Assistant School Health and Wellbeing Manager

Dear prospective applicant,

Thank you for taking the time to read about this role and our school. CHCC is in the top 12% of schools nationally and blends a 70-year history of inclusive education with an innovative, forward-looking approach to providing a state education like no other to 1500 students from inner-city backgrounds.

This is a unique opportunity for the right person to lead a team of dedicated professionals as the Assistant Manager for Health, Wellbeing and Community. Inspire Together have just undertaken a major rebranding which reflects a change in direction for us where we are no longer focussed solely on school sports, but across our 6 delivery strands of Inclusion, High Quality Competition, Leadership, Health & Wellbeing, Community and High-Quality Physical Education.

We are looking for an energetic, inspirational and forward-thinking individual to work alongside the existing leadership team across ‘Inspire Together’ with key responsibility for developing the Health & Wellbeing and Community strands. This role is full-time and paid on LG band 7 (£29,174-£31,895). Your contract will be with Crown Hills Community College and as such you will receive a number of further benefits. These include a dedicated oce space, work laptop, work mobile phone, continual professional development, Health Shield Health Insurance, no emails at the weekend or after 8pm and during holidays, administrative support, 24 hours a day/365 days a year phone counselling service and a cycle to Work scheme.

What we are building in ‘Inspire Together’ is truly unique; there is no blue print that we are following and we are one of the first in the country to have a vision so ambitious and all encompassing. Our aim is to go beyond school sports and have a positive impact on the young people in Leicester, their families and their communities.

The successful candidate will have oversight for the development of Health & Wellbeing and Community work within the leadership team of the Assistant Principal for Physical Education and Sport, the Inspire Together Manager and the Assistant Manager for Competition & Leadership. You will develop important links to community partners including the city HAF programme and the wider offer to engage young people in physical activity and to develop an active habit for life to support a healthier, happier future generation. Building relationships with wider partners and consulting with young people, families and influential members of the community will be key to building sustainable links to support whole school health and wellbeing outcomes.

Through the Health and Wellbeing strand you will manage a group of coaches and oversee their work programme and refine the programmes themselves. You will also horizon scan for opportunities to expand and develop both the team and the programmes. The community strand has elements such as the HAF camps but is largely a blank canvas. As such it requires someone with the knowledge and skills to provide opportunities which will develop physical activity initiatives within the community and an innovative approach to engaging young people and their families in a healthier, happier lifestyle. You should also be able to demonstrate a positive track record of leading others to achieve the same outcomes.

How we lead is as important as the direction we are taking our team in. You need to have the emotional intelligence to deal with sensitive matters with clarity as well as trusting those around you to deliver and, when needed, have tough love conversations to improve delivery. We have 127 primary, secondary and special schools in our Inspire Together network and making strong professional relationships with a variety of groups of people in a dynamic environment is paramount to our success and a key part of the role.

We have a very defined way of leading at CHCC and you need to be able to lead in that way, please look at our well-being charter, which has a strong focus on leadership and the way that leaders lead at CHCC following the THIRST Values.

At Crown Hills we sincerely believe that if we lead by staying true to our values, then being at the forefront of educational excellence to provide an outstanding experience for the children in our care is possible, even in this extremely difficult climate of ever-increasing accountability and diminishing resources. The collective team at the college has spent time exploring what it is we stand for and, after a school-wide consultation, we decided that ASPIRATION, COMMITMENT and SUCCESS are the three key drivers that will support the development of our pupils. We are very clear that the gender, background, colour, poverty, wealth or social status of a child should have no bearing on how well they perform and staff here work extremely hard in trying to close that gap between the different groups of pupils.

If you would like to discuss the role, please contact the Inspire Together Manager Dan Hewins at dhewins@crownhills.leicester. sch.uk. We are looking for the role to start as soon as possible, but are happy to discuss terms with the right candidate.

Please read the attached job description and person specification. If you are interested in applying, please fill in the application form available on our website: www.crownhills.com. Please include e-mail addresses of all referees, and e-mail it to sfranklin@crownhills.leicester.sch.uk by 9am on Monday 3rd October 2022.

To understand the role fully and to give yourself the best chance of a successful application it is expected that you attend our online information evening via Teams on Thursday 29th September at 5pm. This will be your opportunity to explore the role further, to meet the management team and to ask any further questions that you may have. If you are unable to attend you should request a recording of the information evening.

Please contact Rachael Barnett at rbarnett@crownhills.leicester.sch.uk to conrm your attendance or ask for the recording.

Online information evening – Thursday 29th September, 5pm.

Deadline for applications - Monday 3rd October, 9am.

Proposed interview Date – Tuesday 11th October 2022.

I look forward to meeting you and receiving your application.

Yours sincerely,

Mr F Adam

(Principal)