Assistant Principal with Responsibility for Safeguarding (DSL)

Bristnall Hall Academy, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68 9PA

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  01 January 2025

• Closing date

  30 September 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £61,882.00 - £68,400.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Salary Scale: 12 - 16

Assistant Principal with Responsibility for Safeguarding (DSL) job summary

Are you looking for a position in Senior leadership? Are you a creative, inspiring, and dynamic Safeguarding Specialist? Then Bristnall Hall Academy may be able to give you the opportunity you are looking for.  We are recruiting for an Assistant Principal with Responsibility for Safeguarding to ensure the consistent application of the safeguarding and child protection policy and procedures in line with all requirements in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 and Working Together to Safeguard Children.

Assistant Principal with Responsibility for Safeguarding (DSL)

L12 - 16 £61,882 - £68,400 per annum

Permanent Full Time Contract

Bristnall Hall Academy is one rooted in working to provide the very best teaching and learning for our all our students, with a strong commitment to removing barriers to learning for all. We celebrate with our students not only the joys and diversity of our subject, but also the academic rigour of it, too.

Due to our increasing PAN and student numbers, we are excited to offer the opportunity to join our academy as our staff body continues to grow and support our larger year groups of 220 students. This is an exciting time to join our academy as we celebrate our Outstanding Academy Inspection in November 2023. Inspectors stated that Bristnall Hall Academy is a “truly inclusive and harmonious school” and that “everyone is proud to be part of a close-knit school community that is working together with a common purpose.” Our staff “feel valued” and our classrooms “ooze enthusiasm and productivity”.

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Principal who is an experienced, committed and excellent Safeguarding practitioner. The successful candidate will be an ambitious leader who has high expectations of themselves, outstanding leadership skills and the ability to raise standards of achievement, making a significant difference to the lives of our learners.

Why choose Bristnall Hall Academy? We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.

We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life.

In return, you can expect fantastic Professional Development opportunities, a comprehensive employee benefits package, shopping discounts, cycle-to-work and gym schemes, cinema tickets and an employee assistance programme.

Bristnall Hall Academy is sponsored by Academy Transformation Trust, whose mission is to transform learning, aspirations and opportunities for their pupils and the communities in which they live. This commitment also extends to staff who are key to their success.

To learn more and apply online, please see our application pack for more information and visit our careers page.

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

Commitment to safeguarding

Bristnall Hall Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and successful applicants will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2023.

We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

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 Bristnall Hall Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1082 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Bristnall Hall Academy website (opens in new tab)
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Bristnall Hall Academy is part of the Academy Transformation Trust family of academies.

Bristnall Hall Academy is an 11-16, unique community academy with an extensive offering supported by a strong reputation for partnerships and inclusivity. We are a thriving and oversubscribed academy with a well-established reputation for outcomes for students. In 2022, our Progress 8 of +0.84 made us the highest performing Academy in Sandwell again.

We are on a journey of rapid transformation toward outstanding and this is indicated in our latest Ofsted inspection in November 2021, where Ofsted validated the significant progress Bristnall Hall Academy has made beyond the realms of Good and not instead, has ‘sufficient evidence of improved performance to suggest that it might be judged Outstanding’.

We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.

We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life. Whilst other schools and academies often comment on their struggles with recruiting quality, specialist staff, Bristnall Hall has retained and recruited successfully. From this term, we have even more outstanding teachers who will further strengthen our remarkable team.

We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.

We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life.

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