Assistant Headteacher - Head of Sixth Form

Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B73 5PT

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  23 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  7 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time or 0.8 fte
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leadership Scale, points 12 to 16

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications and CPD

• Good honours degree.
• Qualified Teacher Status.
• Substantial successful teaching experience in 11-18 education.
• Significant senior or middle leadership experience, such as Head of Department or Head of Year, with a track record of successfully implementing change with a positive impact on teaching and learning, staff and/or student performance.
• Proven skills and experience in strategic leadership.
• Continuous professional development relevant to furthering the quality of Teaching and Learning.
• Willingness to undertake DSL training essential, if not already completed.

Skills and knowledge

• Excellent teaching skills.
• Ability to lead by example with the highest professional standards.
• Demonstrates integrity and consistency of judgement.
• Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships when engaging with students, parents/carers, staff, governors and the wider community.
• Strong planning and organisational skills and ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.
• A strong work ethic and high degree of administrative efficiency.
• Proven, sound decision-making and problem-solving skills, with a successful record of raising individual pupil achievement and self-esteem.
• Knowledge of current educational issues, including developments in public examinations, teaching and learning and curriculum design.
• Ability to articulate a vision and demonstrate attention to detail.
• Innovative with the intellect to initiate and manage change.
• Strong IT skills.

Personal attributes, qualities, skills and knowledge

• Positive and approachable with a commitment to equal opportunities and high achievement.
• Shares the school’s values.
• Demonstrates integrity and consistency of judgement.
• Ability to communicate effectively and inspirationally with students, parents/carers, staff, governors and the wider community.
• Ability to lead by example with the highest professional standards.
• Commitment to the continuous development of individuals and the school.
• Ability to prioritise, plan and organise.
• A commitment to being visible around the school.
• Proven sound decision-making and problem-solving skills combined with the ability to lead and delegate.
• Believes in teamwork.
• Can articulate a vision and demonstrate attention to detail.
• Demonstrates energy and commitment in school leadership.
• Is innovative and has the intellect to initiate and manage change.

Safeguarding

• Commitment to providing a safe and secure environment for all students.
• Practical understanding of the processes and procedures relating to child protection, Prevent, safeguarding and safer recruitment.
• Understands the impact of current, contextual safeguarding issues and strategies to help students to stay safe.
• Understands the support required to ensure that the academic, personal and social needs of CLA and formerly CLA are fully met.
• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety issues.

Accountability and governance

• Work with the Governing Board, meeting with link governors and providing information to enable it to meet its responsibilities when required.
• Work with members of the Senior Leadership Team who attend sub-committee meetings of the Governing Board.

Teaching and Learning

• Evidence of being a role-model with regard to teaching and learning whilst in a middle or senior leadership role.
• Ability to monitor and evaluate performance in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
• Experience of managing and developing teaching and learning within Years 7-13.
• Evidence of raising educational standards and outcomes.
• Evidence of providing vision, sense of purpose and the highest aspirations with a determined focus on student achievement and wellbeing.
• An understanding of maximising learning for all groups of students eg Pupil Premium, 16-19 Bursary, SEND and English as an additional language.

Working with and developing staff

• A track record of leading, managing, and inspiring staff.
• A role model with a professional approach that demands excellence and commands the confidence, trust and respect of the school and wider community.
• Experience of staff development to raise standards and promote equality, diversity and to maximise opportunities for students.
• Ability to inspire and maintain high morale and address issues in the context of persistently pursuing accountability.

Leadership and Management of the School

• Experience of self-evaluation and school development planning for a department or Year group /Key Stage.
• A strong track record of implementing and managing aspects of school improvement.

What the school offers its staff

• We have fantastic results and continue to reflect on ways we can improve and support students to make further progress
• We offer a wide variety of CPD that colleagues can opt into,
• Teaching and learning sessions form most staff meetings, led by a variety of colleagues.
• We are informed by educational research, focussed on developing our questioning, retrieval practice and continuing to refine our approach to assessment.
• Growth mindset strategies and character development are central to our day-to-day activities whilst maintaining staff and student well-being.
• We offer the opportunity to join theTeachers' Pension Scheme, the BHSF Healthcare Plan and/or sign up to our Cycle to Work Scheme.

Commitment to safeguarding

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@suttcold.bham.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1204 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@suttcold.bham.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0121 354 1479
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sutton-coldfield-grammar-school-for-girls (opens in new tab)

At Sutton Girls, our focus is on providing high quality teaching and learning, personal development and wellbeing within a supportive, aspirational environment. Students are highly motivated, have a thirst for knowledge and a desire to learn. Whilst we have a long history of excellent GCSE and A-level results, we provide students with so much more than mastery of examination syllabuses. Students are encouraged to embrace challenges, apply their knowledge, and build their resilience and independence.

Arranging a visit to Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@suttcold.bham.sch.uk.

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