Director of Haybridge Alliance SCITT
Haybridge High School and Sixth Form, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, DY8 2XSThis job expired on 16 October 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
16 October 2023 at 9am
Date listed
26 September 2023
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership 16-20
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Evidence of excellent and substantial middle or senior leadership within a school and/or ITT provider.
- Experience of leading initial teacher training, developing practice to positively influence the progress of trainees.
- A thorough knowledge, understanding and experience of delivering ITE quality assurance and enhancement processes to a very high standard, including excellent knowledge of the ITE Ofsted inspection framework and DfE ITT accreditation.
- Financial ability and a developing understanding and/or experience of managing budgets including costing and pricing.
- Experience of working in a complex environment, able to adapt and to develop solutions in response to new situations building on previous knowledge and skills.
- The ability to establish effective working relationships at all levels within the organisation and external to the organisation with strong influencing and negotiating skills.
- Resilience, the ability to handle high levels of pressure and be able to meet deadlines.
- Enthusiastic, highly motivated with an enquiring mind and passion for excellence.
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
What the school offers its staff
We are proud to offer an attractive range of benefits including:
- Access to the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme and Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Salary sacrifice cycle scheme
- Access to lifestyle savings
- Access to annual flu jabs
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive CPD
- Access to on-site gym and sports facilities at some of our schools
- Staff long service recognised at our annual awards ceremonies.
Further details about the role
About Us
The Four Stones Multi Academy Trust is a family of like-minded, forward-thinking, inclusive schools based in the West Midlands. The Trust is currently home to three schools (over 3000 students in total) all with differing contexts and serving different communities. We also have a large SCITT and act as the Teaching School Hub for Sandwell and Dudley. We are an organisation that aims to make a difference every single day to the lives of young people in our communities, as well as being a fulfilling and enjoyable place for colleagues to work.
Our well established SCITT has gone from strength to strength, bucking national trends in terms of recruitment. We are the largest SCITT in the West Midlands with over 130 postgraduate and undergraduate trainees enrolled in 2023/24. It really is an exciting time to join us as we look to continue with our growth strategy and embed the ITT core content framework.
Who we are looking for:
We are looking for an experienced Director of SCITT who will have an immediate impact and will lead our ITT provision after successful reaccreditation for September 2024.
The successful candidate will be a highly ambitious, inspired, and enthusiastic professional who will work with others to create a shared strategic vision which motivates trainees and staff alike. You will lead on all strategic and operational development, ensuring the SCITT provides consistently high-quality training in line with the core content framework. You will be responsible for the recruitment, assessment and accreditation of trainees. You will take a lead role in the further development of relationships between the SCITT, host schools and external agencies and will be accountable for the SCITT outcomes and quality assurance processes.
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.
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About Haybridge High School and Sixth Form
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1174 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lshoring@thefourstonesmat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01562811126
Haybridge High School & Sixth Form is an 11 – 18 comprehensive school and a founding partner of The Four Stones Multi Academy Trust. The school is situated in the north of Worcestershire and serves a community of five villages. Annually oversubscribed, Haybridge High School & Sixth Form has maintained an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted judgement since its first inspection in 1996.
At its simplest, the school’s mission statement remains the same each year and that is to work to achieve the best possible outcomes for all our students thereby ensuring the best life chances for everybody in our care. The school prides itself on adding value to all its students and in 2018 saw a Progress 8 score at GCSE of +0.73 with 70% of the cohort achieving a grade 5 or higher in English & Mathematics
This pride in the examination performance of our students is underpinned by a belief that ‘an education’ is more than just a set of qualifications but is an experience which allows young people to enhance their natural talents, gifts and abilities. We strive to ensure that all our students are supported to be the articulate, tolerant, resilient and caring young people who will go into the world beyond Haybridge as lifelong learners capable of achieving great things and making a difference.
The school became a National Support School (and the Headteacher Caroline Hoddinott a National Leader in Education) and a Teaching School in 2011, an Academy in 2012, a SCITT (School Centred Teacher Training) in 2015 and in partnership with King Charles I School in Kidderminster, a MAT in 2018.
Arranging a visit to Haybridge High School and Sixth Form
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lshoring@thefourstonesmat.co.uk.
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