Associate Assistant Headteacher

ASSOCIATE ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER

Director of Continuous Professional Learning

Salary starting at L4

Required for September 2024

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and ambitious leader to play a key role in the next step on our journey to providing an outstanding quality of education for every child.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, experienced professional to broaden their experience and further develop their leadership and management skills.

Responsibilities:

· To trial, model and showcase impactful teaching in your own classroom

· To track and quality assure planned professional growth learning activity for all teaching staff

· Build a culture of trust and professional engagement and challenge based on evidence and knowledge

· To identify the learning and training needs of teaching staff at their various levels of expertise (working with a Professional Growth Coach)

· To lead the continuous professional learning programme with the Senior Assistant Headteacher, upholding the ethos that there are no great schools without great teachers

· To lead the team of ‘Leaders of Learning’ and ‘Instructional Coaches’ to provide impactful teaching development and professional learning to all

· To provide opportunities for participant feedback, linking teacher practice to student experiences and outcomes

We are very proud of our dedicated and caring staff team; hard-working and well-behaved children and our vibrant learning environment. We are committed to ensuring that children of all abilities and backgrounds achieve their very best in everything they do. We are also committed to growing the talent in all our staff, enabling them to flourish and succeed.

We are looking for a candidate who:

• Is an excellent classroom practitioner with a love of teaching and an enthusiasm for ensuring that every child achieves their full potential

• Is passionate about children’s learning, with a proven track record of raising attainment and accelerating progress

• Is an experienced leader who has previously worked in a TLR or similar leadership role

• Is keen to progress in their career and have an influence on teaching and learning beyond their own classroom

• Has the drive and ambition to go the extra mile to make great things happen at Caludon Castle

We can offer:

• The opportunity to take a full and strategic role in the leadership of the school

• Ongoing professional development, including access to senior leadership development and the opportunity to work alongside assistant headteachers within our Trust secondary schools

• The opportunity to work as part of an experienced and successful leadership team with a proven track record of securing school improvement both within our school and across schools within our Trust

• A supportive, friendly and hardworking staff team who are united in their drive to achieve the very best outcomes for every child

• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing and recognition, through the Trust people strategy, and a range of benefits which include the provision of an iPad, the teachers’ pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, an employee discount scheme and a commitment to developing the use of new technologies to support learning and streamline workload

• A supportive Trust and local governing body who are committed to helping the school move forwards

If you are committed to ensuring that every child achieves their very best and enjoy making a difference, then come and see us in action and find out more about what this role can offer

Visits and applications:

Visits to the school prior to application are strongly encouraged and will be warmly welcomed. We would be delighted to meet you and talk about the opportunity. To arrange a visit or discuss the role in more detail, please contact Stacy Hands.

Application deadline: 09.00am on Wednesday 8 May 2024

Interviews: w/c 13 May 2024

If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date for applications, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.

Please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2022.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and young people and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance.

Staff are accountable for the way in which they exercise authority, manage risk, use resources and protect students, who they are responsible for or in contact with, from discrimination and avoidable harm. All staff, where paid or voluntary, have a duty to keep young people safe and to protect them from harm. When an individual accepts a role that involves working with children and young people they need to understand acknowledge that the responsibilities and trust are inherent to that role. There will be a requirement that staff observe their obligations in accordance with the Trust’s safeguarding procedure and report any concerns in accordance with the procedure to the appropriate person.