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Assistant Headteacher - Director of English

Assistant Headteacher - Director of English

All Saints Church of England Academy

Plymouth

  • £56,721 - £61,166 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
Leadership Scale 13 - 16
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2021
Apply by:
17 May 2021

Job overview

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher – Director of English. The purpose of the job will be:

• To provide professional leadership and management for the faculty in order to secure high quality teaching, effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and attainment for all pupils.

For the right candidate, who is ambitious, a place on the South West 100 Programme will be offered.  This is an exciting leadership opportunity, for 100 people next year, to develop them into Headship within 3 years.  It includes intensive coaching, training and an exciting trip to America to visit schools.  Find out more here: https://www.reachtraining.org/sw100/

All Saints Academy is school in the heart of Plymouth.  We are a small school and have 650 students on roll (full capacity).  We value our staff and do this by having sensible policies and clear systems in place, such as:

• We do not expect staff to write endless feedback to students.  We do not do WWW or EBI but instead have a fast whole class feedback approach and live marking.

• We do not expect you to set homework. This is already planned and set for you with our ‘Need to Know’ Booklets.

• You will not be expected to attend pointless meetings. We value CPD time and to that extent have weekly department and whole staff CPD.

• We do not grade lessons or have formal observations.  Instead we invest in incremental coaching, where all staff have a trained coach to watch parts of a lesson and feedback.  You will get more out of this than any formal observation or training course.

• We value our future leaders and, along with the Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust, we invest in the talent development of our staff.

• Your lessons won’t be disrupted by poor behaviour as we have a place where students go if they can’t focus in your lesson.

• Lesson resources are prepared for you, using high quality schemes of learning developed by expert leaders across our school and the Trust.  We use booklets in lessons for students to work in, fully resourced. You will be free to deliver these how you please, but there is no need or expectation to be planning every night of the week!

• We offer a staff attendance reward policy, where staff can claim vouchers.

• We have corporate membership to the Elfordleigh Hotel and use this for staff events/training. Staff can also access discounted membership rates for their spa and sports.

• Staff can access free health checks with Nuffield Health.

We wish to appoint an outstanding candidate for the role, who has an excellent track record for improving outcomes for children and a willingness to go the ‘extra mile’, such as offering extra curricular clubs for our students.  We are part of the Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust.

This Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Closing date: 17 May, 10am    Interviews: W/C 24 May

To hear more about this exciting opportunity please contact our recruitment partner Tracy Laverack whose details you will find on the back page of the Information Pack which appears as an attachment to this advertisement.

Attached documents

About All Saints Church of England Academy

Welcome to All Saints Academy, Plymouth!

We are a school committed to securing your child excellent Academic and Professional outcomes. There are approximately 600 students on roll mostly from our local communities of Honicknowle and Ham which we are proud to serve. With a dedicated and caring staff body, our students live our core values of Love, Legacy & Bravery.

We have excellent new purpose-built facilities here which students use. We are the only Church of England secondary academy in Plymouth and are committed to educating students of the Christian faith, those who belong to other faiths and those who subscribe to no faith.

We have the highest expectations of our students here and ensure they go on to achieve their best. We do not accept excuses for not committing to the All Saints’ values and that is what helps students succeed. We believe in the transformational power of education and are committed to helping our pupils achieve their dreams, whether it’s to be the first in their family to go to university or the first to own their own business.

We were inspected in May 2019 by the Church inspection team and they graded us as a good school in all areas. We are part of the Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust which allows partnership working for the benefit of all of our students with other schools in Devon.

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