Assistant Headteacher of Curriculum - Vocational Pathway

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ‘Assistant Head – Curriculum’ with responsibility for the College’s Vocational Pathway.

The successful candidate will lead a teaching and teaching support team which delivers a post-16 curriculum offer to young adults with a range of SEND. You will lead a curriculum offer delivering GCSE and NCFE courses in addition to the College’s Step-Up RARPA programme in additional to a broad enrichment and tutorial offer. You will be responsible for ensuring excellent standards of teaching and learning. You will be responsible for ensuring the young people are supported in their learning journeys including oversight of access to the college therapy offer. You will also take a key role in the identification and creation of new curriculum opportunities to prepare your learners for a successful transition into adulthood be that employment, volunteering, mainstream FE, HE or other training programmes. You will be responsible for supporting the high quality and expansion of the College’s Work Placement and Supported Internship opportunities and ensuring an innovative, outward facing approach to continual development of the vocational curriculum offer. You will teach for 1-2 days per week. The ability to teach English and/or Maths would be desirable but is not a requirement of the post.

You will be involved in designing and delivering a curriculum that challenges and develops the right knowledge, skills and behaviours our learners need to enable them to progress with their chosen pathways into adulthood. You will be responsible for ensuring the right personalised curriculum offer for each young person working closely with the young person, their parents/carers, teaching and support staff and external stakeholders to ensure each young person is reaching their individual potential.

You will need to be organised, innovative, a strong performance manager, have a proven record of achieving outcomes utilising excellent communication skills and have the drive to further develop a Pathway offer that is innovative, forward-looking and aspirational in every way. You will bring to the role skills and experience that could have been gained in a General FE, mainstream secondary, specialist school or specialist post-16 setting.

You will need to bring to this role a personal drive and creative ambition for the College and for our learners. We are a ‘Good’ College with Outstanding judgements in Behaviour and Attitudes and Personal Development. We have our sights firmly set on achieving ‘Outstanding’ in all areas.

If you are passionate about using your knowledge and skills to develop and lead a team ensuring excellent teaching and learning and have a strong track record of delivering outstanding outcomes for young people preparing for adulthood, then this is the ideal job for you!

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.

• Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participating in peer reviews.
• Access to a suite of online courses.
• Placement projects within our family of schools.

Newfriars College aim is to transform the lives of young people through partnership, collaboration, enterprise and innovation. Our vision is to maximise opportunities within the community and provide a breadth and richness of experience that enables all our learners to reach their full potential and be part of an inclusive society. Newfriars College is an Independent Specialist Day College in North Staffordshire dedicated to supporting young people with learning difficulties and disabilities aged 16–25.

We provide specialist resources and facilities for all our learners and have an excellent support network within the local area. This provides the college with many opportunities including transition routes into the wider community, employment and supported work experience, independent living and specialist support from highly skilled multi-agency professionals and therapists. Learning in the community and vocational education is extremely important and we are eager to successfully prepare our young peoples for adulthood.

Our College works in partnership with Shaw Education Trust who believe that “every young person can achieve great things, whatever their abilities and whatever their background”.