Headteacher
The Blue Coat School
Liverpool
- New
- Salary:
- Group 7 (ISR subject to negotiation)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for Spring Term 2025
- Apply by:
- 16 September 2024
Job overview
Salary: Group 7 (ISR subject to negotiation)
Required for Spring Term 2025
The Governing Board of Trustees of The Blue Coat School are seeking to appoint a dynamic and experienced school leader who has a clear vision for secondary education and leading a successful and positive school.
The successful candidate:
- Will lead, motivate and manage school staff to an ethos of continuous improvement and high performance ensuring that all students achieve their potential
- Will develop and promote positive partnerships with all stakeholders including staff; parents/carers; governors, local and national partners as well as the wider community
- Will be the Accounting Officer for the Academy and will undertake the role and responsibilities in accordance with the guidelines set by the Secretary of State and detailed in the most current Academies Handbook
Candidates are asked to complete the application form which is available on the school website, which also includes the recruitment pack and submit a typed letter of no more than 2,000 words which addresses the person specification requirements.
https://www.bluecoatschoolliverpool.org.uk/news/?pid=3&nid=2
Please ensure both the application form and letter are in Microsoft word format and submit to michele.mckittrick@si.liverpool.gov.uk by the closing date of 9am on Monday 16th September 2024.
All applications will be acknowledged on receipt.
The Blue Coat School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all those working at the school to share this commitment.
The school is required under law and guidance to check the criminal background of all employees. Decisions to appoint will be subject to consideration of an Enhanced Disclosure, including a Barred List check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. Because of the nature of the work for which you are applying, this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020).
The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance on whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Successful applicants will be required to complete a confidential medical questionnaire and may be required to undergo a medical examination.
The school may carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore with you at interview.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 16th September 2024
Attached documents
About The Blue Coat School
The Blue Coat School was founded in 1708. Whilst we are very conscious of our long and proud traditions, we are also conscious of preparing our students for life in the twenty-first century. When Bryan Blundell and the Rev. Robert Stythe founded the Blue Coat Hospital and School in the eighteenth century they could never have imagined that through information and communication techniques we would be capable of making known the name of the School to a worldwide audience.
The Blue Coat admits boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 18. Examination success rates are among the best in the country at both GCSE and A Level. The majority of students go on to university and in the last five years 40 students have won places at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
However, we believe that examination results are only part of the Blue Coat traditions. We believe that this School should prepare students to be valued and worthy members of their community. That tradition is summed up as follows:
"Non sibi sed omnibus"
We believe that The Blue Coat School is a learning community committed to academic excellence and guided by principles of justice and compassion. We aim to foster intellectual, physical, moral, cultural and spiritual development. We expect everyone to demonstrate qualities of courtesy, honesty, diligence and enterprise. We believe education to be an undertaking of supreme importance, enabling all to become responsible citizens and active participants and leaders in the wider community. That tradition is summed up in the School's motto:
"Not for oneself, but for all"
We aim to prepare all students to be good, useful, productive citizens:
* by maintaining high expectations.
* by offering a variety of experiences.
* by encouraging students to be lifelong learners.
* by providing a supportive pastoral and careers system.
* by offering students an interactive experience with the world beyond education.
We aim to achieve the highest quality teaching and learning:
* by re-recognising the needs and talents of every individual.
* by encouraging every student to achieve his/her potential.
* by developing positive attitudes to learning, to work and to study.
* by maximising student achievement through the effective use of teaching and learning facilities.
* by continuing to improve the learning and social environment.
* by developing information and communication technologies as strategies for learning.
We aim to ensure effective involvement by all partners in the school's life:
* by maximising opportunities for involvement in home-school partnership to support student achievement.
* by developing opportunities for governor training.
* by ensuring the school meets the needs of its community.
* by providing opportunities for continuous professional development for all staff.
We aim to foster the values of responsible citizenship in a democratic society:
* by providing opportunities to exercise responsibility and leadership.
* by making students aware of and encouraging them to form views on a range of political, social, moral and spiritual issues.
* by encouraging students to understand and tolerate the views of others.
* by encouraging mutually supportive relationships amongst all members of the school community.
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