An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ‘Assistant Head – Curriculum’ with responsibility for the College’s Vocational Pathway.
The successful candidate will lead a teaching and teaching support team which delivers a post-16 curriculum offer to young adults with a range of SEND. You will lead a curriculum offer delivering GCSE and NCFE courses in addition to the College’s Step-Up RARPA programme alongside a broad enrichment and tutorial offer. You will be responsible for ensuring excellent standards of teaching and learning. You will be responsible for ensuring the young people are supported in their learning journeys including oversight of access to the college therapy offer. You will also take a key role in the identification and creation of new curriculum opportunities to prepare your learners for a successful transition into adulthood be that employment, volunteering, mainstream FE, HE or other training programmes. You will be responsible for supporting the high quality and expansion of the College’s Work Placement and Supported Internship opportunities and ensuring an innovative, outward facing approach to continual development of the vocational curriculum offer. You will teach for 1-2 days per week. The ability to teach English and/or Maths would be desirable but is not a requirement of the post.
You will be involved in designing and delivering a curriculum that challenges and develops the right knowledge, skills and behaviours our learners need to enable them to progress with their chosen pathways into adulthood. You will be responsible for ensuring the right personalised curriculum offer for each young person working closely with the young person, their parents/carers, teaching and support staff and external stakeholders to ensure each young person is reaching their individual potential.
You will need to be organised, innovative, a strong performance manager, have a proven record of achieving outcomes utilising excellent communication skills and have the drive to further develop a Pathway offer that is innovative, forward-looking and aspirational in every way. You will bring to the role skills and experience that could have been gained in a General FE, mainstream secondary, specialist school or specialist post-16 setting.
You will need to bring to this role a personal drive and creative ambition for the College and for our learners. We are a ‘Good’ College with Outstanding judgements in Behaviour and Attitudes and Personal Development. We have our sights firmly set on achieving ‘Outstanding’ in all areas. Do you have the skills, knowledge, and personal attributes that we are looking for? Do you have the energy, drive, and ambition to secure an outstanding offer for our vocational learners? Are you ready for a challenge that will bring great personal and professional rewards?
If you are passionate about using your knowledge and skills to develop and lead a team ensuring excellent teaching and learning and have a strong track record of delivering outstanding outcomes for young people with SEND, then this is the ideal job for you!
All candidates are required to provide a supporting statement on the formal application forms which states clearly your reasons for applying, skills and experience for this position.
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools and settings including Primary, Secondary and Special Settings all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online checks and criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.
All shortlisted candidates will undergo an online search as part of Trust safer recruitment checks.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.
Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.
Newfriars College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection Policy https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information
This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online checks and criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.
All shortlisted candidates will undergo an online search as part of Trust safer recruitment.
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date as we review applications on an on-going basis and interviews may be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, therefore, we encourage early applications.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.
Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.