Assistant Headteacher (Secondary Lead)

Location: Aurora Cedars, Wolverhampton

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Salary: L1-L5

Closing Date: 16th  May with interviews on 20th May

The Aurora Group

 The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

 As part of our growth strategy; we’re really pleased to have opened a brand new Primary and Secondary ASC/SEMH school last year in Wolverhampton with a proposed capacity of 80 students aged between 5-19. 

We are currently looking for an Assistant Headteacher to join us. The building has been redeveloped into an amazing learning environment with facilities to allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve.

 The Headteacher is looking for fun, passionate, dedicated, and driven staff to help support her vision for the pupils and the school environment. She is committed to offering a truly unique workplace environment, embedded with a supportive culture, positive ethos, strong teamwork, and personal drive, with further career opportunities as both the school and Aurora, as a company, grows.     

 The main purpose of the role:

•  The assistant headteacher will support the headteacher and deputy headteacher in:
• Communicating the school’s vision compellingly and supporting the headteacher’s strategic leadership
• The day-to-day management of the school
•  Formulating the aims and objectives of the school
•  Establishing policies for achieving these aims and objectives
•  Managing staff and resources to that end
•  Monitoring progress towards meeting the school’s aims and objectives

The assistant headteacher will also have a timetabled teaching commitment of up to 50% complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others.

The assistant headteacher will be responsible for the secondary phase of the school. Encompassing curriculum, progress, attainment and qualifications with a focus on leading personal development.

Key duties:

Leadership and Management

A member of the senior leadership team (SLT) required to take a shared responsibility for providing vision, strategic direction, and leadership to the school.

Teaching and Learning – Lead teaching and learning to support the achievement of students, taking specific responsibility for secondary education, qualifications and personal development.

Behaviour and Attendance – Lead these key areas within the school in order to support the achievement of students, taking specific responsibility for whole school monitoring and interventions that generate measurable improvements.

 Safeguarding – to support SLT with the safety of the students, school and staff as per school policies. 

 Community – Promote and model excellent relationships with parents and carers.

 A Full job description is available on request. Please email Karen in the recruitment team at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com

  Experience and Qualifications:

•  Qualified Teacher status
• Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
• Experience of working with young people with ASD
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedure
• Ability to create and maintain nurturing relationships with young people
•  Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety
• Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners important
•  A flexible approach and a high level creativity
• Experience of managing staff and teams 

 What’s on offer?

 Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

 How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

 The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

 The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.