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Assistant Headteacher (Quality of Education)

Employer
Birmingham City Council
Location
Christ Church, Church of England, Secondary Academy, 6 Daleview Road
Salary
L11 - L16 (Dependant on Experience)
Closing date
9 Nov 2020

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Assistant Headteacher (Quality of Education)

L11 - L16 (Dependant on Experience)

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Christ Church, Church of England, Secondary Academy, 6 Daleview Road

Yardley Wood, Birmingham, B14 4HN

Telephone Number: 0121 426 0403

Email Address: jobs@bdmatschools.com

Job Start Date: September 2021

We are looking for an experienced or aspiring Assistant Headteacher to join our growing senior leadership team with a focus on teaching, learning and the curriculum. This enthusiastic and inspiring senior leader would support the Deputy Headteacher and Headteacher in leading Christ Church, Church of England, Secondary Academy (CCSA) from the point of opening in September 2021. We are seeking to appoint a person who can support the development of a strong Christian vision and who understands the Christian distinctiveness of a Church of England school.

As a school in development, we are in an ideal position to ensure that our founding leadership team is best placed to effectively serve our staff, our students, their families, and the local community. In recruiting to this post we are looking for candidates who are motivated to understand the talent in each and every student, and has the potential to grow and develop in their leadership experience, knowledge and skillset, as part of a growing team.

The 11 – 19 secondary school and sixth form is being established by the Birmingham Diocesan Multi-Academy Trust (BDMAT) to help meet the need for additional high-quality secondary places in the Yardley Wood area of Birmingham.

CCSA is a Free School, funded by the Department for Education. Planning permission has been granted and construction is well under way; we plan to have the building ready for occupation by the end of the summer term 2021.

The school will initially open in 2021 with just Year 7 pupils and then grow by one-year group each year, with the launch of a Sixth Form in 2023. This will be a sixth form entry school with 180 pupils per year group.

We believe that success is found in who you are as well as what you do, and at Christ Church we aim to provide an outstanding education, supported by excellent pastoral care and high standards of behavior, set within a distinctive Christian ethos. We want to equip our students with the qualifications, experiences, and personal attributes to enable

them to succeed in the next stage of their education or employment.

Senior leaders of CCSA will support the Headteacher in areas such as:

• Embedding the ethos of the school as a Church of England school with an inclusive and supportive Christian ethos which welcomes, values, and nurtures all students regardless of background and of faith / no faith.

• Providing a balanced and broadly-based education designed to enable all students to discover their strengths and to make the most of their talents.

• Ensuring that academic standards are high throughout the school, through developing the highest quality teaching and learning.

• Engendering respect for individuality, difference, the importance of teamwork and the contribution that each student makes to the life of the school and local community.

• Securing and sustaining excellence in safeguarding students’ health and well-being.

• Achieving Ofsted and SIAMS inspection judgements of ‘outstanding’ / ‘excellent’; and

• Establishing the school as a community hub, including through appropriate use of school facilities by community groups, and promoting community cohesion.

Closing Date: 09/11/2020, 12 noon

Interviews week commencing 23rd November 2020. Venue to be confirmed.

To arrange an informal enquiry, please contact Mark Bowman Dalton through Khadija Bibi who can be contacted at k.bib@bdmatschools.com  or telephone 0121 426 0403. Further details of the school, trust and post can be found at www.bdmatschools.com  and www.christchurchsecondary.org.uk

Application forms can be downloaded from the BDMAT website; alternatively, prospective applicants can request a form from Khadija Bibi. Application forms should be returned electronically to jobs@bdmatschools.com All completed applications must be received by BDMAT by 12 noon on 9th November 2020.

Birmingham Diocesan Multi-Academy Trust (BDMAT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability,

sexual orientation or religion. BDMAT is a Disability Confident employer.

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.

 

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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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