Head Teacher
- Employer
- Birmingham City Council
- Location
- Priestley Smith School, Beeches Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, B42 2PY
- Salary
- L25-L31
- Closing date
- 7 Dec 2020
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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
Not suitable for newly qualified teachers (NQT)
Salary Range: L25-L31
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Priestley Smith School, Beeches Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, B42 2PY
Telephone Number: 0121 325 3900
Email Address: p.roberts@fet.ac
Job Start Date: 1/9/2021
Our governors are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Head Teacher to our inspirational school that is a regional centre for children with vision impairment. (Please note that we are open to applications from candidates who do not have a background in educating children with visual impairment.)
This is an exciting opportunity to join a warm and outstanding all age learning community in North Birmingham whose mission is to prepare our pupils to achieve their aspirations for the fullest possible adult lives.
We are a maintained school based since 2004 in a new purpose-built facility on a campus that is shared with mainstream schools across all phases with whom we have strong partnerships.
We can offer you our wonderful pupils, a skilled and highly motivated staff team, a knowledgeable and supportive governing body and strong collegiate networks of special and mainstream schools and colleges.
The successful candidate will:
- Have a proven track record of successful leadership
- Articulate and represent our mission and values
- Understand what constitutes outstanding teaching
- Enable staff to develop their pedagogy and leadership at all levels
- Ensure that the curriculum is aligned to the school mission
- Manage and delegate school systems to enhance our school
- Communicate positively and effectively with the school community and external partners
- Lead in changing circumstances and formulate strategies to deal with them
- Secure a strong safeguarding culture across the school
- Commit to their own professional development particularly in leadership and by training as a qualified teacher for students with vision impairment within 3 years of their appointment
Further details including the job description and person specification can be found in the Recruitment Pack below
We warmly welcome potential candidates to visit the school. Please call Jacinta Hill on 0121 325 3900 to make arrangements.
Closing Date: 07/12/2020, 9.00am
BCC Teaching Application form can be download here
Please return completed application forms and supporting letters to Mrs Denise McManus, Chair of Governors, by email to j.hill@priestley.bham.sch.uk
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.
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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