Associate Assistant Headteacher – Sport, Health and Community
Bolton St Catherine's Academy, Bolton, BL2 4HU2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Required April / September 2025
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
4 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: All year round
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £59,167 - £65,286
Pay scale
- L8 – L12
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead both sport and health provision for pupils within our school, but also take a wider responsibility in developing our work on community engagement. We are looking for an ambitious leader, who has a proven track record in leading PE/Sport in a school and is now looking for their next step to widen their own leadership development and skill set.
This is the perfect training ground for those wishing to take their first step into senior leadership and flourish. You will gain a place on our Trust’s ‘Into SLT’ course run by our CEO, which also will mean you have the benefit of an external coach while you are getting to grips with the wider role. We want to find someone who is deeply passionate about not just changing children’s life chances, but social justice more generally. They will understand the nature of a challenging context and love working within one, never making excuses but still full of empathy. They will relentlessly search for ways to remove the most stubborn barriers to learning. They will be deeply passionate about social justice and driven to break poverty cycles. They will do this with passion, energy and great humour.
We believe that our school has a wider role than just producing educational outcomes for our children (although these are critical!); we believe that we have a wider duty to ensure that our whole community can ‘live life in its fullness’. We are looking for that champion. If that sounds like you, please do apply!
Key Duties will include:
- Be the curriculum leader for PE and Health and Social Care, leading a committed team to securing great outcomes.
- play a central role in driving forward, promoting and supporting the creation, fostering and management of partnerships that maximise pupil and community engagement. This may initially be centred around sporting provision, but as you develop in your leadership and understanding of the community, we want you to widen this out to other areas.
- Take a lead on ensuring that where we have public events, such a parent’s evenings or school shows, we are maximising opportunities to engage and signpost our community with other opportunities available to them (both from school but also the wider community).
- Work alongside the AAHT for Personal Development, to ensure that the health education provision within PSHE is excellent and teachers are well trained to deliver this aspect.
- Working with the Deputy Headteacher: Pastoral, develop our work on wider community cohesion, ensuring that we are tracking impact of our initiatives so we can use our resources widely.
- provide a positive role model – always teaching good lessons and sharing practice amongst staff in our school.
- Be an active member of the school’s senior leadership team
What the school offers its staff
In return we can offer:
- A strong commitment to your ongoing professional development, including a guaranteed place on the Trust’s ‘Into SLT programme’ and an external coach
- The opportunity to work collaboratively with other school leaders throughout the Trust.
- The chance to make a real difference to the lives of our inspiring children and wider community.
- A rewarding role with the opportunity to really make your mark and show real impact.
- Access to other employee benefits offered by our Trust.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Bishop Fraser Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to child protection screening including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and also past employment checks. We are an equal opportunities employer. References will be sought prior to interview.
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About Bolton St Catherine's Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 16
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1051 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Bolton St Catherine's Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- scass@boltonstcatherinesacademy.org.uk
Bolton St Catherine’s Academy educates children and young people from 3 to 16 years of age. The values of Bolton St Catherine’s Academy are underpinned by a growing Christian ethos and is an inclusive Academy for those of Christian faith, for those of other faiths, and those of no faith. St Catherine is the patron saint of students and scholars and at Bolton St Catherine’s Academy, learning is at the heart of everything.
Students will leave the Academy with
• Good academic outcomes
• The Christian values of respect, tolerance and service
• A positive and enduring outlook
so that they live happy, healthy and purposeful lives – irrespective of their background or circumstances.
The entire Academy is geared to support every single child as they develop and progress, guaranteeing success for each individual. Bolton St Catherine’s Academy is located in a £36million building with innovative spaces and state of the art facilities to support children’s learning. These facilities are amongst the very best in the country and support in delivering a rich, varied and relevant curriculum.
Challenging targets and goals are set for every single student and staff work tirelessly to ensure these are achieved. Children learn and develop most effectively when they are happy and secure. At Bolton St Catherine’s Academy staff strive to develop an environment in which learners thrive, working to develop trust and mutual respect between everybody within the Academy and beyond.
It is through the school’s new values of Believe, Strive, Care and Achieve, that the Academy will continue to build on the progress it has made. In 2018, the Primary school gained the best KS2 results of any school in the BL2 postcode area and was in the top 3 % nationally for Maths and the top 10% nationally for Writing.
Arranging a visit to Bolton St Catherine's Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email scass@boltonstcatherinesacademy.org.uk.
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