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  • Start date details

    September 2024

  • Closing date

    19 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    5 April 2024

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: 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Leadership Pay Scale Points 12-18 (£61,882 - £71,728 per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications: • First degree or equivalent • QTS

Experience: • Proven teacher, leader and educational strategist at appropriate phase level • Outstanding classroom practitioner • Proven ability to develop high quality, academic curriculum that exceeds the needs of its pupils • Proven experience of raising standards of achievement/attendance through innovative and collaborative practice • Successful involvement in performance management, self-evaluation process / annual development plan • Evidence of designing and implementing effective initiatives for raising pupil attainment and improving the quality of teaching and learning strategies • Successful working relationships with all stakeholders, including pupils, staff, parents/carers and the wider community • Successful experience in leading and managing at a team, and preferably whole school level • Proven practice in leading, motivating and supporting staff to achieve high standards

Skills, Knowledge: • Able to lead, motivate and develop people of all ages to work individually and in teams • Able to instigate and successfully manage change • Able to analyse and use data to establish benchmarks and set challenging targets for improvement on an individual, team, department and pupil level • Able to make decisions, identify and solve problems based on thorough analysis and sound judgement • Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication and presentation skills • Strong organisational skills and ability to work well under pressure • Ability to delegate, plan and manage time effectively • Personal resilience and the ability to maintain staff morale at times of pressure and change • The ability to access educational research and apply it in innovative ways in order to improve standards

Personal qualities and attributes: • Able to evidence a commitment to on-going personal and professional development, including completion of/willingness to complete relevant leadership training. • A highly professional and positive role model acting as an ambassador for the Trust at all times • Possess integrity and relate appropriately to inspire commitment, enthusiasm and confidence from staff, pupils, academy committee members and parents/carers • Evidence of life-long learning and an understanding of the importance of new ideas, taking appropriate risks and using challenges as an opportunity to grow and learn • A willingness to embrace and celebrate the ethos and values of the school • Respectful towards all pupils, with an unshakable belief in their entitlement to the highest equality education and ability to achieve whatever their personal circumstances

What the school offers its staff

The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.

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.

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About Jane Austen College

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
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School size
1066 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Jane Austen College is a thriving secondary school and sixth form in the heart of Norwich city centre. We combine the modern and traditional, marrying academic rigour and innovative teaching techniques. Our sixth form is one of the top performing in Norfolk and we have been rated by Ofsted as Outstanding in four out of five areas, with an overall rating of Good.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools in East Anglia, and work closely with Charles Darwin Primary and Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form as well as the Trust's other schools around the region.

Arranging a visit to Jane Austen College

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.

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