About Us Rushcliffe Spencer Academy is a highly successful 11-18 comprehensive school located in West Bridgford, Nottingham. Rushcliffe has been judged outstanding in all areas by Ofsted and, in 2021, was reaccredited as a World Class School for the second time. We require a positive, committed and empathetic individual to join our pastoral support team as an Assistant Head of Year (Non-Teaching). The successful applicant will support one of our five heads of year (teachers), working alongside four other assistant heads of year and our attendance officer in our Pupil Support Unit. The role requires you to collaborate with staff across the school. The successful applicant will be someone who communicates well and can build excellent relationships with pupils, colleagues and parents in order to provide the best support possible for our young people. The role is wide and varied and the successful applicant will have the opportunity to use their knowledge and skills to be creative and innovative in identifying and providing ways to support their year group. Rushcliffe is a popular and successful school in a pleasant, suburban area of Nottingham. It has a strong tradition of pastoral care, academic success and extra-curricular enrichment. We are committed to providing high quality training and development opportunities for all staff. You will be provided with regular opportunities to work in partnership with others to develop your own practice and skills. SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence. We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world. Mission Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people. Vision Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children. We Believe All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development. Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership. We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more. Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff. If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact recruitmentrushcliffespencer.org.uk The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview. Closing date for applications: Sunday 5 January 2025 Interviews will take place on: tbc Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date. How To Apply Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘ Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘ Sign In’. Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page. We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656 Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity). The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics. 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