Assistant Headteacher
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Job start date
1 January 2021
Closing date
5 October 2020 at 9am
Date listed
21 September 2020
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- L8 - L12 £48,808 to £53,856 (2019/20 Payscale used - this will increase from September 2020)
Assistant Headteacher job summary
Our highly successful innovative and welcoming primary special school caters for 53 pupils between the ages of 2 – 11 years who are Deaf and require a sign bilingual education. The school has a national reputation as a centre of excellence in Deaf Education. We seek to appoint a committed and skilled Assistant Head Teacher who is also a Qualified Teacher of the Deaf, passionate about learning and wishes to work within our sign bilingual setting.The successful candidate would work as a classroom teacher for 3 days per week and take on the role of SENCO for the remaining 2 days.
Longwill is a small, friendly special school which offers an excellent education to Deaf pupils from throughout the West Midlands. We are looking for a practitioner who:
• Is a qualified Teacher of the Deaf, or an outstanding classroom practitioner.
• Has experience in leadership
• Has experience of a SENCO role
• Has high expectations for pupils and is an excellent communicator.
• Thinks creatively.
• Is enthusiastic, motivated and a lifelong learner.
• Is able to work well in teams.
• The ability to communicate in British Sign Language at Level 2 is essential.
We can offer you:
• An innovative and exciting special school environment, committed to providing the best opportunities for Deaf children and staff.
• Delightful and hardworking Deaf sign bilingual children.
• A supportive environment with dedicated and highly skilled staff.
A commitment to CPD is essential.
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.
About Longwill A Primary School for Deaf Children
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 12
- School size
- 62 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 12
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- j.smith@longwill.bham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0121 475 3923
Longwill Primary Special School for Deaf children…
…is a 53 place Special School for profoundly Deaf children aged from 2-11 years old who come from across the West Midlands Region.
The Learning Environment
• Longwill is a Sign-Bilingual, bi-cultural learning environment, which strives to support and develop the communication needs and abilities of its members so that the pupils are equipped to function effectively within both the Hearing and the Deaf world.
• We educate our pupils as independent free thinkers, ready for 21st century life, capable of embracing the technology of tomorrow, who are adaptable, self reliant, resourceful and tolerant of change and who can contribute to the wider community.
• Pupils are taught within small groups by Teachers of the Deaf.
• 11 Deaf staff act as positive cultural and linguistic role models, teaching BSL and supporting learning in the classroom. Both languages (English and BSL) are equally valued and promoted.
• The Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) are woven into the curriculum to ensure the emotional wellbeing of all pupils. We have three Learning Mentors on our staff.
• We teach English through a variety of means, using BSL, Sign Supported English, Signed English, as well as communicating orally where appropriate.
• We employ a digital team to ensure that Longwill continues to lead the way in using digital media to enhance deaf education.
• We employ a clinical audiologist as part of our ‘listening team’ to enhance the work of the Speech and Language therapists and assistants and Educational Audiologist.
Initiatives
• Longwill acts as a hub for the University of Leeds TOD course and our Head Teacher is one of their regional tutors.
• We are part of Brays Teaching Special Schools Alliance and take a lead role in projects and research programmes to spread best practice and training, locally and nationally.
• We teach BSL courses in school and encourage a wider community of schools to know BSL.
• All Teachers of the Deaf engage in Action Research and collaborate closely with universities in developing and improving ways to teach Deaf pupils.
• Longwill teaches Thinking and Learning skills especially through the use of Building Learning Power.
• ‘Visual Phonics by Hand’- was developed at Longwill to support phonic skills for Deaf pupils, who are visual learners.
Please visit through our website www.longwill.bham.sch.uk
Headteacher- Mrs Alison Carter
Longwill School, Bell Hill, Northfield, Birmingham B31 1LD
Email – a.carter@longwill.bham.sch.uk
Tel/minicom – 0121 475 3923
Arranging a visit to Longwill A Primary School for Deaf Children
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email j.smith@longwill.bham.sch.uk.
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