Assistant Headteacher
Co-op Academy Woodlands
Leeds
- £53,380 - £58,959 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership pay range L6 - L10
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 25 March 2024
Job overview
Assistant Headteacher | Co-op Academy Woodlands
Permanent | Full-time | Required for September 2024
Leadership pay range L6-L10 | £53,380-£58,959 plus amazing benefits
Co-op Academy Woodlands is a large primary school situated in East Leeds and forms part of the 32 schools in the Co-op Academies Trust. Woodlands is an inspiring place to work and learn and as part of the Co-op Academies Trust, aim to secure excellence in all aspects of its work.
We are currently seeking to appoint a talented and inspirational Assistant Headteacher. This is a key role within our Senior Leadership Team at Woodlands; a fantastic opportunity for someone with drive, enthusiasm and high aspirations to work in partnership with the Headteacher and other leaders to make a real difference to our Academy and young people. You will lead by example and inspire and develop others, building on our many successes and driving forward Academy improvement.
With this in mind, we are seeking to appoint an ambitious and engaging Assistant Headteacher; someone who can help shape and deliver a shared vision for the future and who will take a lead in the next steps of embedding the Academy’s non-core subjects curriculum and support the SLT to develop and improve teaching and learning across the academy.
You must be able to:
- develop excellent provision for our wonderful pupils and their families
- lead and develop our committed staff team
- work effectively with governors, Trust colleagues and other partners
- be highly motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and solution focused
- have a good track record of raising standards and curriculum leadership
- be committed to developing positive behaviour
- be an exceptional leader and be able to get the best out of others
- drive school improvement, relishing the challenge of creating our future
- lead on maintaining excellent standards in the Quality of Education and welfare of all
- live the Co-op values
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our ‘Good’ school (Ofsted 2018), joining a highly motivated and forward-thinking staff team and contributing to our next level of successful development.
We welcome interest from existing Assistant Headteachers, looking to further develop their career in a large primary academy supported by a highly regarded Trust as well as those from talented and ambitious subject leaders looking for their next step in academy leadership.
So, if you’re a committed educationalist, understand school improvement and with a belief in the power of co-operation to achieve great things - please get in touch with us.
Contact
If you fancy an informal chat about the role and the academy, please get in touch via email –
adele.clark@coopacademies.co.uk. It is highly recommended that you come and visit the school and you can arrange this by emailing Carol Gray at carol.gray@coopacademies.co.uk.
Applications to be completed through TES online.
Co-op Academy Woodlands is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments are made subject to an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service and a medical declaration.
“Co-op Academies Trust, as an aware employer is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority. This commitment to robust recruitment, selection and induction procedures extends to organisations and services linked to the Trust on its behalf”.
Closing date: Monday 25th March 2024 at 9am
Shortlisting: Monday 25th March 2024
Observations in your current school Tuesday 26th March
Interviews: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Attached documents
About Co-op Academy Woodlands
- Co-op Academy Woodlands
- Foundry Place, Leeds
- West Yorkshire
- LS9 6DA
- United Kingdom
About us:
Woodlands Primary Academy is a large inner city primary school situated in inner East Leeds. We have had a successful OFSTED inspection in 2014 and are a rapidly developing school. We have a committed, hard-working and optimistic staff and fantastic, friendly and hardworking children. Our parents and wider community are very supportive of the school.
As an Academy sponsored by the Co-operative Group, we ensure that values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity govern our work, as does our commitment to openness, honesty, social responsibility and caring for others. We are a culturally diverse academy and we are committed to providing the best possible education for our children. Our curriculum and the consistent approach to behaviour and attitudes results in a welcoming positive climate; where children are welcomed whatever their background and educational history and quickly become part of the school community.
The Academy is part of the Co-operative Academies Trust (CAT), a multi-academy trust with academies in Leeds, Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent.
Benefits of working for us:
- A high level of support
- Very good professional development opportunities and in service training package A friendly and positive staff team
- Friendly and hard-working children
- Supportive parents
- As one of four Primary Academies within the Co-operative Academies Trust we can offer a valuable support system from a strong and growing network of partner schools.
- The opportunity to work under the ethics and values of our sponsor, the Co-operative Group.
- Co-operative Academies Trust benefits package including discount gym memberships & leisure offers, childcare vouchers, cycle to work, Co-op Credit Union, season ticket & rental deposit loans, cash-back healthcare scheme and co-operative discount offers.
Woodlands Primary Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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