Assistant Headteacher

What Can Vantage Offer You?

• A secure and reliable public sector career, in diverse and inclusive schools with opportunities for progression across our three regional hubs.
• A strong focus on staff well-being, through our employee package, with a full complement of health-related services to support you in your role.
• Access to comprehensive Vantage Plus employee benefits, designed by staff, for staff, including an annual flexi wellbeing day and medical cash plans.
• A robust, tailored CPD programme, further enhanced by our trust training bursary which all staff can apply to.
• Opportunities for career progression and secondment across Vantage Academy Trust’s nine primary schools, one secondary school and local partners.
• Friendly, committed and highly skilled colleagues and leadership, dedicated to our mission, vision and values.
• The opportunity to share views and feedback with leadership through our extensive governance framework and staff voice surveys.

At Vantage CE Academies Trust, we are very proud of our values-led ethos:

•  Fostering a culture of professional development
•  Developing centres of excellence
• Encouraging our individual spiritual journeys
• Developing future and aspirational thinking
• Celebrating individual distinctiveness and our particular vocation to the least advantaged
• Encouraging curiosity
• Refusing to set a limit on what is possible for ourselves, for one another, and for our community of schools.

What do I need to bring to the role?

•  Will hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Will be an excellent classroom practitioner with high expectations of children's achievements, attainment and behaviour.
• Will be able to motivate, inspire and co-operate with their colleagues and children.
• Will support the Leadership Team in implementing the vision of the school
• Is reflective, willing to embrace new ideas and take risks in the pursuit of excellence.
• Is an adaptable and resilient professional
• Have bags of personality and enthusiasm
• Be highly motivated, with a can-do-attitude
• Love working with and helping children to achieve their goals

 

We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here.

This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.

We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation