years and the conditions required to raise levels of achievement.
  • Cultural sensitivity, demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
Desirable criteria
  • Have a well-grounded knowledge of child development and special needs issues and recognition of their relevance and application in a special educational environment

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Essential criteria
  • Self-aware, self-motivated and reflective
  • Proactive, positive, and enthusiastic attitude

Other

Essential criteria
  • Keyboard / IMT skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lucy Kemp
Job title
Team Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Please contact by email in the first instance, we will contact you back by phone if required. 

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