Headteacher
Hallmoor School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B33 0DL19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
20 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
28 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary: L24-30
What skills and experience we're looking for
Hallmoor School is an inclusive, forward-thinking and popular specialist school for pupils aged 5 to 19 years with a range of diagnosis including Learning Difficulties, Autism and Complex Needs. The number on roll has increased to almost 300 children in recent years with further growth expected. We are considering some exciting possibilities for the future, which can only be delivered by an exceptional Headteacher. The school has been through significant change and improvement in recent years under the stewardship of incumbent Headteacher, Paul Donkersloot, culminating in it being graded ‘Good’ by Ofsted in December 2023.
We are looking for a new Headteacher who can share our excitement about the next stage of development, building on its success and continuing its positive journey to excellence. You will play a critical role in driving the school forwards by working with and developing a talented group of senior & middle leaders and a dedicated, caring staff team. The school is supported by a wide multi-disciplinary team, which includes speech & language therapists and occupational therapists to ensure that pupils access therapeutic interventions, a Family Support Worker and a Counsellor who contribute to support for families and carers.
The successful candidate will be an exemplary leader, teacher and role model with leadership experience of working in special education. Experience of teaching pupils with complex learning difficulties and of having worked with different age groups would be useful and you must be ambitious for all learners, whatever their additional needs. You must have the ability to initiate and lead change in a positive way which makes a real difference to learning and above all, share the school’s commitment to ensuring the students are safe and happy and achieve their full potential. Working in a supportive Trust environment must be central to your thinking, receiving and giving capacity to the wider network of schools.
What the school offers its staff
The school is part of Forward Education Trust (FET), an established and developing MAT of 7 special schools in Birmingham, Solihull and Sandwell. The Trust believes that its staff and leaders are its most important asset and that valuing them and utilising their many talents will deliver the best experiences for pupils. You will be empowered to make decisions and to be creative. You will join supportive and well-established collaborative networks, where colleagues support each other and we learn from each other. The Trust will have a real interest in your future and will be keen to explore ways that you can develop personally and professionally.
Further details about the role
Contact Martin Blair at Hays Leadership for a confidential discussion, to arrange a visit to the school, to discuss making an application or to arrange an informal conversation with the Trust’s CEO, Simon Dilkes. Martin will provide candidates with a link to the Forward Education Trust Applicant’s website to complete a formal application.
Closing date: Friday 20th September at 9am
Interviews: Thursday 27th and Friday 28th September 2024
Start date – January 2025
Martin Blair
T: 07736791138
E: martin.blair@hays.com
FET and Hallmoor School value equality and diversity and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment practises including satisfactory references and the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Hallmoor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 273 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Hallmoor School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- martin.blair@hays.com
Hallmoor School specialises in the education of pupils aged 4 to 19 years with cognition, learning and communication
difficulties, all of whom have an Education Health and Care Plan. Pupils within the school have a wide range of learning needs
which may include SLD and ASD. The school strives for high standards of teaching and learning and is committed to ensuring
that all pupils achieve their full potential.
Arranging a visit to Hallmoor School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email martin.blair@hays.com.
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