Assistant Head Teacher DSL
Shenley Academy
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- L10 - L14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 11 December 2020
Job overview
Senior Leadership Team – Assistant Headteacher
Designated Safeguarding Lead
We are looking for an experienced, inspirational and ambitious Assistant Headteacher to be part of the Senior Leadership team within the academy. You will play a key role in providing highly efficient, highly effective leadership and management of the academy.
Shenley Academy has been under new leadership since April 2019. The new leadership team, supported by the whole-body staff, work together to drive our ethos of inspiring & aspiring our students to achieve.
The Assistant Headteacher of Safeguarding should be prepared to lead on such areas as ethos, systems and procedures. As a member of the senior leadership team, the Assistant Headteacher will also be centrally involved in the overall leadership and management of the academy and will help to establish a school culture that is both nurturing and rigorous.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, inspiring Assistant Headteacher - DSL who:
• Develop the academy as a catalyst for social change, improving the outcomes for pupils and the community as a whole.
• Develop, in all pupils and staff, versatile skills and attitudes required for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
• Deputise for the Senior Assistant Headteacher or Headteacher in their absence where required.
• The Designated Safeguarding Lead for Child Protection will provide comprehensive support to the Designated Senior Lead and Headteacher in dealing with all aspects of Child Protection.
For a full description of the role see the job description and job specification on Jobtrain.
We will offer you:
The support of a highly capable educational and operational regional team
Extensive CPD opportunities
The ability to concentrate on supporting the Headteacher with school improvement and putting the student welfare at the heart of it.
What we value: Our values are our anchor point and underpin all we do.
Thinking Big
For themselves and for the world around them by thinking beyond the four walls of their academy, and having the belief that anything they aspire to achieve is possible through hard work.
Doing the right thing
In all that they do by carefully thinking through their decisions, even when it means doing something that’s hard or takes a lot of time.
Showing team spirit
By supporting one another, and knowing that by working together great things can be achieved.
If you feel you would thrive within this role, then we would love to hear from you.
Advert Closing Date: Friday 11th December 2020 – 12 Noon
Interview Date: TBC
Safeguarding Statement:
All E-ACT academies, the Ambassadors and Headteachers are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, and undergo appropriate checks including an enhanced DBS check. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
About Shenley Academy
E-ACT is a highly successful Multi Academy Trust (MAT) encompassing 28 Academies spanning the length breath of the country. Our hopes and aspirations of every one of our pupils is the same. By encouraging them to Think Big and believe that anything is possible, by showing them the importance of Team Spirit and by teaching them to carefully think through their decisions to do The Right Thing, we know that everyone of our pupils can realise their potential with us.
Our community includes over 18,000 pupils and 2,500 teaching and non-teaching professional across the country.
Shenley Academy is a good school (OFSTED, July 2021) with leadership and management, behaviour and personal development all judged as outstanding. You would be joining a forward-thinking academy which places the mental health and the wellbeing of staff and students at the heart of what we do. "The school’s motto, ‘Building futures, changing lives’, is exactly what happens here. Everyone involved in the school is committed to every pupil’s welfare, well-being and academic success. Pupils’ mental health is front and centre in leaders’ thinking and decision-making. As a result, pupils thrive and achieve well." (OFSTED, 2021).
Located in the Weoley Castle area of southwest Birmingham, Shenley provides an attractive, calm and orderly environment, where students are encouraged to grow into polite and well-mannered individuals. The building is bright and spacious, and the huge 30 acre site provides outstanding outdoor learning facilities. A new £24m building for the Academy was completed and opened in September 2012, providing state-of-the-art facilities for students and staff.
Specialist teaching areas are equipped to a very high standard. The building comprises excellent indoor and outdoor sports areas, a theatre with tiered, and a Learning Resource Centre that is extensively used by the students for personal study.
With a £1.4m investment in ICT and staff training in the use of ICT to improve learning, Shenley is rapidly achieving its aim of becoming one of the most advanced state schools in the use of new technology.
The Academy has created an inclusive community where students feel valued, supported and engaged in their learning. In turn, staff expect high standards, and emphasise the basics: good manners, hard work, good behavior, smart uniform, good attendance and punctuality. These help create a positive attitude which in turn supports success. Students are also taken off timetable for Immersion Days and special events or visits such as those to universities, residentials, music tuition or maths challenges.
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