We are seeking an Associate Assistant Headteacher for English to join our thriving secondary school. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced English specialist to combine strategic leadership with hands-on teaching. If you’re passionate about delivering excellence in education and have the ambition to drive change, we’d love to hear from you! Ideally an Easter start however, this is negotiable.
The sole ethos for the school community is ‘“if you do the small
things right, big things can happen.” Whilst we are committed to ensuring that
every student makes excellent progress, this concept stretches well beyond
academic performance. We firmly believe that every aspect of school should
equip learners to be successful in all areas of their lives, both now and for
their future and we are passionate about the personal development of the
student body. Indeed, every single decision or action taken improves the life
chances of all our learners. This is underpinned by ensuring the school is a
safe, nurturing and happy environment: put simply, The Kidsgrove Secondary
School is a great place to learn and a great place to work with a family feel
which provides a real strength of collective working and strong relationships.
The school is underpinned by a set of Core Values that underpins
the whole school achievement culture, that has rewards and celebration at its
heart.
The school has an innovative digital strategy that sees all
students and staff receive an iPad to support their learning. The Digital
Strategy is fundamental to the school’s vision of achieving digital skills for
life. The digital technology delivers to every classroom opportunity for
cutting edge assessment for learning techniques and interactive lesson
resources. This approach has reinvigorated learning and helps students to
develop independence and enquiry skills. This combined with a technology hub that
has the possibilities to bring the curriculum to life.
This ethos applies equally to the staff. We believe in empowering
our staff to be aspirational and effective leaders of learning and provide a
strong programme of CPD and induction to support those joining our vibrant
community. This CPD includes being part of a large MAT, with its own Institute
of Education (IoE) focused on the development of staff. The IoE provides access
to wide range of network hubs, subject experts and access to best practice, as
well as bespoke CPD opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to join a
highly professional and committed team of staff whilst also playing their part
in the success and future development of our School.
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools 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. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.
We are currently at an exciting point in their evolution, with collaboration at the heart of our collective endeavour. We don’t operate in silos: we value the power of the pack and strive to collaborate as a collective, ensuring no school or colleague is left behind. We are currently co-constructing an aligned curriculum across all EBacc curriculum subjects,
to create a world class curriculum, rich in powerful knowledge and skills. This is driving up standards through the sharing of the very best practice, whilst allowing each school sufficient flexibility for autonomy to do what is right for their local context. A by-product of this approach has been the reduction in planning workload for colleagues, meaning they can spend more time on the things that matter and fostering strong relationships with pupils and delivery of the curriculum.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- 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.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
Kidsgrove Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment,.
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.