14 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    January 2025

  • Closing date

    15 November 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    1 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Salary: Leadership Pay Scale Points 3-5 (£52,301 - £54,936 per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications: • Degree or equivalent • QTS

Experience: • A very strong track record of impact and high performance, ideally against whole school priorities • Experience of effective middle leadership • Strong classroom teacher and primary experience • Good stakeholder engagement and management experience, including pupils, parents/carers and staff • Experience leading, motivating and supporting staff to achieve high standards

Skills, Knowledge: • Demonstrable ability to consistently meet or exceed agreed targets for pupil or school outcomes. • Ability to inspire and lead highly effectively across a whole school • Able to take account of others’ views and take people with them • Ability to think strategically - handling intellectual and practical complexity • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to express ideas in ways which make an impact and to be direct and clear • Knowledge of knowledge rich curriculum principles and design, effective pedagogy • Knowledge of effective approaches to the leadership of inclusion, behaviour, attendance and SEND

Personal qualities and attributes: • Highly ambitious for pupils • Emotional resilience - able to work effectively under pressure and receive feedback positively • Drive and determination • Strong commitment to personal development • Collaborative – seeking and sharing knowledge, support and advice with colleagues at all levels and across the school • Able to act effectively on own initiative and also take direction in a high impact way • Belief that all pupils can succeed, regardless of background or context • Belief in principles of inclusion • Belief that all pupils have an entitlement to a high-quality, academic curriculum, based on powerful knowledge • Belief that all pupils should have access to rich cultural pursuits in the arts or sport • Sense of moral responsibility

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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About Great Yarmouth Primary Academy

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
422 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11

Great Yarmouth Primary Academy is a 4-11 primary school, serving this busy and diverse Norfolk coastal community. We encourage our pupils to think big and aim for the highest results and greatest success at school and beyond.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust, a close-knit family of schools in East Anglia, and work closely with our sister primary and secondary schools in the town.

Arranging a visit to Great Yarmouth Primary Academy

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

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