Head of Humanities

Job description

Darwen Vale High School

Blackburn Road, Darwen

BB3 0AL

**Job Title**: Head of Humanities

**Grade/Salary**: L1 - L10, £47,185 - £58,959 (Depending on experience)

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Contract Terms**: Full Time

**Closing Date**: Monday 18th March 2024

**Required From**: ASAP

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Darwen Vale High School is an exciting, fast-paced workplace. We unashamedly have high standards for our staff and our students.

Due to the internal promotion of our current Head of Faculty to our leadership team we are currently seeking to appoint an inspirational Head of Humanities. Our Humanities Faculty in September 2024 consists of six full time teachers along with the Principal and an Assistant Principal.

**What we will offer you**:

- Support from the Multi Academy Trust (Aldridge Education).
- A clear open-door policy.
- A centralised behaviour system with centralised detentions.
- A strong emphasis on wellbeing with various wellbeing events timetabled in on the school calendar. A large focus on staff voice with an ongoing staff suggestion box and weekly thank you box.
- A school that is very much a hub for the local community.
- Staff socials which have included trip a trip to Aintree races and karaoke in Manchester.
- Access to an Employee Wellbeing Assistant which offers various discounts, access to an app etc.
- An extensive pastoral and safeguarding team with a non-teaching Head of Year and an Assistant Head of Year.
- Regular, up-to-date, research led CPD including the opportunity to undertake a range of NPQs.

Our outcomes for summer 2023 were the strongest that we have ever seen. The school has been on a journey of rapid improvement having moved from a progress score of -1.12 (2017) to -0.15 (2023). We eagerly await our upcoming Ofsted inspection where we can hope to showcase all of the wonderful work that we do here at Vale. There really is no better time to join our school

**About Aldridge Education**:
Darwen Vale High School is a member of the Aldridge Education family of schools, which locally also includes, Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio and Sudell Primary School.

Aldridge Education is a charitable Trust of entrepreneurial community schools and colleges that help young people to reach their potential. We support our schools’ Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at early years, primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of our students.

**Operating Norms**
We believe that the way we operate at all times and with all partners is of paramount importance.

Our agreed operating norms are as follows:

- We are Aldridge Education
- The standard is excellence
- We champion equality
- We’re in the work together
- We behave with integrity
- We lead by example
- We use time well

**References**

**Safeguarding Statement**:
Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Acknowledgement Message**:
If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted. In this case, may we thank you in advance of your interest in this post and Aldridge Education and wish you the very best for the future.
- This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means standard and enhanced DBS checks will now always show all unspent records, including youth conditional cautions, meaning some previously unrecorded details will now be disclosed._

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02719

Date posted
- 15/02/2024

Application closing date
- 18/03/2024

Location
- Darwen Vale High School

Salary
- L1 - L10, £47,185 - £58,959 (Depending on experience)

Package
- Blank

Contractual hours
- Blank

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Schools