Assistant Headteacher - Personal Development and Careers

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Job Title:       Assistant Headteacher - Personal Development and Careers

Location:    Westbourne School, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

Salary:      Up to £50,000 per annum Depending upon experience

Hours:      37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm 

Contract:   Permanent, Term Time only

UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.

As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Assistant Headteacher Personal Development to join our close-knit team at Westbourne School located in Sutton-in-Ashfield.

About the role

The Assistant Headteacher Personal Development has strategic leadership and implementation oversight of Personal Development across Key stage 2 to 5. The post holder has the responsibility to drive, lead, and quality assure the impact of staff work on Careers, Enrichment and PSHE. The post holder works in collaboration with the wider senior leadership team, to ensure an excellent pastoral provision across all subjects and year groups, where every pupil enjoys learning and is supported to be highly successful

Key Responsibilities:

• To assist the Headteacher in ensuring the achievement of the highest possible educational standards and attainment, through design and delivery of an outstanding, comprehensive and engaging personal development programme across the school.
• This will be achieved through the strategic and operational leadership of the core areas of:
• Careers and Work Experience
• Enrichment, Trips and Visits
• PSHE
• Pupil Voice
• Staff training on personal development
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• As a senior leader, modelling outstanding practice in the classroom is paramount to the role.
• Visible leadership through school duties, behaviours support, stakeholder engagement 

We are looking for a colleague who:

• Is positive and passionate about changing lives for the better
• Has a passion for delivering an excellent personal development provision to students with SEN across Years 5 to 12.
• Can motivate and coach staff to support them in pursuing outstanding practice
• Thinks creatively and looks for ways to engage learners of all levels

About the school

Westbourne School caters for pupils aged 11-18 and we are growing to 85 pupils across two sites. You will be responsible for planning and delivering various subjects across the curriculum. Differentiation and individualised learning strategies are vital skills required to meet the needs of all our pupils who will have had varying degrees of success in their educational lives.

We are part of Acorn Education and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career. Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.

Why join Acorn Education? 

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

*You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 

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