Job Description
Job Start Date:1 January 2025 Contact Email:s.galsinh@allenscn.bham.sch.uk
The Birmingham Federation of Maintained Nursery Schools consists of nine Maintained Nursery Schools, each with individual personalities, spread across South and Central Birmingham. We are driven by our goal to secure excellent, responsive and creative early education for all children. Our schools offer high quality and inclusive early learning which, alongside the other Maintained Nursery Schools in the city, provide an important role in the development of all Birmingham's young children.
Our Governing Board is now seeking to appoint a visionary and committed early years leader to take Executive Headship responsibility for a cluster of 2 OFSTED outstanding Nursery Schools. This is of interest to current headteachers at nursery schools, deputy headteachers in nursery or primary schools, or leaders responsible for early years in primary schools with at least 2 years of experience. Both nursery schools work with child centred practice at the heart of all provision. We pride ourselves on being flexible and facing every new challenge head on so to continue in offering each child and family what is best for them. We provide a safe and secure environment, and the early years provision we offer makes a huge difference to the children and families we work with.
We are looking for someone with innovation, inspiration and impact.
We can offer you:
- the opportunity to make significant contributions to the development, educational and life chances of children and families in our schools
- the support and partnership of highly committed SLT, governors and parents
- a commitment to ongoing high quality professional development
- a visionary approach to shaping the landscape of inclusive early years education
You will offer us:
- inspirational, strategic leadership
- a positive and creative approach to further enhance our high quality, inclusive provision
- skills to build positive relationship with our staff team, communities, and partners
- knowledge and expertise in managing budgets and generating new income sources
- commitment to ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding, throughout our school communities
A visit to the schools is encouraged and a number of dates are set out in the candidate pack. An informal conversation with the Chair of Governors (Sean Delaney) is also possible; he can be contacted vias.delaney@crec.co.uk
Shortlisting will take place w/c 10June and interviews are scheduled for 24June 2024.
Ourwebsitecan offer more information about us and the federation schools.
Please download an application packandApply Online
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; 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 as part of due diligence on all short-listed 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. Please note that offline application forms will not be considered - please submit an online application via the link above.