Associate Assistant Headteacher: Alternative Provision Lead
Longbenton High School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE12 8ER2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April/Easter 2025 or September 2025
Closing date
7 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Full time, permanent post.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L8-10 (£59,457 - £62,509)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We have a vacancy for leadership of our small Alternative Provision department. We are open minded about recruitment to this post and are looking for applications from existing pastoral leaders, subject leads and managers of teams. We need someone with the experience of team and project leadership, the capacity for vision and out of the box thinking, and to be creative with solutions for our disaffected and vulnerable learners.This role would be an Associate Assistant Headteacher post and part of our extended SLT, on the Leadership Scale.
This role will involve supporting students who face various challenges, including difficulties transitioning from primary to secondary school and disengagement from education. For some, these difficulties may manifest as Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA). Some of these students may have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and diagnosed needs. Some students may have learning gaps as well as undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), or Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Inclusion Team and provide vital targeted support for students who are experiencing difficulties within mainstream education but whose needs do not currently meet the thresholds for external specialist services or placement in a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU).
A subject teaching background in Maths or English, PE, or Psychology would be a bonus but not required (there may be a small teaching timetable as part of your working fortnight).
What the school offers its staff
Longbenton High School is a successful 11-18 school with an excellent Sixth Form in a wonderful modern,purpose-built space. This is a school where the chances of all children are championed and where your background isno barrier to success. We are an increasingly popular school - heavily oversubscribed and in the top 5 in the LocalAuthority for 5+ GCSE outcomes in 2024 (top 5% of most improved schools in the region, with a 13% increase in Englishand Maths last summer).
We can offer you:
The support of a vibrant and driven senior leadership team, committed to supporting staff with a mindful approach to teacher workload and promoting a healthy work/life balance.
A fantastic, modern building in a convenient location, within walking distance of several Metro stations and close to Four Lane Ends bus station.
An evidence-informed approach to CPD, offering tailored professional development opportunities for both teaching and support staff.
A collaborative, open-door culture that celebrates and shares best practices.
A strong emphasis on traditional KIDMAP values: Kindness, Integrity, Determination, Manners, Ambition, and Positivity.
Flexible working opportunities
Commitment to safeguarding
Longbenton High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Longbenton High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 964 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Longbenton High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@longbenton.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01912189500
We are a highly aspirational, truly comprehensive 11-18 secondary school of around 1,000 students in North Tyneside. Our vision is ambitious and unapologetic: we are creating change in order to be the school of first choice in the local area. We are passionate about equality, fairness and our students achieving the very best they can. We are proud of our traditional values: kindness, integrity, determination, manners, ambition, and positivity. We are a fully inclusive school, in a wonderful modern building, that is dedicated to both supporting and challenging all members of our diverse community and to developing the potential in all our students, regardless of their starting points. Ours is a calm and orderly work environment, based upon high standards of behaviour and an ethos of trust and care. We were rated Good by OFSTED in June 2022 and are oversubscribed for Year 7 admissions.
Arranging a visit to Longbenton High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@longbenton.org.uk.
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