Assistant Head Teacher
- Employer
- Birmingham City Council
- Location
- Firs Primary School Dreghorn Road Birmingham B36 8LL
- Salary
- L5-L9 (£56,316 to £60,644)
- Closing date
- 7 Feb 2025
- Reference
- JOB003027
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- Sector
- Education
- Job Type
- Schools / Academies - Leadership Roles, Deputy / Assistant headteacher
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- See advert details
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Are you a passionate and experienced educator ready to step into a key leadership role? Do you have the drive to lead a phase and champion a core subject, making a meaningful impact on the lives of pupils and staff? If so, Firs Primary Academy invites you to join our ambitious and supportive team. At Firs Primary, we are committed to developing a relational school community that values academic success and nurtures every individual to achieve their potential.
As our new Assistant Headteacher, you will play a vital role in driving this vision forward.
As Assistant Headteacher, you will:
- lead a phase: provide strategic direction and support to ensure high standards of teaching, learning, and outcomes across your phase
- drive excellence in a core subject: lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of a core subject curriculum, ensuring all pupils achieve exceptional progress
- model outstanding practice: demonstrate exemplary teaching, setting high expectations for pupils and staff
- support whole-school improvement: collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team to deliver on our strategic priorities, including improving attainment and embedding a relational approach
- develop staff: mentor and support colleagues through coaching, guidance, and tailored professional development opportunities
What we’re looking for -
We are seeking a motivated and inspiring leader who:
- has a proven track record of excellent teaching and raising standard
- has experience in leading a phase or subject with demonstrable impact
- is committed to building positive relationships and fostering a nurturing learning environment
- understands the importance of data-driven decision-making to support school improvement
- is an effective communicator with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower others
- shares our commitment to creating a school community where everyone can thrive
What we offer In return for your dedication and commitment, we offer
- a salary within the Leadership Scale L5–L9 (dependent on experience)
- a forward-thinking and collaborative Senior Leadership Team
- comprehensive CPD and leadership development opportunities tailored to your career progression
- the opportunity to shape the future of our school and contribute to long-lasting improvements
- a warm, welcoming, and ambitious school community
- access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance (PPG) process
- a wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views
- access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling
- access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly
- access to a generous pension scheme known as the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users
- opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support
- onsite parking at all schools
Join us on our journey to excellence. We can’t wait to welcome you to the Firs Primary Academy team!
We value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We have an outstanding opportunity to work at Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust as an Assistant Head.
We are also “happy to talk flexible working” subject to the operational requirements of the role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible
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 necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.
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.
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
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.
For the awards and support for our employees, please follow https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/homepage/169/job_vacancies
- Website
- http://birmingham.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 0121 675 7070
- Location
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Birmingham City Council
Birmingham
West Midlands
B2 2XU
United Kingdom
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