Deputy Head

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

22 December 2024

**Job overview**:
King’s College, world-renowned for academic excellence and student leadership, is seeking to appoint a dynamic, inspiring and ambitious professional **to the position of Deputy Head to join us on a permanent basis.**

Located on the outskirts of Madrid, King's College, Soto de Viñuelas is a vibrant, dynamic, and forward-thinking school which embraces diversity and is committed to ensuring success for all our pupils.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support the vision, ethos and policies of the school, and of Inspired, and promote the highest levels of achievement and attainment.
- Develop and maintain a culture of high expectations for self and others.
- Be responsible for maintaining good discipline and a high standard of behaviour throughout the school and lead on any significant issues.
- Ensure there is a regular programme of assemblies and tutorial activities, effective systems of supervision during pupil breaks and lunchtime.
- Promote excellence in teaching and learning, ensuring a continuous and consistent school-wide focus on pupil achievement and development.
- Maintain effective relationships with parents and other members of the community, to ensure an excellent local reputation and to develop a partnership.
- Ensure all school resources are managed strictly within allocated budgets and ensure that value for money is at the core of all financial activities.
- Bachelor Degree
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Professional development to prepare for leadership: NPQSL / CPML or equivalent
- Masters Degree in Education or Leadership
- Professional development to prepare for headship: NPQH / CPAH or equivalent
- Experience of line managing members of staff who line manage others in turn
- Experience of contributing to staff development

**About **King's College School Soto de Vinuelas**:
**King's College School Soto de Vinuelas**
- Paseo de los Andes No 35, Soto de Vinuelas- Madrid- 28760- Spain+34 18 034 800

**Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group**

Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with over 80 premium private schools spanning six continents providing premium education to over 70,000 students ensuring they all receive a first-class learning experience from Kindergarten to Year 13.

We offer you the chance to work/live in an exciting new location, collaborate with passionate educators, develop your skills, and grow in a role that inspires you.

Please visit our careers site for further information and to see our latest opportunities **1. Local Area Information**
The main site of the school is approximately twenty km from Madrid. Largely surrounded by countryside the school offers an excellent educational environment. By September nearly all teaching rooms will be equipped with interactive whiteboards and computers linked to the whole school wireless network.

Madrid itself offers a wide range of cultural, sporting and social opportunities. The range of world class art galleries, museums and architecture really do make it one of Europe’s great cities. To the north of Madrid are a number of mountain ranges offering wildlife, superb hiking and in winter, skiing. The nearest ski station to Madrid is forty five minutes away.

On the social front, Madrid has been described as the city that never sleeps. The Madrid culture is based around the café culture. It is not unusual for the city to have traffic jams at three in the morning. Whilst the culture is lively it is never threatening unlike some city centres you may come across in the UK. The city and its surrounds offers a really good quality of life for those willing to embrace the Spanish culture.

**2. School details**
King’s College has in excess of 1500 students and will, over the next three years expand to more than 2000. It is spread over three sites with the main site being situated about twenty km out of Madrid.

Results are excellent with a 93% GCSE pass rate and a 98% pass rate at A Level. The sixth form is one of the largest in Europe and students enter into, in the main, the Russell group of universities in the UK, the Ivy League in the USA and top universities in Spain. One of the great strengths of the school is the working environment. Classrooms have the usual interactive whiteboards etc but the relationship between teachers and students is very good. A strong work ethic means teachers really can concentrate on teaching, pastoral issues do arise but behaviour issues are very rare.