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Assistant Headteacher Lead of Outreach

Continu Plus Academy, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY11 7FB

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• Job start date

  1 January 2025

• Closing date

  21 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  15 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Head of year or phase
  • Head of department or curriculum
  • Assistant headteacher
  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subjects: English, Health and social care, History, Mathematics
• Working pattern: Full time: Monday to Friday - Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - Initially until August 25 maybe renewed depending on funding
• Pay scale: L1 to L4

What skills and experience we're looking for

This new arm of our school service, the Behaviour and Outreach team, has been created in response to the AP and SEN improvement plan.

The aim of the team is to ensure successful reintegration of pupils into the mainstream who have completed placements in our Outstanding Alternative provision school the ContinU Plus Academy (CPA). The Outreach Lead will be a member of the School’s Leadership team and be responsible for a team of two other newly appointed staff.

You will be part of a service that supports mainstream settings to deliver quality teaching and timely interventions that improves outcomes for vulnerable children and young people with behaviour challenges.

You will work in a multi-professional way in partnership with our Local authority, Feeder schools and linked professionals/agencies. You will offer a program of services within mainstream schools to effectively support reintegration of pupil’s post CPA referral. The role is vital to the development of our school’s offer and you will lead on building positive parenting links in addition to working with mainstream school.

Our ultimate aim is to reduce exclusions across Worcestershire and improve the quality of the service Alternative Provisions offer.

Our aim is to improve outcomes and reduce suspensions and permanent exclusions for children and young people.

Main purpose of the job

• To work across the educational settings within Worcestershire to improve the reintegration offer for pupils who have accessed the CPA.
• To improve teaching and learning for students who present classroom challenges within the mainstream environment.
• To provide resources for students with SEMH needs or who are at risk of exclusion
• To deliver training for school staff across settings in Worcestershire to develop the understanding and skills involved in successfully teaching SEMH/SEN pupils.
• To support a caseload of pupils with SEMH needs or behavioural challenges, providing mentoring to support reintegration.
• To develop and maintain effective networks across key staff in schools with responsibilities for behaviour and inclusion to enable the effective embedding of good practice and broadening of capacity in local schools.
• Facilitate the work of school-to-school support to build capacity and raise standards, by developing a Behaviour and Inclusion network to allow good practice to be shared across Lambeth.

• To deliver a behaviour CPD program for school staff and work collaboratively with the school support services
• Undertake evaluation of behaviour policies in schools and teacher performance with senior leaders of schools.

What the school offers its staff

Assistant Headteacher - Lead of Outreach

Salary L1 -L4

Closing date: 21/10/2024 Interviews 24/10/2024 & 25/10/2024

This new arm of our school service, the Behaviour and Outreach team, has been created in response to the AP and SEN improvement plan.

The aim of the team is to ensure successful reintegration of pupils into the mainstream who have completed placements in our Outstanding Alternative provision school the ContinU Plus Academy (CPA). The Outreach Lead will be a member of the School’s Leadership team and be responsible for a team of two other newly appointed staff.

You will be part of a service that supports mainstream settings to deliver quality teaching and timely interventions that improves outcomes for vulnerable children and young people with behaviour challenges.

You will work in a multi-professional way in partnership with our Local authority, Feeder schools and linked professionals/agencies. You will offer a program of services within mainstream schools to effectively support reintegration of pupil’s post CPA referral. The role is vital to the development of our school’s offer and you will lead on building positive parenting links in addition to working with mainstream school.

Our ultimate aim is to reduce exclusions across Worcestershire and improve the quality of the service Alternative Provisions offer.

Our aim is to improve outcomes and reduce suspensions and permanent exclusions for children and young

Further details about the role

ContinU Plus Academy

Person Specification

It is essential that in you can meet the following requirements for the role and be able to give evidence or examples of your proven experience in each of the shortlisting criteria marked Application (A).

You should expect that all areas listed below will be assessed as part of the interview and assessment process should you be shortlisted.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident scheme, you will need to give evidence or examples of your proven experience in the areas marked with “Ticks” (✓) on the person specification when you complete the application form.

Shortlisting Criteria

Qualifications

ü Qualified teacher: PGCE or equivalent

ü Qualified SENCO

ü A

ü A

Skills and knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of all national legislation, code of practice and statutory requirements & legal framework regarding exclusions and suspensions
• Robust understanding of the needs and strategies necessary to support children with SEMH needs or behavioural challenges
• A proven knowledge of equal opportunities and inclusion policies as they affect pupils and their families
• Knowledge and understanding of the nature and effects of racial and economic disadvantage and inner-city deprivation and the ability to develop appropriate responses to the arising needs
• Detailed knowledge of the latest educational research and best practice relating to behaviour and safeguarding in schools

ü A

ü A

Experience

• Experience of analysing data to inform operational procedures
• Experience of coordinating interventions for students with SEMH needs or at risk of exclusion
• Practical working experience of developing and providing training to teachers and school staff
• Proven teaching experience of raising standards leading to good outcomes for pupils.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and manage delivery of varied workloads to agreed standards, whilst carrying an individual caseload, without direct supervision
• Experience of working in a situation where different agencies and disciplines have been required to work together collaboratively.
• Experience of developing strategic plans to improve outcomes within an educational setting and drafting SEN and / or behaviour policies

Core Values and Behaviours

Equity

• Listen to the views of others and ask for their opinions making sure that everyone in my team inputs into the things that matter.
• Ensure fairness and justice is at the heart of my decision making and support to my team and others.
• Take time to build trust, building the respect of our stakeholders and ensuring as a team we take accountability for doing what we agree to do.
• Develop others and ensure we work as one team for Lambeth, encouraging everyone to play their part
• Take positive action to ensure everyone in my team has opportunities to learn and grow at work
• Encourage everyone to be themselves at work and value who they are
• I am inclusive and actively celebrate diversity, recognising everyone in my team as individuals.

Kindness

• Treat each member of my team with respect and dignity just as I would want for myself.
• Encourage each member of my team to do their very best work and am available to them to provide support and guidance.
• Personalise my support to each team members and look out for them, lending a hand wherever I can
• Encourage everyone to try and learn from mistakes and use integrity to take action with my team to put things right together
• Work with empathy seeking to understand each and every member of team, their unique perspective and circumstances and ensure everyone is heard
• Take the time to communicate, being honest, open and genuine and taking the time to get to know team members as individuals.
• Show compassion and patience recognising that everyone in the team has unique experience and celebrating the great work they do for Lambeth.
• Look after the health and wellbeing of my team members and encourage open and regular discussions about the issues that impact on them, working together to find solutions.

Accountability

• I encourage and support my team to do the right thing even when it’s tough and we communicate our decisions in a timely way
• I ensure my team and employees take individual and collective accountability for performance and delivery, making sure that they have clear plans and performance objectives.
• I ensure my team plan ahead, getting the basics right and take swift action when problems arise
• I encourage my team to be risk aware and ensuring that our decisions and actions are informed and understood and communicated to others.
• I provide regular, timely and constructive feedback to my team members on their performance and behaviours and act quickly when performance is not on track.
• I share my learning, knowledge and skills with others thorough coaching and mentoring and encourage others to do the same.
• I ensure that my team and I put residents, communities, customers and their needs at the centre of everything we do.
• I encourage my team to learn and grow and ask questions to find the information they need to do their jobs

Ambition

• Am proud of our borough and my team and encourage everyone in the team to aim for the highest possible standards of excellence in everything we do.
• Encourage my team to be flexible and try new things when it’s appropriate to do so and tell me what could be improved.
• Promote a one team for Lambeth approach reaching out to our stakeholders to face our challenges together
• Encourage and support my team to be courageous for our residents and communities and stop at nothing to ensure they have the best possible outcomes
• I make time for the team to Innovate and look for creative ways to do things better, being curious about possibilities.
• Positively challenge and encourage the team to collaborate and look for solutions together across service and team boundaries.
• Make time for my team to grow and develop taking advantage of opportunities to learn from each other and others. We plan our learning and career growth.

Commitment to safeguarding

ContinU Plus Academy 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

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About Continu Plus Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 17
• School size: 30 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 17
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Continu Plus Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: cmurphy@cpa.worcs.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01562822463
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/continu-plus-academy (opens in new tab)

We are an "Outstanding" Alternative Free School in the beautiful county of Worcestershire, teaching secondary school aged pupils in a warm nurturing environment.

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