Assistant Headteacher
SHARE Multi Academy Trust
Kirklees
- £49,574 - £54,816 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L3 - L7: £49,574 to £54,816
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 16 May 2024
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a dynamic Assistant Headteacher to join our leadership team. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to become part of The SHARE MAT Senior Leadership Team, then this could be your ideal career move.
To commence in September 2024, we are seeking to recruit an ambitious and dynamic Assistant Headteacher who is passionate, dedicated and has a proven track record of engaging and inspiring both pupils and colleagues alike.
Ideally, the right candidate would have experience of leading SEND, although the portfolio offered will be determined upon appointment according to the experience of the candidate.
We offer ongoing and outstanding professional development to support your leadership career including the opportunity to undertake the NPQ in Senior Leadership (NPQSL) or Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL). We know our success depends entirely on our colleagues, so we are determined to recruit and retain the best staff by offering first class training and support, as well as highly competitive terms and conditions.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be an innovative and outstanding teacher who has a clear understanding of how children learn.
- Be passionate about teaching and learning and be able to work with others to help them develop their practice;
- Have high quality teaching, pupil learning and wellbeing at the heart of everything they do;
- Have highly developed interpersonal and organisation skills;
- Have a strong commitment to supporting the Head of School to help achieve excellence and success at every level across the academy.
At SHARE MAT, we aim to:
- Equip our staff to deliver their best every day; our belief is that by Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best is the key
- Encourage all our students to go beyond what they think they can achieve, to enjoy learning, helping them to lead healthy and happy lives
- Ensure our staff are happy and healthy at work, taking pride in pupils’ progress and development
- Never stop improving, developing and sharing our practice with others
- Deliver training and guidance relevant to job role so expectations are understood and staff feel motivated
- Offer generous benefits, making us the employer of choice, including first-class developmental opportunities for teaching staff led by one of our academies, Shelley College, which is the Teaching School Hub for Kirklees and Calderdale
Due to the safer recruitment requirements for staff working in education, we cannot accept CVs. Please click the apply button to complete an application form.
Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 16th May 2024.
Interview date: 21st and 22nd May 2024.
SHARE MAT is committed to the Equalities Act 2010 and also to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children and young people, by adhering to “Keeping Children Safe in Education” guidance. All staff and volunteers are regularly trained regarding our expectations in keeping our students safe. An enhanced DBS is required for every post and an online search will be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates.
SHARE MAT comprises Woodside Green Primary, Heaton Avenue Primary, Luck Lane Primary, Millbridge Primary, Royds Hall, Shelley College, Whitcliffe Mount School and Thornhill Community Academy. A central team provides operational support.
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About SHARE Multi Academy Trust
- SHARE Multi Academy Trust
- Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield
- West Yorkshire
- HD8 8NL
- United Kingdom
The Trust officially started operating on 1st April 2015 and the members consist of:
- Heaton Avenue Primary Academy
- Lily Park Primary Academy
- Luck Lane Primary Academy
- Millbridge Primary Academy
- Woodside Green Primary Academy
- Royds Hall Academy
- Shelley College
- Thornhill Community Academy
- Whitcliffe Mount School
Our aims
To create a mutually supportive family of schools, sharing expertise and resources, to improve the quality of education for our children and young people.
Our values
Our central belief is “Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best” and we apply this to everybody in our organisation, staff and children alike. We try our best to support and encourage each other, we work hard at communicating effectively and we always try to achieve the very best we possibly can in the circumstances. We review our practice honestly and are always open to suggestions as to how we can improve further.
Professional development
Professional and career development is at the heart of what we do. In addition to our supportive appraisal systems, staff have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including internal training sessions, external courses and sharing best practice across the trust.
We are extremely pleased to have the Calderdale and Kirklees Teaching School Hub based at Shelley College, delivering teacher training (ITT), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the National Professional Qualifications.
Across our partner schools there are Subject Experts, Specialist Leaders of Education, Excellent Practitioners, trained Coaches and Mentors, as well as Outstanding Leaders offering support and training. We offer the opportunity of a career development programme that could take teachers on a journey from trainee to senior leader and beyond.
Location
We are in located in the Huddersfield/Kirklees district, with many of our schools in close proximity to a number of towns and cities including Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield. Due to the excellent road links, journey times are minimal, with many of our staff travelling from these areas on a daily basis.
Benefits
We believe in making the world a happier place to work. We do that by providing a package of flexible employee benefits, including:
• An attractive pension scheme for both Teaching and Support Staff.
• Care First – an employee assistance programme providing staff well-being support, including amongst other things: counselling, telephone helplines and stress management.
• Salary sacrifice benefit schemes - salary sacrifice enables staff to give up some of the cash value of their pay to receive other benefits which saves on tax and national insurance. The Trust currently runs the following salary sacrifice schemes:
- Cyclescheme – savings of up to 39% on the cost of a new bike.
- Techscheme – savings on the cost of desktop machines, laptops, Apple products, phones and software.
Recruitment process
Once you have completed and submitted your application form it will be reviewed by the shortlisting panel. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview via email, so please ensure you provide us with your email address and check it regularly after the closing date.
Referees will be contacted via email prior to interviews as references need to be returned to us before any offer of appointment can be made, for safer recruitment purposes. Please ensure you provide a contact email address for both of your referees.
And finally
Good luck in your application!
We look forward to hearing from you.
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