Assistant Head of Academy - SENDCO

Smith's Wood Academy

Windward Way

Smith’s Wood

Birmingham

B36 0UE

Telephone Number: 0121 788 4100

Email Address: recruitment@fmat.co.uk

Job Start Date: January 2022

We are seeking to appoint a highly strategic and dedicated professional, committed to continuous school improvement, someone who can influence change to make a real difference to our students and be a champion for those with SEND.

The successful candidate will be an experienced school leader who is looking to enhance their experiences:

• is committed to setting high expectations and standards for all

• is unrelentingly ambitious for the academy, its staff and students

• has the ability to lead, manage and inspire both students and staff

• can manage long-term objectives whilst dealing effectively with fast moving day to day priorities

• has vision, enthusiasm and works effectively within a team as a leader.

The successful candidate with be the SENDCO for the academy and lead the SEND team.

Smith’s Wood became an academy in April 2017 when it joined Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, a family of four secondary schools in Birmingham and Solihull. This further enables the academy to share and develop practice as part of a wider group of academies and partners.

Smith’s Wood is a special place to learn and work. Students that choose to study with us and colleagues that choose to work with us tell us what an incredible school this is. At Smith’s Wood we are dedicated, ambitious people who strive for excellence in all that we do. We always work with integrity and are proud of our traditional approach and values.

This is an exciting time for Smith’s Wood Academy as we strive to secure the very best outcomes for our students.

Students at Smith’s Wood are bright and kind with ambitions for the future. Smith’s Wood Academy must provide its students with the knowledge, skills and qualities to realise their dreams, as SENDCO you will play a key role in this. We are seeking outstanding teachers and leaders with high expectations to join our team dedicated to pursuing excellence for every child. We are an ambitious school and value enthusiastic and hardworking staff.

Closing Date: 1 October 2021, 9am

To apply, please complete the online application form

To arrange a visit/conversation, please contact Mr Richard Cornell, Head of Academy on 0121 788 4100 or via email: r.cornell@smithswood.fmat.co.uk

Interview Date: Friday 8 October 2021.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.