Headteacher
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, B21 9SNThis job expired on 6 December 2021 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2022
Closing date
6 December 2021 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 November 2021
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership
Headteacher job summary
The Role The role will commence in January 2022; however, this is negotiable for the right candidate. You will build excellence through our virtues work and in the academic curriculum, alongside other senior leaders across the Trust. You will also be part of a global community of charitable initiatives.
Our Expectations are that you will:
• Build an environment through a faith and virtues-led education, that encourages compassion, humility and service, and recognises all humanity as one.
• Ensure excellence in teaching and achievement throughout the curriculum within the context of a faith inspired, virtues-led School.
• Nurture a culture that cherishes childhood, stimulates the spirit of adventure and ignites a passion for lifelong learning.
• Recruit, lead, motivate, support and develop staff to ensure that pupils, and staff alike, fulfil their true potential.
• Develop and maintain the support and active involvement of parents in their children’s learning, and to nurture links within the local community.
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 Nishkam Primary School Birmingham
- School type
- Free School, Sikh, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 421 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@nishkamschools.org
- Phone number
- 01213487665
You will be working with a pioneering group, Nishkam School Trust, which is a flagship DfE Free School, and the first multi-academy free school trust in the UK.
The core of a Nishkam education is the triple pursuit of academic excellence, creating a community that supports children throughout their lives and nurturing a strong values-led approach to life.
Our children are a delight to teach, the school has exceptional resources, our teachers are enthusiastic and hardworking, and the support team is dedicated to the wellbeing of all pupils. We opened in September 2011 as a two-form entry school, for pupils aged 4-11 years, with nursery provision attached. We remain significantly oversubscribed.
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