Headteacher

Headteacher Tettenhall Wood School - Advert

Salary Grade: Leadership Scale 27 to 33 (£83,956 - £97,256)                                        Full Time, Permanent

Start Date: January 2024

Closing Date: Friday 14th July – 9:00am

Shortlisting Date: Monday 17th July 2023

Candidates will be informed on this date

Interview Day 1: Thursday 20th July 2023 followed by shortlisting for day 2                       

Interview Day 2: Friday 21st July 2023

Visits to the school: To arrange a visit to the school with Nicola Licata, CEO please contact Hannah Creamer, PA to the Executive Team at hcreamer@aatrust.co.uk

School website: www.tettenhallwoodschool.org.uk

Amethyst Academies Trust are recruiting for a Headteacher for Tettenhall Wood School, an inspirational specialist provision for children aged 4-19 with ASD. At Tettenhall Wood school we offer a specialist autistic and SEND provision that is a place of opportunity for all our learners to achieve the best of their abilities and making a valued contribution to society. We do this through aspirational teaching ensuring outstanding outcomes for each individual.

Due to our current Headteacher working as part of our Central Team, Amethyst Academies Trust are looking to recruit a courageous, inspiring Headteacher with a proven track record of delivering high educational standards for all students. We are seeking an exceedingly driven school leader who has the vision, strategy and persistence to drive the school improvement agenda forward, engaging students, staff and the community during the next stage of this schools’ journey.

If you are committed to making a difference for every young person, value diversity and inclusivity, respect differences and have the creativity and tenacity to build upon the strengths of our current team, we would like you to join us. 

Amethyst Academies Trust is a Multi Academy Trust comprising of two secondary schools and two special schools with over 550 employees and over 3000 students, based in Wolverhampton. We are unyielding in ensuring that all of our schools are able to provide the very best experiences for the students, families and communities in which we serve, and actively support our Headteachers to do so.

Amethyst Academies Trust’s central team’s infrastructure supports operational delivery, enabling the Headteacher to focus on education and developing outstanding teaching and learning.

We are looking for a Headteacher who will be passionate and able to inspire learners to reach their full potential within their own class whilst impacting on improved quality of education. They must have:

• Proven exceptional experience of working with learners with an autistic spectrum condition, severe and complex learning difficulties and behaviours that challenge
• Strong curriculum knowledge and proven success in improving standards
• The ability to work within a caring and safe environment, reflecting the school's priority of placing learners at the heart of all it does and continuously fulfilling the values and ethos of Tettenhall Wood School
• The ability to continuously raise standards for our learners and improve their outcomes and quality of life
• Skills that are creative, proactive, resourceful, energetic and very well organised
• The ability to develop their own professional development to ensure they have up to date knowledge, skills and understanding in teaching learners with severe/complex learning difficulties
• A leader with high expectations who has the required charisma to inspire the very highest expectations for all students and staff    
• Is completely committed to the development of both students and staff    
• Is committed to working collaboratively with the CEO, fellow Headteachers in the Trust and the Central Team    
• Actively embraces accountability    
• Will ensure consistently effective teaching and challenging but inclusive curriculum plans   
• Will actively seek to provide the very best learning environment for our growing student population 

In return we can offer:    

• An exciting opportunity to be part of the Executive Team of Amethyst Academies Trust
• A supportive and creative Executive Team that challenge each other to be the very best    
• An environment where collaboration is key to our success    
• Teachers' terms and conditions    
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme    
• A commitment to staff well-being

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Safeguarding 

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2022.

This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (2020) 

Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website. DBS Filtering Guide 

Equality Duty

As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010