Assistant Headteacher
Cherry Oak School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B29 6PB8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
2 May 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
7 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L9-L13
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
- Promote outstanding classroom practice for students with severe cognition and learning difficulties and speech, language and communication difficulties
- Communicate the shared vision, ethos and strategic plan for Cherry Oak School that inspires and motivates all stakeholders.
- Play a leading role in school improvement and self-evaluation.
- Promote a culture of inclusion within the school where all views are valued and taken into account.
- Be an excellent role model, exemplifying a high standard of teaching and learning and promoting high expectations for all students and staff.
- Support the process for monitoring and evaluation of teaching and learning throughout the school.
- Build a collaborative learning culture within the Federation and beyond to establish effective learning communities and partnerships.
- Undertake up to a 0.4 (2 day) teaching commitment, as relevant to the role and directed by the Head of School.
What the school offers its staff
Cherry Oak School and the Federation offers:
- An opportunity to work with our fantastic pupils and staff team!
- A happy and caring community that always puts our pupils first
- A highly motivated staff team who are committed to getting the very best outcomes for our pupils
- Excellent opportunities to further develop your leadership skills and career pathway
- A commitment to continuing professional development
- A strong and supportive Governing Body
- A culture of promoting positive mental health and wellbeing through a well-planned strategy
Further details about the role
The Federation comprises two special schools and one 19-25 specialist College in South Birmingham. The schools are LA maintained, whilst the College is an Independent Specialist Provider, with its own Board of Trustees. We are rightly proud of our Federation and this is an exciting opportunity to support the leadership of a vibrant, highly committed and caring school community, where children are at the very heart of all that we do.
Cherry Oak School
Cherry Oak is recognised by Ofsted as a “good” primary special school for children aged 3-11 years and is based in Selly Oak. Our pupils have Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties and/or Cognition and Learning Difficulties. Approximately half of our pupils are diagnosed as being on the Autism Spectrum. All have Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs), and are referred to the school via Birmingham City Council’s Special Education Needs Assessment and Review service, known as SENAR. We cater for 111 pupils.
Victoria School
Victoria School is an all age 2-19 special school based in Northfield; supporting pupils with cognition and learning needs, profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), physical disabilities and complex medical health and learning needs. It caters for 228 pupils and was recognised by Ofsted as having “good” and “outstanding” provision in its most recent inspection.
Victoria College
Victoria College is based on the same site as Victoria School in Northfield. It supports young people with PMLD and complex medical and health needs. The college opened in 2013 and has 27 learners on roll. It was deemed to be rated as “good” overall in its latest Ofsted inspection.
The Federation’s vision is to ‘inspire and empower students through collaborative working and to promote their holistic development.” Our values statement is “We R.I.S.E Together – Respect, Inspire, Support, Empower”.
The Board of Governors is seeking to appoint an inspirational Assistant Headteacher to join our committed staff team at Cherry Oak School, who will work in collaboration with the Executive Headteacher, Head of School and wider Senior Leadership Team.
We are rightly proud of Cherry Oak School. We’re looking for the right person to join a vibrant, highly committed and caring community where children are at the very heart of all that we do. Our recent Ofsted inspection (March 2024) found that:
- “Pupils enjoy their learning and are happy at school..”
- “From the very start in the early years, the school takes time to support children, families and carers with this important transition”
- “The school has created a carefully planned curriculum across all subject areas. The knowledge and skills that leaders want pupils to learn are planned to build in a logical order over time.”
Our students have told us the following:
- “I think our school is amazing, because I can learn things and become successful in my future”
- “I think it's good that we have a school for children with Autism, so we have somewhere to go and do things like Sensory Integration and play that can help us”
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; medical fitness; teacher prohibition check, identity checks and right to work.
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
ALL Shortlisted candidates will subject to an Online Search in line with KCSIE 2023.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@cherryoak.bham.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Cherry Oak School
- School type
- Special school, ages 3 to 11
- School size
- 114 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cherry Oak School website
- Email address
- recruitment@cherryoak.bham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 07872831376
Cherry Oak School is a primary school for children with special education needs (SEN). All pupils have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). The school has specialist provision for children with severe cognition and learning difficulties and those with Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties. Approximately half of the pupils are diagnosed as being on the Autism Spectrum. With capacity for 110 pupils, Cherry Oak School caters for pupils from Birmingham and beyond.
Arranging a visit to Cherry Oak School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@cherryoak.bham.sch.uk.
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