Head Teacher
- Employer
- Birmingham City Council
- Location
- Marlborough Infant & Marlborough Junior School, Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham,
- Salary
- £65,384 - £74,985
- Closing date
- 3 May 2019
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- Sector
- Education
- Job Type
- Schools / Academies - Leadership Roles, Headteacher
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- Standard
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Head Teacher
Salary Range: L21 – L27 £65,384 - £74,985
Hours: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Marlborough Infant & Marlborough Junior School, Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham, B10 9NY, Telephone Number: 0121 464 7933
Job Start Date: September 2019 (or as soon thereafter)
We are looking to appoint an inspirational and outstanding leader to work as part of our team here at Marlborough Infant and Marlborough Junior School. We are two separate schools, that joined Leigh Trust in January 2019, but are working as one school under one leadership team and one highly skilled and supportive Local Governing Body Board.
This is an excellent opportunity for a strategic, empathetic and dynamic leader to work with our thoroughly committed and talented staff to continue to nurture our children’s potential and develop our vision for a highly relevant, vibrant and engaging education for all our children.
We can offer the successful candidate happy and very well-behaved children who are a pleasure to teach every day and supportive, hard-working, friendly staff who are dedicated to the school's continuous improvement.
About the role:
•Being accountable for ensuring the educational success of the school on its journey towards good and beyond.
•Ensuring that a high quality educational experience is available for all children that attend the school.
•Monitoring, evaluating and reviewing classroom practice, celebrating and promoting excellence, challenging under-performance and ensuring that all pupils' achieve the best possible education.
•Ensuring that systems are in place to encourage all teaching staff to be similarly active in their personal and continuous professional development.
•Keeping abreast of educational developments and best management practice in order to introduce appropriate innovation, whilst building on the Trust's ethos and vision.
About the school:
Marlborough Infant and Marlborough Junior School are currently two separate schools that are working together seamlessly and are hoping to become one school by September 2019. These vibrant inner city, multi-cultural schools are located in the heart of our community and are based on the same site, sharing the main building. These oversubscribed schools currently have 630 combined pupils on roll with a Nursery provision attached. The schools have already come a long way toward working together as one team.
About you:
You will be able to provide strong, visionary leadership to the school and to provide examples from your current role of making a difference and raising standards. You will see yourself as a teacher at heart able to inspire others to learn and promoting a broad and balanced curriculum that meets all children's needs. You will also need to have excellent communication skills, be approachable and a good listener and able to deal with the everyday challenges that being head teacher of an inner city school brings.
As an innovative, motivational leader, you will have a commitment to your own professional development as well as those who work in your team and will contribute to the wider life both at the school and within the Trust. You will have an In-depth knowledge and understanding of current educational priorities and be able to demonstrate how these will influence your vision for the school moving forwards.
It is essential that you have experience of promoting equality and diversity and are fully up to date with the policies and procedures relating to safeguarding and promoting children's welfare. You must be committed to inclusion with an up to date knowledge of appropriate strategies and the type of support needed for children with special educational needs, EAL and newly arrived to the country.
About us:
Leigh Trust is a small trust with a family of 5 schools which are all located in inner city Birmingham. We are committed to becoming one of the top-performing multi-academy trusts in the country (we were amongst the Top 10 performing MATS, this year, for the progress in Maths from KS1 to KS2).
We have a forward thinking CEO and Trust Board who are all well informed and dedicated to the Trust’s vision of educational excellence and will provide a full commitment to your continuing professional development. We offer dedicated headship time and other wellbeing incentives for all our heads.
There is a strong, caring and supportive central team, offering professional services to our schools, including but not limited to financial, HR and school improvement support services.
We ensure our Head Teachers are provided with autonomy yet benefit from the pool of expertise within our Trust, offering fantastic networking opportunities with the other leadership teams as well as the executive team across the Trust.
Our Trust motto is TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More – and this has led to our continued success as a MAT. Join us now:
We believe this is a very exciting opportunity for a talented, driven, committed individual to progress their career within our Trust.
If you think you’ve got the qualities, vision and enthusiasm to lead this ambitious school, this could be the opportunity for you.
If you’re at the time in your career when you feel ready for such a challenge, we need to hear from you. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to visit the school.
About the process:
Informal visits to the schools will be available on the following dates:
Tuesday 9th April 2019 at 9.00am
Wednesday 10th April 2019 at 1.30pm
Tuesday 30th April 2019 at 9.00am
Closing Date: 03/05/2019, 12.00 noon
Short listing: Will be in the following stages:
Stage 1: Application shortlisting: Tuesday 7th May 2019
Please note that references will be requested for successful candidates at this stage.
Stage 2: Informal visit to your current school (date to arranged with candidate/s post shortlisting) and an Initial Assessment at a Leigh Trust School (Wyndcliffe Primary) on Monday 20th May 2019
Stage 3: Interview & Presentation: Thursday 23rd May 2019
Candidates will be informed at each step if they have been successful in reaching the next stage of the process. Application forms and details are available from and returnable to Ms Yvonne Wakefield, PA to the CEO and Company Secretary, Leigh Trust, c/o St Pauls Centre, 405b Belchers Lane, Birmingham, B9 5SY. Email: y.wakefield@leightrust.co.uk
Application packs can be obtained as follows: Downloaded from the BCC website
Downloaded from the Leigh Trust website: www.leightrust.co.uk
Downloaded from the school Websites: www.mjs.bham.sch.uk or www.malbrghi.bham.sch.uk
By emailing Ms Wakefield at: y.wakefield@leightrust.co.uk
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.
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
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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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- http://birmingham.gov.uk/
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- 0121 675 7070
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