Assistant Headteacher- Vocational and Social Science Faculty

Moseley School and Sixth Form, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 9UU

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2025 or September 2025

• Closing date

  3 February 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  22 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: L8 – L12

Assistant Headteacher- Vocational and Social Science Faculty job summary

We are delighted to present an exceptional opportunity to join Moseley School and Sixth Form as an Assistant Headteacher - Vocational and Social Science Faculty (VocSS).

This role has become available due to the internal promotion of the current post holder, highlighting the career progression opportunities within our school.

Are you a dynamic and passionate educator ready to take the next step in your career? If so, this role could be the perfect fit for you! The VocSS Faculty is made up of Vocational, including Computing, IT, Business and Economics and Social Sciences including Sociology, Psychology, Applied Psychology, Criminology, Law and Health and Social Care. It is a faculty of highly skilled and dedicated teachers who are passionate about their subjects and committed to achieving the best outcomes for our students. Whether your expertise lies in one of the Vocational or Social Sciences, you will find yourself working and teaching alongside a team that shares your drive and commitment to excellence.

The VocSS Faculty is popular with students at KS3, KS4, and Sixth Form, and has a track record of delivering progressive outcomes. The growth in demand for our subject courses—making this one of the largest optional faculties in the school—reflects its strong reputation among students and parents alike.

This is a unique chance to lead a faculty that not only plays a vital role in shaping the aspirations and futures of our students but is also essential to our school’s journey toward excellence.

As part of this role, you will continue to champion and develop our RAISE values: Resilience, Ambition, Independence, Supportiveness, and Effective communication—the cornerstones of our vision to empower staff and students to achieve their best possible futures. These are the foundations upon which our school vision is built to enable our staff and students to the best futures possible.

If you’re a dynamic leader ready to inspire and make an impact, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

Our perfect Assistant Headteacher candidate will:

• Be a consistently outstanding teacher in their specialist subject
• Be committed to exceptional standards of teaching and learning
• Be able to motivate, challenge and inspire staff and students to achieve their best
• Be able to establish and develop good relationships with students and staff
• Contribute to our core vision and values

Working Time: Full-time as specified within the current STPCD. To work as a classroom teacher with leadership allocation

Core Purpose:

• To Provide professional leadership and management of Vocational and Social Science to secure high quality teaching and the effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement for all students.
• To Ensure that students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring that teaching is consistently of a high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any areas of underachievement.

Responsibilities for all teachers:

• Meet the relevant Teachers’ Standards
• Promote the values and aims of the school
• Follow all relevant school policies
• To be aware of, and assume the appropriate level of responsibility for, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies
• Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers
• Treat students, parents and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
• To comply with the school’s Health & Safety policy and statutory requirements

Extended Leadership Responsibilities:

• To provide an inspirational role model for staff and students
• To effectively communicate and demonstrate the core values of the school
• To develop an ethos of academia, character building and success for students and staff
• To provide rich and varied educational and cultural experiences to develop students’ character and attitudes
• To contribute to strategic improvement planning, implementation and evaluation
• Be accountable for aspects of the school improvement plan and school self-evaluation including reporting to Governors as required
• To provide pastoral and disciplinary support both inside and outside the classroom, throughout the school day, and whilst participating in the relevant duty rotas.
• To monitor and evaluate classroom practice, student progress and behaviour
• Collaborate with school stakeholders and partners to develop system wide improvements
• To participate in head of faculty and leadership meetings as required

Specific responsibilities of this role:

• Co-ordinate and lead on a whole school responsibility – for this role that will be Quality Nominee
• Line manage Heads of subject within the faculty.
• Promote a clear vision for the highest quality teaching and learning across the faculty, ensuring all teaching staff have a tailored staff development plan to meet their needs and ensure at least good standards of teaching across the department
• Establish a learning culture which places the 3R’s and the school values at the centre of succeeding together.
• Maintain an excellent knowledge and understanding of the curriculum and its assessment for all subjects taught within the faculty
• Ensure there are schemes of work and supporting resources, including homework, that inspire and engage the full range of learners for subjects taught in the faculty.
• Ensure the whole school literacy and numeracy policy is applied effectively across the faculty.
• Oversee the contribution of the faculty to extra-curricular opportunities for students.
• Use data to analyse the effectiveness of the curriculum, teaching and assessment across the faculty for all groups of learners
• Effective monitoring of student progress, coordinating Masterclasses and interventions to ensure that all learner groups make positive progress.
• To create an inspirational learning environment and ethos for students in the faculty
• In collaboration with department staff formulate a faculty improvement plan, which acts within the whole school improvement agenda, setting priorities for the development of teaching and learning.
• Have responsibility for the quality, standardisation and moderation of all aspects of assessment across the faculty to ensure exacting standards and accurate tracking of student progress.
• Ensure rigorous faculty quality assurance and self-evaluation in line with whole school policy and procedures.
• Produce the faculty self-evaluation form.
• Manage the faculty budget. Lead and promote excellent attitudes to learning among students across the faculty. To liaise with parents and the wider community to provide support to students.
• Providing day-to-day leadership of the faculty including staffing / cover arrangements in line with school policy.
• Participating in the recruitment process, including interviews, for staff who will work within the faculty.
• Ensure that each member of the team understands his or her role and feels valued and supported; welcoming new members of staff and overseeing their induction, especially those who are newly qualified or relatively inexperienced in their roles; working with any trainees who join the faculty.
• Ensure effective communication within the faculty team.
• Lead professional development sessions for the team and contribute to whole school training as appropriate.
• Participate in arrangements of the appraisal of staff performance.
• Monitor staff welfare and hold return to work meetings.
• Monitor that staff comply with school policies and procedures and provide support and challenge where required.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Moseley School and Sixth Form

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1454 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Moseley School and Sixth Form website (opens in new tab)
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The staff at Moseley School and Sixth Form are a passionate team of professionals. Our purpose is to inspire excellence in character and scholarship. The students and their families have bought into this vision. Together we form a friendly and dedicated community.

Moseley School and Sixth Form is a large comprehensive secondary school with a thriving sixth form. Moseley School first opened its doors in 1923. We value our long history whilst being excited about our future. There are 1300 students, 150 teaching and support staff, excellent facilities housed in a grade two listed building, a modern building which opened in 2012 and a recently completed sports complex and extensive grounds. Staff enjoy subsidised healthcare options and access to our on-site gym.

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