School Lead - Kassim Darwish Grammar School for Boys

We are still looking for an experienced and qualified School Lead to support the Executive Headteacher from 18 March 2024 (negotiable), as part of the Senior Leadership Team of the School, in providing professional leadership at KDGB, securing success and improvement within our Kassim Darwish (KD) Grammar School for Boys (KDGB), leading to high quality, accessible and inclusive education for all students and improved standards of learning and achievement.

KDGB is a small grammar school which has been providing faith-based education combined with the national curriculum for over two decades. Its inspection reports, as part of Independent Schools Association, have been good to excellent. It is one of three schools being operated by Manchester Islamic Educational Trust. Faith based ethos permeates all activities and behaviour within the school and is reflected in the friendly and family oriented atmosphere between staff members. Should you be interested in joining and being part of this friendly, dynamic and fast developing school then please send your application to the address given. Please download the application form from the school website. The application once completed should be sent by email to admin@miet.uk or by post to the Trust Office, Hartley Hall, Alexandra Road South, Manchester M16 8NH, together with their personal statement and any other document to support their application.

Deadline of this application: 26 February 2024 10am 

Please note: if you have not been contacted regarding an interview within two weeks of the closing date, please take it that unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.

Safeguarding Recruitment Statement:

We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The successful candidate must be willing to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), including checks with past employers. 

Please note that since the new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 came, we also have to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who confirm they will attend an interview. 

All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant Passport / work permit where necessary. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, the Trust will also require additional information and a Certificate of Good Conduct /Police Clearance from the country abroad you worked/ stayed at, in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of all the necessary pre-employment checks and receipt of satisfactory references. 

This post will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 [exceptions] Order 1975 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 about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found in ‘Changes to the Criminal Records System November 2020.docx Page 2’ on the Ministry of Justice Website and the websites of charities NACRO and UNLOCK.

At the shortlisting stage candidates will be required to complete a self- declaration form regarding their criminal record (unless ‘protected’) and will also be required to submit any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Any such information will be treated in strictest confidence and used only in consideration of the suitability of the post. Criminal convictions will not automatically exclude you from being considered unless they fall within the threshold of being relevant and unsuitability, and will be considered on a case by case basis or as defined by the Department for Education.    

It is an offence to apply for a post engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from working with children.

We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.

Please note we will only contact shortlisted applicants.