Assistant Head of Primary
The Royal School, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0EG9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
6 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L3-L8
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Royal School is seeking a highly motivated and innovative Assistant Head of Primary School to join the trust from September 2024.
Teaching at The Royal School provides an exciting opportunity to join a culture of high expectations and aspirations, expressed through our curriculum practise and a unique ethos. This is probably why we are highly oversubscribed at every entry point. The successful candidate will join a team of outstanding leaders and practitioners and be at the forefront of developing educational approaches across the city.
The Royal School Wolverhampton Trust is ambitious for the families and young people within the city, and you will play a role in further developing the Trust. You will be joining a supportive and caring team which aspires to develop the leaders of tomorrow and provide the best opportunities for professional growth. You will be leading a culture that is committed to the development of ‘character’… enabling all children to make the best progress in their academic, sporting, musical and aesthetic experience.
You will be passionate about continuing to further grow our expectations of high performance and outstanding pastoral care. If you would like to contribute to our school, then we would love to hear from you.
What the school offers its staff
The Royal School offers significant benefits for its staff:
- Two additional weeks holiday compared to many schools (one week prior to Christmas, one week early in the summer)
- Free breakfast, lunch and evening meals
- Free tea and coffee provided
- Staff laptop
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to NPQ programmes
- Opportunities for you and your family to attend boarding activities e.g. parties, Alton Towers, visits to cities and museums.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below
About The Royal School, Wolverhampton
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Through schooljobs
- School size
- 1468 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lcallaway@theroyal.school
Thank you for your interest in the post here at The Royal School,
Wolverhampton (RSW). To help you decide on whether this is the school
for you it is important to understand where we have come from and where
we are going.
The school is built upon a combination of things; it’s unique heritage,
record of academic excellence, outstanding educational environment, and the full support and endorsement of our Patron, the Earl of Wessex.
From this, the Governors and leadership team are committed to supporting wider access for pupils, of all abilities and backgrounds, to add to The Royal’s rich and diverse educational offer.
The Royal School, Wolverhampton offers a unique proposition to families
in Wolverhampton and its surrounding area of an ‘all-through’, 4-19, coeducational, nondenominational day and state boarding school, with the capacity over time to provide for 1500 pupils, through a carefully managed programme of growth.
Whilst remaining fully non-selective and dedicated to supporting pupils in
need, this change process has enabled RSW to combine its traditional
values and academic offer with a global perspective. All this is to benefit
our pupils, and to create a dynamic outward looking, culturally diverse, yet inclusive school community. Within this, pupils acquire the rich subject knowledge, life skills, understanding and aspiration to succeed locally, nationally, and internationally.
We welcome your application to be part of our community and would love
you to visit and see the school in action or call us to talk things through.
Arranging a visit to The Royal School, Wolverhampton
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lcallaway@theroyal.school.
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