Vice Principal - Curriculum and Standards

Shireland Collegiate Academy, Smethwick, West Midlands, B66 4ND

8 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 February 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: Fulltime Leadership role
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L19 to L23

What skills and experience we're looking for

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Senior Leadership Team, supporting the Principal in providing whole Academy leadership and ensuring a whole Academy approach to school improvement with a particular focus on curriculum and standards.

Successful candidates will:

• Be passionate about improving the lives of students they serve
• Have a successful track record as a senior/middle leader
• Be an outstanding classroom practitioner with high expectations
• Have the ability to lead and motivate staff to deliver to the highest standards.
• Role model a commitment to excellence
• Have experience of curriculum development and timetabling.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

• Opportunities to work with senior colleagues across our MAT
• Excellent career and professional development opportunities
• A focus on staff wellbeing
• An ICT rich environment which allows staff to be innovative in harnessing technology for learning

We pride ourselves on being an employer where all staff can thrive. We believe that supporting our staff both personally and professionally allows them to give their very best to our students. Our aim is to foster a working culture that recognises and reflects the importance of good mental health and wellbeing and provides effective support when colleagues need it.

Commitment to safeguarding

Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects its entire staff to share this commitment. All post-holders will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), including a Children’s Barred List check for post carrying out a regulated activity.

Applying for the job

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Person Specification Vice Principal Curriculum and Standards.pdf - 123 KB (opens in new tab)

JOB DESCRIPTION Vice Principal Curriculum and Standards.pdf - 110 KB (opens in new tab)

About Shireland Collegiate Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1519 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Shireland Collegiate Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: madams@shirelandcat.net
• Phone number: 01212811630
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shireland-collegiate-academy (opens in new tab)

We are an established multi-academy Trust with schools across the Black Country area of the West Midlands.

Arranging a visit to Shireland Collegiate Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email madams@shirelandcat.net.

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