Assistant Headteacher - SENCO
Holly Lodge High School College of Science
Sandwell
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale – LP 11-15
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2018 (or sooner)
- Apply by:
- 9 July 2017
Job overview
We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity to join our School Leadership Team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in leading, developing and supporting effective practice for pupils with SEND. You will lead a team of dedicated staff in establishing and implementing a range of support and interventions for our SEND pupils across the school to ensure each learner achieves their full potential.
The successful candidate will be passionate about inclusion, a champion for all pupils and an advocate for some of our most vulnerable pupils. You should be confident with using data to evaluate the impact of support and interventions. Whether you are at the start of your SENCO career or have a wealth of experience, we are interested in talking with you about how you will help us to create outstanding inclusive provision and life-changing opportunities and outcomes for our pupils.
Holly Lodge is a thriving and exciting 11-19 school, which has made significant progress in recent years. In 2016 the schools key stage 4 results showed progress 8 measures significantly above national. Post 16 results have demonstrated a year on year improvement in both academic and vocational outcomes.
We currently have over 1450 students on roll, which is steadily increasing due to rapid improvements that the school has successfully made. We are part of the ‘building schools for the future’ programme with a new £23.5 million school that completed in September 2011 offering state of the art teaching and learning facilities.
Our latest OFSTED inspection in February 2017 judged that ‘the school continues to be good’. ‘The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school and is fully committed to creating a culture of continuous improvement’.
If you are an outstanding teacher with a blend of SENCO, leadership and management experience and the interpersonal skills to help motivate pupils and staff, we would love to hear from you!
For further information about the school, the post, and to apply, please visit our website or contact Mike Sherwin.
Closing date: Monday 10th July 2017 at 10:00am
Interview to be held Thursday 13th and Friday 14th July 2017
T 0116 2532389 or 07525 889925
E hollylodge@hays.com
W www.hays.co.uk/jobs/holly-lodge-school
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff & volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure
About Holly Lodge High School College of Science
- Holly Lodge High School College of Science
- Holly Lane, Sandwell, Smethwick
- West Midlands
- B67 7JG
- United Kingdom
Holly Lodge High School is a state comprehensive secondary school and sixth form for children aged 11-19 located in the town of Smethwick, West Midlands. The school serves a diverse community with high indicators of economic disadvantage.
Headteacher
Mr Imran Iqbal
Vision and Values
The vision for Holly Lodge is encapsulated in three words: Ambition, Opportunity and Community. We believe that every child, regardless of their background or starting point, is entitled to a world-class education in the best that has been thought, said and made, and that they should be equipped for joining the great conversations of humankind, shaping the future and living truly rewarding and meaningful lives. We believe in the power of expertly developed, subject specialist curriculum, alongside research-informed teaching approaches, high expectations for behaviour, and excellent pastoral care in achieving this vision. We are ambitious for the experience of our staff as well as our students: in terms of well-being, professional development and career progression. At Holly Lodge there is no written marking of books, no written reports and no graded lesson observations: we believe in stripping away performative documents and activities that have little impact, in order to make time for the things that really make a difference. We believe that the key to staff wellbeing is sensible workload and a positive professional culture, and we place these at the heart of everything we do.
If you share our values and want to be part of a team which champions ambition, opportunity and community, then please see our applications pack for more information. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ofsted
“Underpinning the strong progress made in many subjects, and especially in English, is the rapid development of students’ literacy and language skills. Students make particularly impressive gains in their reading skills and in their general interest in and enjoyment of literature. ‘We all read every night’, said one Year 9 boy browsing through the very well-stocked shelves of the school’s large library, before explaining to the inspector why he loved the books of Roald Dahl.”
The full report into Holly Lodge High School can be found here.
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