Health, Wellbeing and Community Manager

Dear prospective applicant, 

Thank you for taking the time to read about this role and our school. CHCC is in the top 12% of schools nationally and blends a 70-year history of inclusive education with an innovative, forward-looking approach to providing a state education like no other to 1500 students from inner city backgrounds.

This is a truly unique opportunity for the right person to lead a team of dedicated professionals as manager for Health, 

Wellbeing and Community. Inspire Together have just undertaken a rebranding and will be know as ‘Inspire Together – A healthier, happier future generation’ from September 2022. This reflects a change in direction for us where we are no longer focussed solely on school sports but across our 6 delivery strands of Inclusion, High Quality Competition, Leadership, Health and Wellbeing, Community and High Quality Physical Education. 

We are looking for an energetic, inspirational and forward-thinking manger to Lead across ‘Inspire Together’ with key responsibility for developing the Health and Wellbeing, Community and High Quality Physical Education strands. This role is fulltime and paid on LG band 9 (£36,371 - £39,571). Your contract will be with Crown Hills Community College and as such you will receive a number of further benefits. These include a dedicated office space, work laptop, work mobile phone, continual professional development, Health Shield Health Insurance, no emails at the weekend or after 8pm and during holidays, administrative support, 24 hours a day/365 days a year phone counselling service and a cycle to Work scheme.

The successful candidate will have oversight for the development of Health and Wellbeing, Community and High Quality and work within the senior leadership team of the Assistant Principal for Physical Education and Sport and manager for School Sport and Inclusion. You will develop important links to community programmes and the wider offer to engage young people in physical activity, and to develop an active habit for life. Building relationships with wider partners and consulting with young people, families and influential members of the community will be key to building sustainable links to support whole school health and wellbeing outcomes.

What we are building in ‘Inspire Together’ is truly unique; there is no blue print that we are following and we are one of the first in the country to have a vision so ambitious and all encompassing. Our aim is to go beyond school sports and have a positive impact on the young people in Leicester, their families and their communities.

To be successful, you will possess a proven record of providing opportunities and having an impact on health and wellbeing, developing physical activity in the community and understanding of what constitutes high quality physical education in schools. You should also be able to demonstrate a positive track record of leading others to achieve the same outcomes. 

How we lead is as important as the direction we are taking staff in. You need to have the emotional intelligence to deal with sensitive matters with clarity as well as trusting those around you to deliver and, when needed, have tough love conversations to improve delivery. We have 127 primary, secondary and special schools in Inspire Together and making strong professional relationships with a variety of groups of people in a dynamic environment is paramount, and a key part of the role.

Crown Hills Community College is an exhilarating and innovative school that produces exceptional progress for its learners and will make a significant contribution to the lives and opportunities of our families.

Over the past three years, the school has changed significantly not only in its performance but in the way it operates. We are not interested in the OFSTED grade or judgement and it is not something that we use to threaten staff with nor do we use it to set policy. We do what is best for the staff and the students underpinned by a set of clear values and we trust that everything else will take care of itself. I would therefore, urge you to visit us and to look at our website and the video about what it is that we stand for and why you would want to join us - https://www.crownhills.com/join-us/

I want us to be at the forefront of educational excellence because we want to provide the best educational experience  possible for the children in our care. This is extremely difficult in a climate of ever-increasing accountability and diminishing resources.

However, I sincerely believe that if we lead this community by staying true to our values then it is possible.I have therefore spent time with staff and exploring what it is we stand for and, after a school-wide consultation, we have decided that ASPIRATION, COMMITMENT and SUCCESS are the three key drivers that will support the development of our pupils.

Crown Hills is a founding school within the “WelI Schools” movement and I sit on the board as well as being an advocate Head teacher for the YST. My approach and therefore our approach to leadership at CHCC is summarised in my podcast with the Youth Sport Trust. https://www.buzzsprout.com/273805/9656144 you can expect to be led in this way too and if not have the license to challenge it.

We have a very defined way of leading at CHCC and you need to be able to lead in that way, please look at our well-being charter, which has a string focus on leadership and the way that leaders lead at CHCC.

If you would like to discuss the role, please contact the Assistant Principal Ian O’Flynn on io’flynn@crownhills.leicester.sch.uk

We are looking for the role to start as soon as possible so that there is a sufficient handover with the current post holder.

We are very clear that the gender, background, colour, poverty, wealth or social status of a child should have no bearing on how well they perform and staff here work extremely hard in trying to close that gap between the different groups of pupils.

Please read the attached job description and person specification. If you are interested in applying, please fill in the application form available on our website: www.crownhills.com. Please include e-mail addresses of all referees, and e-mail it to jamey@crownhills.leicester.sch.uk by 9am on Tuesday 5th July 2022.

Deadline for applicants is to jamey@crownhills.leicester.sch.uk by Tuesday 5th July 2022 @ 9am.

Interview Date – Tuesday 12th July 2022