Start date: 1 January 2025

Forward Education Trust
Hallmoor School
50, Scholars Gate
Birmingham
B33 0DL
Telephone number: 0121 809 0885

Contact email: martin.blair@hays.com

Contract type: Permanent  

Hallmoor School is an inclusive, forward-thinking and popular specialist school for pupils aged 5 to 19 years with a range of diagnosis including Learning Difficulties, Autism and Complex Needs. The number on roll has increased to almost 300 children in recent years with further growth expected. We are considering some exciting possibilities for the future, which can only be delivered by an exceptional Headteacher. The school has been through significant change and improvement in recent years under the stewardship of incumbent Headteacher, Paul Donkersloot, culminating in it being graded ‘Good’ by Ofsted in December 2023.

We are looking for a new Headteacher who can share our excitement about the next stage of development, building on its success and continuing its positive journey to excellence. You will play a critical role in driving the school forwards by working with and developing a talented group of senior & middle leaders and a dedicated, caring staff team. The school is supported by a wide multi-disciplinary team, which includes speech & language therapists and occupational therapists to ensure that pupils access therapeutic interventions, a Family Support Worker and a Counsellor who contribute to support for families and carers.

The school is part of Forward Education Trust (FET), an established and developing MAT of 7 special schools in Birmingham, Solihull and Sandwell. The Trust believes that its staff and leaders are its most important asset and that valuing them and utilising their many talents will deliver the best experiences for pupils. You will be empowered to make decisions and to be creative. You will join supportive and well-established collaborative networks, where colleagues support each other and we learn from each other. The Trust will have a real interest in your future and will be keen to explore ways that you can develop personally and professionally.

The successful candidate will be an exemplary leader, teacher and role model with leadership experience of working in special education. Experience of teaching pupils with complex learning difficulties and of having worked with different age groups would be useful and you must be ambitious for all learners, whatever their additional needs. You must have the ability to initiate and lead change in a positive way which makes a real difference to learning and above all, share the school’s commitment to ensuring the students are safe and happy and achieve their full potential. Working in a supportive Trust environment must be central to your thinking, receiving and giving capacity to the wider network of schools.

Contact Martin Blair at Hays Leadership for a confidential discussion, to arrange a visit to the school, to discuss making an application or to arrange an informal conversation with the Trust’s CEO, Simon Dilkes. Martin will provide candidates with a link to the Forward Education Trust Applicant’s website to complete a formal application.

Interviews: Thursday 27 and Friday 28 September 2024

Martin Blair

T: 07736791138

E: martin.blair@hays.com

FET and Hallmoor School value equality and diversity and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

How to Apply

Please apply online

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. 

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.

Rehabilitation of offenders: 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.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.