Strategic Director of Behaviour & Attitudes

Place of Employment: ACET (working across our three senior academies - Aston, Swinton & Shirebrook)

Hours of Work: Full Time

Salary: Leadership Scale, L16 - L20 (£64,225 - £70,733)

Appointment: Permanent

Date of Commencement: Easter 2023

Closing Date: 9.00am on 10th February 2023

We are seeking an exceptional and highly talented individual, who is an outstanding teacher, who is also able to demonstrate exceptional leadership skills and be able to role model best practice. The successful candidate will join our Academy Improvement Team, and play a critical role in improve students’ behaviour and attitudes across the Trust, particularly in our senior academies. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to further develop our behaviour strategies, and to lead on the implementation of an ACET Alternative Provision offer across the three seniors.

The successful candidate will already have experience at leadership level, will be an outstanding teaching practitioner, and will be able to demonstrate their passion and talent for maximising learning through effective behaviour management strategies.

As part of a Multi-Academy Trust, the successful candidate will work collaboratively with academy Principals, the Academy Improvement Team and other senior Trust leaders, and will have the opportunity to contribute to the continued development of the Trust. Regular travel across ACET academies will be necessary, for which appropriate mileage will be reimbursed in line with HMRC guidelines.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a passion and extensive knowledge of teaching;
• Be an outstanding teacher, with a continued passion for working with young people;
• Work closely with teachers and leaders, coaching and mentoring to develop classroom practice and pedagogy;
• Have excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills;
• Be a highly effective and strongly resilient leader, with the ability to coach and develop people;
• Be experienced, knowledgeable and effective in all safeguarding practices;
• Be committed to ensuring ACET academies provides every student/pupil with high quality education, through ensuring the highest possible standards behaviour;
• Develop and maintain collaborative links within ACET and the wider education community;
• Research the latest innovation and ensure procedures in the trust reflects best practice.

Application Details

Candidates considering this post are welcome to have an informal discussion about the role, and visits to the academy are warmly encouraged. This can be arranged by contacting Melanie Denton on 0114 287 2171 or by email to vacancies@astoncetrust.org

For further information and to apply, please visit http://www.astoncetrust.org/index.php/vacancies. Applications should made on an ACET application form (CVs will not be accepted), and should be returned by email to vacancies@astoncetrust.org by the specified closing date.

Safeguarding

ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.

We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.

Please note if you have not received a reply within three weeks, your application has been unsuccessful.