Head of English
Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent
- New
- Salary:
- L10-L14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter or Summer Term 2025 by negotiation
- Apply by:
- 13 December 2024
Job overview
The Role
Head of English (for Easter or Summer Term 2025 by negotiation)
A rare opportunity has arisen to join our truly exceptional English department.
In 2024, our English department achieved:
- a Progress 8 score of 0.9
- a P8 score of 0.45 for our PP students
- a place in the top 3% of schools nationally.
Our current Head of English, like her predecessor before, has been promoted to Assistant Headship. We’re now looking for our next Head of English to build on the exceptional success of the last few years.
As proud as we are of what has been achieved, English is at the beginning of its journey and we are confident that with the right leader, we can ascend new heights and deliver even more exceptional outcomes for our wonderful students.
As impressive as our team is, there is no alchemy or gimmicks: our success is built on an incredible clarity about how to deliver a truly exceptional education in English. Our team are experts at doing the things that make the greatest difference. They inspire our students through the highest quality teaching, well targeted support and intervention, and an unshakeable conviction that every student can achieve the very best outcomes.
We are now looking for someone to come and take on the leadership of our impressive team of professionals and who can ensure we deliver a truly exceptional quality of education.
You will be the right fit for the role if you:
- have the subject and pedagogical knowledge and vision to match our ambition to scale new heights;
- can point to experience working as part of, or leading, a high-performing team;
- have a relentless and uncompromising belief in the highest standards as the basis for exceptional performance.
We will give you all of the support you need to be successful in the role. It is our working assumption that the post-holder, like their predecessors, will enjoy significant success leading to promotion to Assistant Headteacher within three years if that is what you are looking for.
There is an opportunity for interested candidates to join a virtual information session to find out more on the following dates:
Monday 25th November at 8:00am
Thursday 28th November at 3:45pm
Please contact kym.hollinshead@coopacademies.co.uk to book a place.
Candidates who have any other questions about the role should contact the Headteacher, Shane Richardson, at shane.richardson@coopacademies.co.uk.
To apply for the role you should write a supporting statement in which you outline the following:
- Your impact in your roles to date
- Your vision for this role
- What you hope to have achieved within three years
The deadline for applications is: Friday 13th December 2024 at 9:00am.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 18th December 2024.
HOW TO APPLY
We are now only accepting applications through FaceEd. Please apply online via
our vacancy website https://www.stokeontrent.coopacademies.co.uk/vacancies
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 18th December.
All our values are based upon the values of the Co-op Group, which will inform our behaviours.
Self-help: We do not expect to be spoon fed – we will try to do things for ourselves in the right way and at the right time.
Self-responsibility: Everyone should act in a responsible way around the academy site and in the local community. We take responsibility for our own learning; we want to become independent learners.
Equality: We are proud to be part of a very multicultural academy, with students from all over the world; it is important that we treat each other with respect and accept that others may be different from ourselves. We should all have equal chances to succeed.
Equity: We want to look for the best in each other. Rewarding others fairly to encourage all types of achievement.
Democracy: We will contribute our ideas to make the academy a success.
Solidarity: We can achieve more by working together, rather than as individuals.
Our Values
Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are embedded in everything that we do within our Academy - We strive to demonstrate the following ethical values in everything we do - they are our ‘Ways of Being’:
Succeed together
Do what matters most
Be yourself, always
Show you care
So, if you believe in our values, we would love to hear from you!
We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:
Benefits include:
Our employee benefits package includes:
- You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores.
- Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
- Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more!
- Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)
- Co-op Funeralcare benefit
- Season ticket and rental deposit loans
And More!
For more information about the Co-op Academies Trust, please visit: www.coopacademies.co.uk
The Trust is also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships.
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About Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent
- Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent
- Westport Road, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
- Staffordshire
- ST6 4LD
- United Kingdom
Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent has an established reputation as one of the city’s most successful high schools. Over a decade since becoming a sponsored academy, working in one of the most progressive and forward-thinking Trusts, our students have continued to achieve some of the very best educational outcomes in the country. Indeed, in many subjects, our students make progress that puts them in the top 10% nationally. Our staff and students benefit from state of the art facilities, first opened in September 2012, and currently undergoing further development and expansions following an £8m investment. The Academy is routinely over-subscribed and ever more parents want their children to benefit from the educational offer, and wider opportunities, that we provide.
We are student focused and standards driven. Our vision is underpinned by a fundamental belief in the transformative power of the highest standards. Outcomes really matter because they change children’s lives. However, we also recognise that those outcomes are the product of lots of different components: a broad curriculum; exceptional teaching; a comprehensive extra-curricular offer that broadens opportunities; and the very highest quality pastoral care. We care about the children that we see every day because we care about the adults they will become. Our decision making, therefore, puts young people at the heart of what we do.
We are incredibly proud to serve a community that is diverse. Our Academy welcomes everyone and we build our culture on the values of respect and tolerance. Everyone has something to contribute at our Academy and we know that we are richer for our diversity.
We are looking for colleagues who want to make a positive difference to the lives of the children with whom they work. We work in a context in which poverty and deprivation are daily challenges in the lives of the families and young people we serve. We want to work with colleagues who believe, as we do, that education is the tool by which the challenges of poverty can be overcome. Leaders have a proactive approach to tackling the challenges faced by school staff: eradicating excessive workload; creating greater opportunities for flexibility; and doing all that we can to create a sense of common purpose.
We were delighted that Ofsted recognised that our Academy continues to be ‘good’ when they visited in May 2023. Our mission now is to be a truly exceptional Academy for the simple reason that our students and families deserve only the very best.
The Academy is part of the Co-op Academies Trust (CAT), a multi-academy trust with academies across the north west and midlands. Our academies are arranged into three regions: Stoke, Staffordshire and Merseyside; Manchester; and West Yorkshire.
Our offer is simple but compelling:
- The opportunity to work in one of the city’s most successful academies where our teachers and staff make a real difference to students’ lives and futures.
- Be part of an academy and a MAT that has a reputation locally and nationally for its ethical values.
- Join a MAT that lives its co-operative values by creating opportunities for collaboration and cross-academy working to help everyone achieve their professional and personal goals.
- Work in an academy that puts reducing staff workload, focusing on wellbeing, and increasing flexibility for its employees, at the forefront because this means our young people benefit from a highly motivated team of staff.
- The Co-op Academies Trust benefits package.
To find out more about who we are and our academy please visit our website: https://www.stokeontrent.coopacademies.co.uk/
To find out more about our Trust please visit the CAT website:https://www.coopacademies.co.uk
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