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Sixth Form Aspiration Lead

Beckfoot School, Bingley, West Yorkshire, BD16 1EE

This job expired on 24 March 2019 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  29 April 2019

• Closing date

  24 March 2019 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  7 March 2019

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £23,720 to £39,406 per year pro rata

Sixth Form Aspiration Lead job summary

Beckfoot Trust Sixth Form is a key driver for social mobility in our schools, our aim is to ensure every student has access to opportunities that will give them firm foundations for the next stage in their educational career. Our UCAS programme is already very good in all three of our sixth forms, it needs further co-ordinating, developing and earlier roll out within and across our schools. The successful candidate will also provide much needed capacity for CEIAG across the Sixth Form.
Similarly we have some excellent practice regarding Oxbridge and similar aspirational destination applications, again though we want this developed and a commitment to early identification of talent from the very early years in our Trust Primary schools. In the first instance this will be through the introduction of an EPQ programme for yr 12 students. This is an exciting opportunity to help further secure Beckfoot Trust’s values in making a difference for the young people of Bradford.

Main Duties and responsibilities
Trust/ Teacher/ Support leadership Expectations
1. To undertake the full range of duties and responsibilities as required by the Chief Executive as set out in The School Teachers Pay and Conditions of Service.
2. Understand, celebrate and champion the vision for School Sixth Form provision across the Beckfoot Trust.
3. Co-ordinate, manage and develop UCAS delivery programme and application process across three Trust Sixth Forms.
4. Audit, Evaluate and enhance the programme for Oxbridge, Medics and related.
5. Re Launch, embed and oversee the EPQ programme across our Sixth Forms. Train and support staff and students in schools to achieve outstanding outcomes.
Communication/ Working with Others
6. Be a key voice and contributor for the new Primary to Sixth Form Aspiration (Scholar’s) programme. This should ensure all students across the Trust have access to opportunities that enable social mobility and outstanding outcomes
7. Work alongside current careers leads across the Trust to strengthen provision, in accordance with Gatsby Benchmarks, for students who want to access higher level apprenticeships and non university post 18.
8. Support relevant school staff in delivering EPQ across the Trust.
9. Train staff across all schools to support young people in UCAS and other post 18 ventures.
10. Develop a Sixth Form suite of resources (virtual or in situ) to support students with the UCAS process (Unifrog Platform is being used in Trust schools)
11. Work with parents and outside agencies to ensure students are supported at home and by other professionals every step of the way.

Professional Development
12. Deliver a world class model for school sixth form CEIAG that not only supports Trust students but that ensures retention and recruitment is strengthened and secured.
13. Longer Term ensure that the Sixth Form model for the above is replicated and supported across our primary, secondary and special schools creating clear progression pathways and a culture of “can do and should do”.
14. Support recruitment, open evenings, UCAS and careers evenings/days and trips where appropriate.

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 Beckfoot School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1632 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Beckfoot School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@beckfoot.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/beckfoot-school (opens in new tab)

Beckfoot School formed the Trust in 2013. It is an 11-18 secondary school with 1660 pupils. The school secured an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted judgement in 2014. It established a Teaching School in 2015 and secured a ‘World Class Quality’ in 2016.

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