The Role

Assistant Headteacher - Curriculum, Teaching & Learning and Staff Development (for Easter or September 2025).

Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent is one of the City’s most successful schools.  We have just achieved our best ever Progress 8 score that puts us in the top third of all schools nationally, with some of our subjects in the top 3%.  

However, we have a relentless determination to be even better.  

You can play a major part in our continued improvement by joining us in our newly created role as Assistant Headteacher Curriculum, Teaching & Learning and Staff Development.  As one of the fastest growing schools in Stoke-on-Trent we are expanding our leadership team.  We are looking for someone who shares our values, wants to have a positive and lasting impact, and can deliver meaningful improvement in a school that is already excellent.  

You will, fundamentally, be someone who is passionate about high standards and providing the very best to our exceptional young people.  You will have autonomy over your remit while working with, and being supported by, a highly experienced team of senior leaders.  

If you are a highly successful middle leader, who can point to demonstrable evidence of impact - a three year rising trend in student outcomes as a middle leader, for example - and you’re ready to take the next step, come and join a forward thinking and ambitious academy.  

We will offer you the opportunities to develop your career so that you are ready to apply for headship within five years if that is what you are looking to do.  

Prospective candidates are invited to attend one of our information sessions, virtually, on the following dates:

Friday 15th November at 4:00pm

Monday 18th November at 8:00am

To register your interest in attending, please email kym.hollinshead@coopacademies.co.uk.

For an informal discussion about this role, please email shane.richardson@coopacademies.  Visits to the Academy can be arranged upon request.

To apply for the role you should write a supporting statement in which you outline the following:

• Your impact in your roles to date
• Your vision for this role
• What you hope to have achieved within three years

The deadline for applications is: Monday 2nd December 2024 at 9:00am.

Interviews will take place on 9th and 10th December (for shortlisted candidates).

All our values are based upon the values of the Co-op Group, which will inform our behaviours.

Self-help: We do not expect to be spoon fed – we will try to do things for ourselves in the right way and at the right time.

Self-responsibility: Everyone should act in a responsible way around the academy site and in the local community. We take responsibility for our own learning; we want to become independent learners.

Equality: We are proud to be part of a very multicultural academy, with students from all over the world; it is important that we treat each other with respect and accept that others may be different from ourselves. We should all have equal chances to succeed.

Equity: We want to look for the best in each other. Rewarding others fairly to encourage all types of achievement.

Democracy: We will contribute our ideas to make the academy a success.

Solidarity: We can achieve more by working together, rather than as individuals.

Our Values

Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are embedded in everything that we do within our Academy - We strive to demonstrate the following ethical values in everything we do - they are our ‘Ways of Being’:

Succeed together

Do what matters most

Be yourself, always

Show you care

So, if you believe in our values, we would love to hear from you! 

We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:

Benefits include:

Our employee benefits package includes:

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• You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores. 
• Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
• Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, Super Break and many more!
• Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)
• Co-op Funeralcare benefit
• Season ticket and rental deposit loans

And More! 

For more information about the Co-op Academies Trust, please visit: www.coopacademies.co.uk

The Trust is also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships.

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