Head Teacher
Firs Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B36 8LL9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
18 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
1 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £71,729.00 - £79,112.00 Annually (Actual)
Head Teacher job summary
Do you have the drive, vision, resilience and energy to provide the best possible education for our children?
Do you thrive on the challenge to get things right for pupils?
Do you have dedication and passion to take this vibrant school forward?
Are you committed to inclusive education?
The successful person will need to be an outstanding, innovative and creative leader with a commitment to transforming the life chances of our excellent young people
If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you.
Firs Academy is in a position to appoint a Head Teacher on a permanent contract from 1st January 2025. Part of the success of the school lies in delivering the vision and mission, to give every pupil the chance to achieve their full potential in a safe, welcoming and vibrant learning environment.
At Firs, the rights of all children to make a positive future contribution to society are respected by prioritising learning.
We challenge pupils to attain high academic and personal outcomes, setting and achieving ambitious goals in all they do. Our curriculum is broad, balanced, and knowledge-rich meeting individual needs and interests, building on children’s natural curiosity. Our expectations and values encourage pupils to work and play together positively, developing mutual respect by understanding each other’s cultures, faiths and opinions.
READY for LEARNING and READY for LIFE.
At Firs, children will not only develop and achieve academically, they will also develop lifelong values. The values we embed at Firs are:
- Honesty – developing children who are truthful, trustworthy and genuine.
- Ambition – developing ambitious children who have a strong desire to achieve, providing a sense of direction and motivation towards life goals.
- Kindness – developing children who always treat others with kindness and respect.
The person we are looking for will:
- Place the needs of the school and its pupils ahead of their own needs.
- Have a holistic view of education and a desire to give our children memorable learning experiences
- Seek out and welcome constructive professional feedback.
- Challenge other leaders appropriately and have the ability to ‘challenge up’.
- A commitment to pupils’ welfare and well-being
- An understanding of how to build on, and further develop, the very good practice that already exists at our school
- Embrace their own vulnerabilities and have the courage to be risk takers.
- Learn from others and grow as a team.
- Have high expectations and model these explicitly.
- A strong track record, both as a teacher and school leader
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to inspire and motivate others
- A commitment to work collaboratively in our Trust
- The ability to see the fantastic opportunities our school has to offer and the skills and enthusiasm to make things happen.
We can offer you:
- A collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment, both within your schools and Trust-wide.
- An opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as Level 7 Senior Leaders Masters, with regular twilights.
- Access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance (PPG) process.
- A wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views.
- Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called “My Possible Self”.
- Access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly.
- Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users.
- Opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support.
- Onsite parking at all schools.
This is a great opportunity for a senior leader, aspiring to headship, or for an experienced head, ready for a new challenge. A visit to our website will provide you with lots of additional information about our school and will, we hope, inspire you to apply for the role of head teacher. Visits are highly recommended, and we would be delighted to show you around. Informal enquiries can be made to Mr A Winters (Director of Primary) by e-mail to awinters@whmat.academy
NB CVs will not be accepted
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
We value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We have an outstanding opportunity to work at Firs Academy as a Head Teacher
We promise to treat all candidates fairly, consistently and with respect throughout the application, assessment, and selection process.
We are also “happy to talk flexible working” subject to the operational requirements of the role.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
Washwood Heath Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
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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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Firs Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 353 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Firs Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Firs Primary School
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