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John Spendluffe Foundation Technology College

Lincolnshire

  • £76,141 - £88,187 per year
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  • Expired
Salary:
Leadership Scale 25 - 31
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2021
Apply by:
15 March 2021

Job overview

John Spendluffe Technology College is a popular and oversubscribed, non-selective, converter secondary Academy serving the community of Alford, in Lincolnshire. The town is on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds (a designated AONB) and close to the coast. Our ethos places the child at the centre of every strategy to enable social mobility and enhance life chances in an increasingly demanding world. Our inclusive, caring and nurturing approach to helping students fulfil their goals and ambitions in life is well respected within the wider community.

The Governors are seeking to appoint an inspirational Headteacher with significant senior leadership experience who demonstrates passion, ambition and drive to lead the school in its next stage of development. The candidate will need to be proactive, strategic, resilient and determined to ensure that the aspirations of our students and their families are achievable goals.

JSTC is an outward facing school, working collaboratively with a range of partners to develop effective professional practice across all of our staff and ambitious leadership at all levels. 

Are you:

• an experienced senior leader?

• ambitious for our students to gain the skills, knowledge and experience to achieve their goals?

• an innovative leader able articulate their vision?

• a motivator of people?

• a skilful leader able to engage all stakeholders to continue the strategic improvements already underway?

JSTC provides a broad, knowledge rich curriculum at both KS3 and 4. With improving outcomes at KS4 the future strategic development of the curriculum will enable the school to meet the demands of the students as they seek increasingly diverse careers paths as well as to prepare them for the challenges in our society. 

We are looking for a charismatic, innovative and versatile senior leader who demonstrates:

• the energy, drive and enthusiasm to build on current strengths and develop new ones;

• the ability to nurture our culture of high aspirations and expectations of staff and students;

• the ability to focus consistently on putting personalised learning at the heart of the community;

• warmth, flexibility, creativity, a sense of humour and a sense of perspective;

• the achievement, development and welfare of students as your main priority;

We can offer:

• Committed and enthusiastic staff

• Well behaved students and an excellent pastoral team

• Supportive and engaged Governing Body

Closing date: 17:00 hours on Monday 15th March 2021

Provisional Interview dates: Thursday 25th / Friday 26th March 2021

JSTC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and young people in their care. We expect all of our staff, governors contractors and volunteers to share this commitment.  All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Disclosure. Therefore, the successful candidate will be required to adhere to this process.

For an application pack, further details or an informal conversation please contact our Business Manager / Clerk to Governors, Jon Treasure at John Spendluffe Technology College, Hanby Lane, Alford, Lincolnshire, LN13 9BL, direct on 01507 462443 or email j.treasure@jstc.org.uk


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About John Spendluffe Foundation Technology College

John Spendluffe is a converter academy that sits at the heart of the community that it serves and, as a standalone academy, we can plan strategically for the needs of our students. We work creatively and innovatively to unlock the potential in every child and provide a friendly, engaging environment for students to learn. This was clearly identified in a recent Ofsted inspection, “The school has a strong family feel where the children’s needs are nurtured and well cared for”.

Our curriculum is both broad and exciting. Alongside the core subjects of English, maths and triple science we offer history, geography and two foreign languages. Our KS3 curriculum aims to enable students to further their love of learning through activities that build confidence, resilience and independence. At KS4 we offer a range of technology subjects including engineering, food and textiles, a vibrant expressive arts curriculum, and high quality vocational courses from IT to Sport. We stand proudly behind the range of assessment structures offered to our students and feel it gives them the widest opportunity to achieve. Students who enjoy their learning will make the best progress and excel in their KS4 qualifications. Ofsted noted that ”…pupils know their targets and say that teachers challenge them to achieve them”.

Our ethos is firmly rooted in the three ‘R’s’, ‘respect, responsibility and resilience’. We want our young people to grow into adults, who can succeed in the world beyond our school gates. Our behaviour code has respect at its core and we encourage our students to become those responsible young adults who will eventually leave JSTC with the qualifications, skills and experiences that prepare them for the world of work and a rewarding career. Together as a learning community we celebrate the successes of students at all levels – whether they leave us to go to sixth form and University, an apprenticeship with a national or local company, or to employment with training.

Working together with parents and carers enables us to ensure that students can achieve the goals that will take them to the next level of their chosen career. With excellent careers advice our students leave us with solid foundations for their future.

We welcome visits from prospective students and parents/carers and welcome the opportunity for you to see what JSTC has to offer. Our transition arrangements help each child to settle quickly into secondary school life at JSTC and this again was something identified during a recent Ofsted inspection, “Parents value the strengthened transition arrangements that leaders have implemented so that Year 7 pupils settle into the school quickly and attend well from the start”.

Headteacher: Ms J Shorrock

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