Job Information: Create Headteacher

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time 

Working Hours: 37 hours per week 

SGS is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

What SGS can offer you:

• You will become part of the wider SGS family receiving ongoing support for your personal & professional development, which includes a College Course Contribution Voucher of £250 for all staff, 25% tuition discount for immediate family of SGS employees, and up to 75�ediscounts with University of Gloucestershire
• Corporate roles benefit significantly by their access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, with generous employer contributions and the resultant access on retirement, to a secure, flexible and generous pension, accessible from the age of 55
• Academic roles benefit significantly by their access to the Teachers Pension Scheme, with generous employer contributions of over 23%
• A proven commitment to supporting flexible working practices
• Access to ‘My Lifestyle’ discounted shopping benefits, cycle to work scheme and a Technology Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Free car parking at all campuses
• Access to a wide variety of external health and wellbeing resources
• Subsidised onsite catering services

South Gloucestershire & Stroud College has an excellent reputation for delivering further education and work-based programmes in a range of subjects – from business to sport, engineering to media, GCSE’s and A Levels to degree level courses.

Our experienced and passionate staff work hard to help our students achieve their personal challenges and career goals. We are proud of SGS and committed to making the College the best it can be. We are currently working hard to achieve “Outstanding” status after being classified as “Good” in our first inspection.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Headteacher to establish and lead a brand-new educational setting for 14-16-year-old students located within SGS College’s Stroud Campus.   

The setting will offer a core academic curriculum along with a vocation of the learner’s choice, aligning with the vocations offered at the centre. We envisage engaging 14-16 learners who are particularly interested in the creative industries and would benefit from more vocational education as opposed to the standard KS4 curriculum experienced in schools. These learners may currently have become dis-engaged or suffer with anxiety which has led to long-term non-attendance, have mental health concerns, be neuro-diverse or are simply looking for an alternative offer to school.   

Our vision is to create an education environment that inspires you to be your best.  With an aspirational, supportive and flexible curriculum, for 14-16-year-old learners’ needs at its heart, enabling young people to learn skills, gain qualifications, improve confidence, be creative and respectful of their society and the environment to enable progression to the next step in their education.  

 If you share our vision, we would love to hear from you.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Lead curriculum development and innovation, ensuring creativity and the use of appropriate technologies to achieve excellence.
• Contributing to the educational vision, direction and ethos that secures effective teaching and successful learning and achievement by learners, preparing them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Working with the College Principal and the SGS community to translate the vision into agreed objectives and operational plans which promote and sustain improvement.
• Ensuring through day-to-day operational management that all those involved in SGS Create are committed to its aims, motivated to achieve them and involved in meeting long, medium and short-term objectives and targets that secure the success of SGS Create

Beneficial Skills & Qualifications

• Qualified Teacher status
• Degree
• Successful leadership and management experience in school/educational setting
• Knowledge and experience of working with a wide range of support agencies and services

Please apply online by: Thursday 29th December 2022

Expected Interview Date: Friday 6th January 2023

The successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain a satisfactory DBS Enhanced certificate as a requirement of the job.