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  • Start date details

    Wednesday, 01 January 2025 or sooner if possible

  • Closing date

    5 July 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    14 June 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Deputy headteacher
  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£71,729 to £85,146 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We are seeking an enthusiastic senior leader with demonstrably successful experience of securing whole school improvement. Our Vice Principal will:

  • Be values-driven and determined to improve the life chances of young people.
  • Respect and champion the faith ethos of the school and support its impact on character development.
  • Be an excellent communicator who inspires staff, pupils, families and external partners.
  • Model great teaching and know how to develop the pedagogical skills of colleagues.
  • Understand the barriers impacting the progress of young people, and know the strategies to dismantle them.
  • Be a systematic thinker who follows processes assiduously to embed educational excellence.
  • Be an enthusiastic team player.
  • Have the skills to build the capacity of colleagues to secure ongoing school improvement.

You will have:

  • A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
  • Experience of senior leadership and management within a school setting.
  • Experience of successful and sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
  • A strong commitment to our STAR values.

What the school offers its staff

Star Academies is seeking a motivated and ambitious leader with a passion for educational excellence to become Vice Principal at Eden Boys’ School Birmingham. If you are an inspirational role model, eager to make a positive, lasting difference to young people’s life chances, we want to hear from you.

About Eden Boys' School, Birmingham

Eden Boys’ School, Birmingham is a Muslim faith-based secondary school for 11 to 18 year old boys, which welcomes pupils from all faiths and none. We opened in Perry Barr in 2015 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism. We are extremely proud to be one of the highest performing schools in the country, with the 2nd best Progress 8 score nationally for our 2019 GCSE results.We were graded as ‘Outstanding’ in all areas by Ofsted during our first inspection in May 2018.

We have an exemplary reputation for excellence in every aspect of school life. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

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 Eden Boys' School, Birmingham

School type
Free School, Muslim, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
615 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
0330 313 9800

Eden Boys’ School, Birmingham is a 700 place 11-18 Muslim faith-based secondary school, which opened in September 2015. The school welcomes applications from pupils of all faiths and none. Like all Star schools, it has “Leadership” as a specialism.

Eden Boys’ School, Birmingham was graded as “Outstanding” in all areas by Ofsted during its first inspection in May 2018.

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