Headteacher
Q3 Academy Tipton, Tipton, West Midlands, DY4 7NRThis job expired on 26 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
26 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Competitive Salary on STPCD Leadership Scale (Group 7) L32-L38
What skills and experience we're looking for
Q3 Academy Tipton is a fantastic, diverse and fully inclusive secondary school at the heart of its community in Tipton, in Sandwell. We admit 300 students into Year 7 and we have a popular and growing Sixth Form. In total, we have over 1,600 amazing students on roll with us. Our values of Kindness, Ambitious, Resilience, and Respect run through Academy life like letters in a stick of rock, unlocking our vision of "Knowing more, Doing more, Achieving more".
As a school rooted in our local community, we have a long history and, over the course of the past six years the school has been on a constant upward trajectory: dramatically improving academic standards; improving behaviour, wellbeing, and attendance; attracting first-class teachers and associate staff; delivering innovative community-led engagement, and becoming the first-choice school for families in our community, including many staff. We are proud to be a rapidly-improving school.
The Mercian Trust and Local Governing Body are looking to appoint an ambitious and inspirational leader with a commitment to our Trust’s mission of social mobility and social justice together with a proven track record of leading innovation and development, in line with our Trust’s Blueprint for leadership and culture. The successful candidate will continue this upward trajectory as Q3 Academy Tipton continues on its journey to become a truly incredible community school. They will be ably supported by a passionate and invested community of staff, students, governors, and families, and will be enabled to thrive through the collaborative support of our Trust’s Executive Team, School Improvement experts and Trust Professional Services – along with local governors and trustees, who together are focused on further developing the strong foundations at Q3 Academy Tipton.
What the school offers its staff
- A superb staff team committed to doing their absolute best for all in our school community.
- Support from our Trust central teams and other schools in our Trust to ensure you have the tools to deliver success (our schools are all located close to one another, and we work better when we are working together).
- A wealth of support for your ongoing continuing professional development, including a Trust-wide programme for leaders drawing on expertise from across the Mercian Trust and external professional coaches.
- A comprehensive employee assistance and staff benefits package including Simplyhealth (cash-back health plan and 24:7 video call and telephone access to GP and counselling), salary sacrifice schemes including our new Electric Car scheme, and discounts portal (ranging from gym membership to discount cards and vouchers for online and high street retailers).
- There will never be a dull moment; we never stand still, every day offers new challenges and opportunities within an ambitious, forward-thinking team.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
All post holders are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service Check (DBS) and satisfactory employment references, as well as identification and qualification checks which will be required before commencing duties.
All appointments are subject to two satisfactory references and online search.
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About Q3 Academy Tipton
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1587 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Q3 Academy Tipton website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lin.koo@merciantrust.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01922 211388
Q3 Tipton has high expectations for all students and is one of nine schools in the Mercian Academy Trust. We embed the ethos of the Trust: “To live life to the full in pursuit of that which is good, right and true” and are passionate about social equality within our community. “Pupils understand expectations and appreciate the positive environment. Teachers treat pupils as individuals, and pupils welcome this. Pupils feel confident to ‘be themselves’ in this inclusive community” (Ofsted, 2022).
We are a large inclusive and diverse 11 – 19 school. Our students come from many backgrounds, speak different languages and follow different faiths. Students are encouraged to join our advocate groups: anti-racism, anti-sexism, pro-LGBTQIA+ and inter-faith. We are fully committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We are proud that our staff body reflects the diversity of our student community including our middle and senior leaders.
Arranging a visit to Q3 Academy Tipton
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lin.koo@merciantrust.org.uk.
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