Director of Learning

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City Council Full time

Start date 1 September 2024

Hours 32.5

Waverley School

Yardley Green Road

Bordesley Green

Birmingham

B9 5QA

Contact email

Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. WEF has over 1900 students on roll across the trust. It develops, brokers and delivers a range of services which support learning and leadership and management and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Waverley School is an all through school for students aged 4 to 19. It also has a Resource Base for students with cognition and learning difficulties. In its recent Ofsted inspection in September 2021, Waverley School was graded as a 'Good' School.

The secondary phase of Waverley School has 1174 students including those in the Sixth Form. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training and a strong staff team that are committed to the learning and development of all our students.

Our core values of Humanity, Equality, Aspiration and Respect support our vision to create a learning community where we work together to achieve excellence in everything we do. "Pupils have a strong understanding of diversity, respect and tolerance, including for different family lifestyles" – Ofsted 2021.

We are now looking to appoint new Director of Learning for English Department which has a strong teaching team in-place and we are looking for inspirational and dynamic leader to drive forward our English Faculty. We believe that this role will appeal to ambitious, talented teachers and leaders who can bring inspirational leadership to our Middle Leadership Team and contribute towards the school improvement process.

We are looking for someone who will:

  • promote and deliver excellent standards of teaching and learning
  • is a strategic thinker and will lead to department from good to great
  • foster positive relationships with students, staff, parents and the local community

    It is a very exciting time to join Waverley School and applications are invited from those who are committed to wanting the best for children and are ambitious to develop their careers as teachers and leaders. You will need to provide evidence of an outstanding 'track record' to date and clearly demonstrate how you meet the demands of the job description. You will need to be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people, with the ability to inspire and motivate staff and students.

    Please download an application pack

    Completed applications should be sent to

    We welcome informal visits to the school where tours will be undertaken by a senior member of staff.

    For further details or to arrange an informal visit please call our HR team on

    Applications received after the closing date and time will not be considered.

    If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.



    This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.

    This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

    This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.

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