Executive Principal
Waverley School
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- L37 – L43
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 11 April 2024
Job overview
WAVERLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION TRUST
Waverley School
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
Tel: 0121 566 6600
Executive Principal
L37 – L43
To start September 2024
Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. It develops, brokers and delivers a range of services which support learning, leadership and management and improve outcomes for children and young people.
Waverley School is an all through school for pupils aged 4-19. It also has a resource base for pupils with cognition and learning difficulties. Waverley Studio College is a specialist academy catering for 14 – 19 year old pupils, which offers both academic and vocational qualifications. WEF has over 1900 pupils. Within the trust, we aim to create an environment which allows everyone to develop mutual respect for each other and a respect for learning.
This is an exciting time to join WEF. We continue to be over-subscribed and popular within the local community. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training, and a strong staff team committed to the learning and development of all our pupils. Through our school improvement plans the schools continue to develop, and we expect to see good results again this summer.
Following the retirement of the current Executive Principal, the Board of Trustees are looking to appoint a highly motivated and committed individual as the new Executive Principal of the trust.
The Executive Principal will work closely with the Board of Trustees and will have responsibility for the leadership and management of both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. These responsibilities include the strategic development of the schools and their relationship with the local community, as well as their complex day-to-day operation through our senior leaders and staff team.
The ideal candidate will share our determination to continue to provide an outstanding education for our young people without exception or bias. They
will be enthusiastic, motivated and have a proven track record of effective leadership. They will need to be high achieving and self-motivating, and capable of playing a major role in further developing teaching and learning within the trust. The Executive Principal role requires strong people management skills, empathy and excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
The successful candidate will need to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online checks in line with ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion. Only applications submitted on the application form will be accepted.
Waverley Education Foundation is committed to the protection and safety of its pupils.
Informal visits to Waverley Education Foundation are warmly welcomed. Please contact our HR department on 0121 566 6607 to arrange.
The closing date for applications is 10.00am on Thursday 11 April 2024.
If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Attached documents
About Waverley School
- Waverley School
- 311 Yardley Green Road, Bordesley Green, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B9 5QA
- United Kingdom
Waverley School is a co-educational, all-through school located in Birmingham, West Midlands. It has around 1800 pupils across its primary, secondary and sixth-form departments. The school is part of the Waverley Education Foundation, a multi-academy trust that also operates the local Waverley Studio College.
Waverley School became an all-through school in 2012 and moved to a new site in 2013. It is proud of its diverse student intake.
Values and vision
Waverley School values learning through diversity. Tolerance and acceptance play a huge part in its ethos, with students encouraged to show respect for other faiths and belief systems. The social development of pupils is considered to be of paramount importance to best prepare them for adulthood.
Ofsted report
"Senior leadership is, once again, stable. It is increasingly effective. As a result, the quality of teaching has recovered and pupils' outcomes are good and improving further."
"Teaching is effective. It is particularly strong in the early years, primary phase and sixth form."
"Children get off to an exceptional start in early years. They settle very well into school life and make strong progress due to the effective teaching in this well-led provision."
The sixth form is effective. Almost all students achieve the qualifications they need to go on to their chosen higher education courses."
There is strict accountability between governors, trustees and the executive headteacher."
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