Headteacher
Longwill A Primary School for Deaf Children, Birmingham, West Midlands, B31 1LD14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time Post Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18 - L24
What skills and experience we're looking for
Core Purpose:
The core purpose of this role is to provide professional leadership, strategic direction, andmanagement in order to ensure the school’s continued success. To achieve this, the HeadTeacher will work in partnership with staff, governors, Special Schools Co-operative Trust,parents,children, the wider School and Deaf community and agencies to:
- Inspire the whole School community and effectively provide vision, leadership, and direction.
- Create and maintain an environment which promotes and secures outstanding teaching, effective learning, and high standards of achievement, behaviour and a passion for learning.
- Promote excellence, equality and high expectations of staff and pupils and carry out day to day management of the school including statutory compliance.
- Evaluate the School’s performance, identify priorities for continuous development, plan and implement school improvements.
- Deploy resources to achieve the school’s aims and priorities within the limits of the school budget.
- Work with the Birmingham Special Schools Co-operative Trust, promote the Trust’s values and contribute effectively to the purposes of the Trust, in conjunction with the other schools within the Trust.
What the school offers its staff
Developing self and working with others:
- Regularly review own practice, set personal targets, and take responsibility for own personal development.
- Develop and maintain effective strategies and procedures for staff induction, professional development, and performance reviews.
- Treat people equitably and with dignity and respect to create and maintain a positive Culture across the school.
- Ensure clear delegation of tasks and responsibilities, so that teams and individuals undertake effective planning, allocation, support, and evaluation of work.
- Develop an excellent working relationship with the Governing Body, school leadership team, engaging regularly in open discussion.
- Motivate and inspire the whole staff team, developing excellent, professional working relationships.
- Build a collaborative learning culture within the school and actively engage with other schools in the Co-operative Trust and beyond to build effective learning communities.
- Foster excellent relationships with local and national professional partners – particularly other schools using a Sign Bilingual approach so that children and staff may benefit from the development they offer.
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
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About Longwill A Primary School for Deaf Children
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 12
- School size
- 62 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 12
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- j.smith@longwill.bham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01214753923
Longwill Primary Special School for Deaf Children
Longwill is currently a 56 place Special School for profoundly Deaf children aged from 2-11 years old who come from across the West Midlands Region.
The Learning Environment
• Longwill is a Sign-Bilingual, bi-cultural learning environment, which strives to support and develop the communication needs and abilities of its members so that the pupils are equipped to function effectively within both the Hearing and the Deaf world.
• We educate our pupils as independent free thinkers, ready for 21st century life, capable of embracing the technology of tomorrow, who are adaptable, self reliant, resourceful and tolerant of change and who can contribute to the wider community.
• Pupils are taught within small groups by Teachers of the Deaf.
• 11 Deaf staff act as positive cultural and linguistic role models, teaching BSL and supporting learning in the classroom. Both languages (English and BSL) are equally valued and promoted.
• The Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) are woven into the curriculum to ensure the emotional wellbeing of all pupils. We have three Learning Mentors on our staff.
• We teach English through a variety of means, using BSL, Sign Supported English, Signed English, as well as communicating orally where appropriate.
• We employ a digital team to ensure that Longwill continues to lead the way in using digital media to enhance deaf education.
• We employ a clinical audiologist as part of our ‘listening team’ to enhance the work of the Speech and Language therapists and assistants and Educational Audiologist.
Initiatives
• The school is part of the Birmingham Schools Co-operative Trust. It has an outward facing approach and recognises the benefits of strong partnership working.
• We teach BSL courses in school and encourage a wider community of schools to know BSL.
• All Teachers of the Deaf engage in Action Research and collaborate closely with universities in developing and improving ways to teach Deaf pupils.
• Longwill teaches Thinking and Learning skills especially through the use of Building Learning Power.
• ‘Visual Phonics by Hand’- was developed at Longwill to support phonic skills for Deaf pupils, who are visual learners.
The school holds the Gold Rights Respecting Schools Award (UNCRC) and is proud of our achievement in creating a school where pupil voice is strong and pupils are confident contributors to making the world a better place.
Please visit through our website www.longwill.bham.sch.uk
Headteacher- Mrs Alison Carter
Longwill School, Bell Hill, Northfield, Birmingham B31 1LD
Email – a.carter@longwill.bham.sch.uk
Telephone – 0121 475 3923
Arranging a visit to Longwill A Primary School for Deaf Children
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email j.smith@longwill.bham.sch.uk.
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