Assistant Headteacher
Kingsmead School
Staffordshire
- £61,882 - £68,400 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale L12 to L16
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 15 April 2024
Job overview
Assistant Headteacher
Salary: Leadership Scale L12 to L16, £61,882 to £68,400 per annum
Permanent post required for September 2024
John Taylor Multi Academy Trust (JTMAT) believes in the power of education to improve lives – and the world. As a partner academy in JTMAT, we are seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher with strategic leadership for Safeguarding and Attendance to join our ever-evolving organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Kingsmead; a highly successful school with outstanding outcomes, students and staff. The successful candidate will have responsibility for whole school safeguarding as the DSL and for driving whole school attendance and student well-being. As part of the school’s executive leadership, you will work closely with the Assistant Heads for Behaviour and Progress and will line manage and support a team of highly skilled and trained professionals to ensure that children at Kingsmead are happy, safe and successful.
If you are interested in joining us on the next stage of our journey, we appreciate what a huge decision moving school is and would love to show Kingsmead to you ahead of an application. If you have a passion for excellence and share our vision, we can offer you the opportunity to be part of a successful and progressive Trust, which is committed to ensuring learning is at the heart of all we do.
If you would like to discuss this role or book a visit, please contact Maria Mincher, Headteacher by emailing m.mincher@kingsmeadschool.net or telephone 01543 227320
Completed application forms should be emailed to recruitment@kingsmeadschool.net
Only fully completed application forms will be submitted for shortlisting. CVs will not be accepted.
Please refer to the two job descriptions for full details of this post.
Closing date: Monday 15th April 2024 at 12.00pm
Selection/Interview: Friday 19th April 2024
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Please note if you are shortlisted, an online search will be carried out before interview which may identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview. Please review our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants for the lawful basis for processing and retention.
John Taylor MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Pre-employment checks include an enhanced disclosure and barring service check as a requirement of this post. Our Safeguarding Policy is available on our website, and we encourage applicants to review it before applying.
Please review our Recruitment Pack on the school website before submitting your application.
Attached documents
About Kingsmead School
- Kingsmead School
- Kings Avenue, Littleworth, Hednesford, Cannock
- Staffordshire
- WS12 1DH
- United Kingdom
Welcome to Kingsmead. We are a community of 1400 students and staff, on the edge of Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. We are an ambitious school with aspirations to be outstanding in all that we do for our students.
Head of School
Maria Mincher
Our Vision
At Kingsmead we understand that each child is unique: we strive to unlock the potential every person has no matter what role they hold within our school. We do this by removing any barriers to success, recruiting the best staff and challenging them to be outstanding in their day-to-day practice. We demand the highest commitment from teachers, governors and students.
We do this for our students, parents and local community and believe that our values; resilience, innovation, mindfulness and employability will help us reach this goal.
Kingsmead is a school for taking chances, it is a school to excel in, it is a school that will always challenge you to try harder, to do better, to be honest with yourself and proud of what you achieve.
Our Values
Our values help build our students' character and achieve our school vision. They are to be:
+ Resilience
+ Innovation
+ Mindfulness
+ Employability
At Kingsmead we all share these values and we like to show it in everything we say and do. We take pride in finding every individual's talent and making them the best that they can be.
It is our obsession.
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