Assistant Headteacher - Safeguarding

Position: Assistant Headteacher

Salary: L11 - 15 

Start date: January 2025

Deadline: Wednesday 25th September 2024 at 9.00 a.m.

We have an opportunity for a talented and ambitious leader to join our Strategic Leadership Team as Assistant Headteacher – Safeguarding.   

Holly Lodge School is a comprehensive 11-19 school and sixth form serving the diverse community of Smethwick, West Midlands. Our core values are Ambition, Opportunity and Community: we believe that every child, regardless of their background or starting point, is entitled to a world-class education in the best that has been thought, said and made, and that they should be equipped for joining the great conversations of humankind, shaping the future and living truly rewarding and meaningful lives. We believe in the power of expertly developed, subject specialist curriculum, alongside research-informed teaching approaches, high expectations for behaviour, and excellent pastoral care in achieving this vision. We are ambitious for the experience of our staff as well as our students: in terms of well-being, professional development and career progression. We believe that the key to staff wellbeing is sensible workload and a positive professional culture, and we place these at the heart of everything we do.

The successful candidate will be:

·        A strategic thinker, driven by moral purpose and a passion for learning

·        Able to demonstrate a track record of excellent leadership with impact

·        A strong communicator, enthusiastic and relentlessly optimistic in their approach

·        An innovative team player with a passion for teaching and an ability to bring this passion to life in the classroom and around our school

·        Able to demonstrate a strong knowledge of how to improve key components of Safeguarding, Culture and Ethos, with concrete examples of impact

·        Knowledgeable and experience of safeguarding, and demonstrate a passion for managing this excellence across the school community

·        Able to create a culture for safeguarding where their staff and students feel safe and staff understand their responsibility towards this

·        Able to recognise the value of learning beyond the classroom and actively help shape students by enhancing the understanding of the world we live in, value enrichment opportunities and be passionate about delivering a high quality extra-curricular programme 

If you have a passion for education, and you share our values, please provide a letter expressing your interest in the role (Maximum of two sides of A4 paper). Applicants are welcome to discuss the position further with senior colleagues at the school, via: Hls_hr@holly-lodge.org

Completed applications should be sent to Hls_hr@holly-lodge.org by, Wednesday 25th September 2024, 9am. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 2nd October 2024.

At Holly Lodge we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks and a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the standards which flows from our vision and values.

The role is covered by part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. Holly Lodge supports Equal Opportunities Employment.