Company Description

Catch22 is a social business, a not for profit business with a social mission. For over 200 years we have designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. Our 1600 colleagues work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting 44,000 individuals from cradle to career. Today we deliver alternative education, apprenticeships and employability programmes, justice and rehabilitation services (in prisons and in the community), gangs intervention work, emotional wellbeing and substance misuse, and children’s social care programmes.

Catch22 include is an alternative education provider for young people, over 700 vulnerable young people with challenging behaviours are supported through independent alternative education schools or via a range of tailored support programmes delivered in school or off-site. Include schools provide an alternative to mainstream schooling, whereby multiple barriers to learning have previously affected engagement and access to education.

Catch22 Include Wales is registered as a Special Independent School. It provides full-time, alternative education for young people who have been excluded from their previous school or pupil referral unit, or who need additional support to what is offered by a mainstream setting.

Job Description

Join us as within our school as an Assistant Headteacher.

Catch22 Include schools provide an alternative to mainstream schooling for young people age 4-18 where multiple barriers to learning have previously affected engagement and access to education.

This role would require you:

• To provide effective leadership and management on a specific site for a registered school, delivering a safe and secure education provision for students with complex needs and behaviours.
• To be the driver in behaviour management and student support for complex and vulnerable studentsVale School (Ebbw Vale is a new site, opening in September 2023) for pupils aged 4 to 11 years old. As an Assistant Headteacher you will work, and provide effective leadership and management, in our alternative education provision.

Main duties and accountabilities:

• Act as role model; champion Catch22 and the Education directorate’s vision and values.
• Be the lead for the development of the local self-assessment report with subsequent improvement planning and contribute to the overall quality improvement process of the school.
• Manage and analyse performance data and report to Head Teacher. Take appropriate actions to address areas of underperformance.
• Support the Annual Review Process within your site to ensure Catch22 fulfils its legal duty and requirements to meet needs of learners.
• Review the provision of all pupils regularly to ensure that Catch22 offer the correct support and interventions for all pupils; this includes reviewing the quality and impact of the provision.
• Create an inspirational learning environment with high expectations of learner achievement, success and progression.

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Qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following qualifications, experience and knowledge:

• A recognised higher qualification with significant experienced of teaching and planning with a willingness to work towards QTS.
• A clear understanding of the local, regional, and national environment and the policies and legal requirements which impact on a school safer recruitment, safeguarding and health and safety.
• Sound understanding of relevant qualifications frameworks and of a range of teaching and learning strategies.
• Experience of working with children that struggle in mainstream education including those with ACEs, complex, high behaviour and additional learning needs.
• Experience of quality assurance and leading and managing teams to improve performance and deliver outstanding teaching and learning.

Additional Information

Salary: £41,600-£52,000 depending on experience

Contract: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per annum, permanent

Location: Ebbw Vale

Catch22 are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people / vulnerable adults and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment

This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As with all posts, the successful applicant will be required to provide proof of their right to work in the UK and, if they have lived abroad, overseas police clearance/s will need to be sought.

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Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.