Assistant Head Teacher

Firs Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B36 8LL

7 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  7 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  26 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,938.00 - £60,644.00 Annually (Actual) L5-9

Assistant Head Teacher job summary

Are you a passionate and experienced educator ready to step into a key leadership role? Do you have the drive to lead a phase and champion a core subject, making a meaningful impact on the lives of pupils and staff? If so, Firs Primary Academy invites you to join our ambitious and supportive team.

At Firs Primary, we are committed to developing a relational school community that values academic success and nurtures every individual to achieve their potential. As our new Assistant Headteacher, you will play a vital role in driving this vision forward.

The Role

As Assistant Headteacher, you will:

Oversee inclusion at the school

Drive excellence in a core subject: Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of a core subject curriculum, ensuring all pupils achieve exceptional progress.

Model outstanding practice: Demonstrate exemplary teaching, setting high expectations for pupils and staff.

Support whole-school improvement: Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team to deliver on our strategic priorities, including improving attainment and embedding a relational approach.

Develop staff: Mentor and support colleagues through coaching, guidance, and tailored professional development opportunities.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a motivated and inspiring leader who:

Has SENDCo qualification or willing to work towards

Has a proven track record of excellent teaching and raising standards.

Has experience in leading with demonstrable impact.

Is committed to building positive relationships and fostering a nurturing learning environment.

Understands the importance of data-driven decision-making to support school improvement.

Is an effective communicator with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower others.

Shares our commitment to creating a school community where everyone can thrive.

What We Offer

In return for your dedication and commitment, we offer:

A collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment, both within your schools and Trust-wide.

An opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as Level 7 Senior Leaders Masters, with regular twilights.

Access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance (PPG) process.

A wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views.

Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called “My Possible Self”.

Access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly.

Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (LGPS).

Access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users.

Opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support.

Onsite parking at all schools.

To arrange an informal visit or to speak with the headteacher about this role please email: cmills@firs.academy. We look forward to hearing from you.

Firs Primary Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

Join us on our journey to excellence. We can’t wait to welcome you to the Firs Primary Academy team!

We value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We have an outstanding opportunity to work at Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust as an Assistant Head.

We promise to treat all candidates fairly, consistently and with respect throughout the application, assessment, and selection process.

We are also “happy to talk flexible working” subject to the operational requirements of the role.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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

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About Firs Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 353 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Firs Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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