Associate Assistant Headteacher – Faculty of Innovation (Science & Technology)
Fortis Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NUThis job expired on 13 October 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2023
Closing date
13 October 2022 at 9am
Date listed
23 September 2022
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Permanent - Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L8 – L11 £50,653 - £54,632
Pay scale
- L8 – L11 £50,653 - £54,632
Associate Assistant Headteacher – Faculty of Innovation (Science & Technology) job summary
Are you looking for a challenge; one which will excite you, develop your career and allow you to flourish? Why not join the Fortis Family? We are looking to appoint an innovative, dynamic and enthusiastic Associate Assistant Head Teacher who can engage students and ignite their academic potential.
The successful candidate will find our students enthusiastic, eager to learn and willing to co-operate. Most importantly, our students will enjoy working with you. You will be joining a friendly, happy, vibrant 11-18 Academy which is highly successful, serving a multi-cultural and diverse community, where your innovation, creativity and passion will be valued and fostered. Support from established and experienced colleagues is available and therefore the post is suitable for a newly qualified teacher or a more experienced teacher wishing to gain further experience.
Fortis Academy was launched in September 2020 and encompasses a rich and harmonious multicultural community and is committed to the development of all students with many staying on in our highly successful Sixth Form. From September 2022, we are launching our Digital Transformation Strategy, where students will learn by iPad and staff will develop their skills of teaching and learning though Apple Technology as well as in the traditional way.
This is an exciting opportunity for a progressive and ambitious teacher. You should be: • Passionate about your subject and have an appetite to inspire young people • Driven to ensure excellent student progress for students of all abilities • Hardworking, imaginative and have excellent organisational and time management skills • A dedicated team player who wants to work and engage with colleagues at all levels
Career opportunities within the Trust are significant. All leaders are supported to excel. There is a bespoke leadership pathway programme, which enables the next stage of professional growth within the group.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: • Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses includes all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQML. • High quality subject and thematic networks across the Trust and the region. • Experienced leadership and subject-specific support. • Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust. • Access to the Trust’s Teaching School, Research School, Institute of Education and SCITT. • Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate. • Participating in peer reviews. • Access to a suite of online courses. • Placement projects within our family of schools.
The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your employment: • Teachers Pension • Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health • Cycle to work scheme • Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust. We can offer you: • Students eager for success and keen to co-operate • Supportive parents and carers who value education and support teacher initiatives • A bespoke programme of CPD and Trust-wide opportunities, for NQTs and experienced colleagues • A firm commitment to your well-being and work/life balance
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Fortis Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1339 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fortis Academy website
- Email address
- a.darkes@fortis.shaw-education.org.uk
Great Barr Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.
We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.
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