Head of KS5 English

Head of KS5 English

Full time, Permanent

Main scale plus TLR2B

To start: April or September 2023

We are seeking to appoint a full time, dedicated and inspiring KS5 Lead to provide leadership in the development and management of Key Stage 5 English Language and Literature from September 2023. You will join a forward-looking and dynamic English team which is warm and friendly, with high expectations of everyone. We aim to raise student aspirations to achieve personal and academic excellence and to ensure they have the skills, confidence and resilience to become passionate life-long learners with the desire to fulfil their potential and more.

The successful candidate will join our popular and flourishing Faculty, with a focus on innovation and sharing good practice. We are looking for a KS5 Lead who has a genuine enthusiasm for teaching English and who has the ability to engage and motivate students. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow, inspire and develop, this may be the role for you.

The Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:   

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.       
•  Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.       
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:  http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf  

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact ashley.brown@arnoldhillacademy.co.uk

To apply to work with Spencer Academies Trust, please complete your candidate profile via our new Every Portal. If you are accessing our Every portal for the first time, we have added a video to help guide you, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656  

Please submit your application by no later than 9am, Friday 21 April 2023. Our application deadline can end earlier where we have received a positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible.

Interviews are scheduled to take place Tuesday 2 May 2023

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.

In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for prior to interview.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer