Head Of Middle School

Vacancy for Head of Middle School (Year 9 and 10)

Required September 2024

MPR/UPR £30,000 - £46,525 (+ TL2c £7,847) pay award pending

Kinver High School and Sixth Form is seeking to appoint an inspirational and ambitious Head of Middle School to join our ‘warm and welcoming school’ where ‘pupils behave well in lessons’ and ‘are polite and courteous’ (Ofsted Dec 21).

The ideal candidate will share our student-centered values and be an engaging and proactive teacher with a passion for lifelong learning. Whilst the position is open to all subject specialisms, we would strongly welcome applications from candidates of PE, DT and Humanities subject specialisms You must firmly believe and be driven to ensure that every student regardless of starting point, can achieve success, enjoy school, and be engaged with wider school life, to become the best that they can be.

The Inclusion Team are a well-resourced and vital component of our school who are highly regarded and valued both by our students and their families and carers. We are proud of our inclusive reputation. As Head of Middle School, you will take the strategic leadership of Year 9 and 10 work closely with our Assistant Headteacher of Personal Development in our CEIAG programme. In your role you will be supported by a non-teaching Year Manager for Year 9 and 10 and the schools wider Inclusion Team.

We are a highly successful and increasingly popular oversubscribed 11-18 comprehensive school of 720 students, situated in the picturesque village location of Kinver on the western fringe of the West Midlands. We consistently achieve above national outcomes at KS4 and have an ALPs score of a 2. The successful candidate will build on current developments within the school, Trust and nationally, to continue to improve outcomes and raise aspirations for all students. The school has undergone rapid growth in recent years due to its popularity, moving form a 4-form entry in Year 7 to 6-form entry. The school operates its own designated school coach transport service, which means that our intake spans 5 local authorities and our parents and students choose to come to us, making Kinver the non-selective ‘selective’ school.

We are sure that once you visit us and meet our students, you’ll find that we are the school for you and your career journey, our CPD through school and in partnership with Invictus is exemplary.

We would strongly encourage you to get in touch and arrange a visit. We want the very best teachers for our students and look forward finding out if you are that person.

Please contact the Headteacher’s Personal Assistant, Mrs L Chamberlain at lchamberlain@invictus.education to arrange a visit or request further details.

Closing Date: Monday 15th April 2024, 9am

Interviews: Thursday 18th April 2024

Previous applicants need not apply.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2023.

This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and 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 on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.

Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance/dbs-filtering-guide

As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.