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Primary Deputy Headteacher

Employer
Birmingham City Council
Location
Ark Kings Primary Academy
Salary
Ark leadership outside London: L10 to L14 £53,500 to £58,993
Closing date
26 May 2022

Job Details

Primary Deputy Headteacher

Ark leadership outside London: L10 to L14 £53,500 to £58,993

Hours: Full Time 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday

Contract Type: Fixed term 2 years September 2022 to August 2024

Ark Kings Primary Academy

Tees Grove

Birmingham

B38 9DH

Telephone Number: 0121 458 5380

Email Address: info@arkkingsacademy.org

Job Start Date: September 2022 (or earlier where possible)

Our mission as a school is to create a school in which every child thrives, academically and socially. Our school values are: 'Aspire. Expect. Achieve. Together’ – and they permeate everything we do in school with our pupils, our parents, our staff and the wider community. We recognise our role in addressing inequality by ensuring that all pupils, regardless of circumstance have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Ark Kings Academy is seeking to appoint a Deputy Headteacher on a fixed term contract to its senior leadership team.

The intention is to increase our capacity to provide the rigorous and thoughtful leadership required to build a truly exceptional school.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a clear belief that an excellent education can transform the life chances of our young people. They will have a proven ability to secure outcomes for pupils of varying prior attainments and for pupils of diverse backgrounds. They will also demonstrate a clear commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and to the planning,

preparation and persistence required to ensure that every pupil is able to meet our high expectations and to thrive at Ark Kings Academy and beyond.

This is an important opportunity for the right person – they will have the chance to oversee and run the primary at Ark Kings operationally on a day-to-day basis, when deputising for the primary head. They will also play a crucial role in continuing to build on the strengths of Ark Kings Primary and ensuring the secondary continues to benefit from and learn from these strengths.

This role will help support you in development towards becoming a Head of school in the future.

In addition, they will line manage key staff, work with stakeholders, lead aspects of curriculum intent and impact, continue the excellent reading work, ensure an excellent culture of behaviour, safeguarding and inclusion is maintained as well as effective communication within the school.

In this role we are looking for an established and experienced leader who can lead across the areas mentioned above, while also being a kind, thorough and highly organised leader with exceptional communication skills. Our senior leaders think and act in accordance with a commitment to collaboration and collective responsibility.

As Primary Deputy Headteacher you will be part of the leadership team and school community which genuinely has a chance to be part of transforming lives.

It is our shared endeavour to ensure that the community we work in has a school that every year sends all its pupils to the best jobs and get to the top universities. It is our shared belief that the provision of clear, kind, consistent and cohesive leadership is key to achieving our ambitious aims, and as a result we are seeking to grow our senior leadership team.

This role will provide successful candidates with the opportunity to have a significant impact on the work we do to fulfil our mission.

Role: Primary Deputy Headteacher

Reporting to: Primary Head of School

For an informal, confidential discussion please contact the school on 0121 459 4451 to arrange a discussion with a member of the senior leadership team.

Closing Date: 6 June 2022, 9:30am

To view the full job description and person specification and to apply, please visit our website or download here

Interviews: TBC

Applications are to be made by completing the online application form and should include an explanation of the motivation to apply and examples of where capacity to meet aspects of the job description have been evidenced in career history to date.

Ark Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers, and apprentices to share this commitment. To meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.

At Ark Kings Academy we take safeguarding very seriously. All adults who regularly work on our site are required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to prevent unsuitable people from working with students. Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. To meet this

responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process. This process is outlined here but can be provided in more detail if requested. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

 

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.

Company

Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.

We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion.   We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.

Information for applicants with a disability

We are a proud Disability Confident Employer.  We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).

If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.

The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence. 

There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:

  • A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
  • An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
  • A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
  • A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
  • A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.

We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.

We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision.  We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.

In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.

Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.

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Birmingham
West Midlands
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United Kingdom

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