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Principal Designate

Employer
Birmingham City Council
Location
High Point Academy, Sandwell WS10 OJS - Opening September 2021
Salary
L15 - L21
Closing date
8 Oct 2020

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Principal Designate

L15 - L21

Hours: Full Time

Contract: Permanent

High Point Academy, Sandwell WS10 OJS - Opening September 2021

Telephone Number: 0121 566 6690 - Email Address: recruitment@fet.ac

Start Date: 01/01/21

High Point Academy is a DFE approved special free academy opening in Sandwell (WS10 OJS) in September 2021. This new provision will educate children and young people aged 11-16 who all have an Education Health and Care Plan for their special educational needs. The students who will be admitted to the Academy will include those with Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and associated Moderate Learning Difficulties. The school is an integral part of Forward Education Trust. It will respond to the individual needs of children and young people, helping them to build strategies to minimise the barriers to their learning; enabling them to prepare for adult life both educationally and emotionally. The Trust is seeking to recruit a dynamic, innovative, and proactive leader; a change agent who is able to create an outstanding school, that meets the needs of all our young people in an ever-changing educational landscape. You will be open to working collaboratively with the Trust and its schools, to maximise the educational and social opportunities available for children and young people at High Point who often have complex additional needs. Opening a school, recruiting a workforce, and developing a curriculum needs a leader with vision, energy and knowledge. If you believe you are up to this very special challenge, we would love to receive your application.

Closing Date: 08/10/2020, 9:00 am

Final Panel interviews will take place w/c Monday 12th October 2020

For an informal and confidential conversation, please contact Jane Edgerton, CEO at the Trust. You may email enquiry@highpoint.fet.ac or ceo@fet.ac. For further details and an application pack please download from the Forward Education Trust website https://www.fet.ac/vacancies/schools/  or alternatively email recruitment@.fet.ac

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.
 

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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