Assistant Headteacher - Safeguarding & Inclusion

About The Role

Assistant Headteacher - Safeguarding & Inclusion

Reporting to: Deputy Headteacher
Start Date: September 2025
Location: Ark Victoria Academy, Talbot Way, Small Heath, Birmingham, B10 0HJ
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Salary: Ark Leadership Scale, points L10 - L14 (£63,117 - £69,597 per annum)
Subject to increase with 2025/26 pay scales
Closing Date: 15th May 2025 at 11am

About the role

Ark Victoria is seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher for Safeguarding and Inclusion to join our secondary phase leadership team. You will be passionate about creating a safe and inclusive environment for students with the leadership skills to drive positive change. You will take responsibility for the day-to-day management of the school alongside the Executive Principal, Head of School and extended leadership colleagues, maintaining the highest standards of behaviour and attainment.

Our values mean a great deal to us and underpin all that we do, and so it is important that you are strongly aligned to our schools' vision, championing Ark Victoria's pledge of being Ambitious, Resilient and Kind as well as living by the Ark ethos and six pillars that enable us to achieve our mission.

As a member of the senior leadership team, you will also be centrally involved in the overall leadership and management of the academy with particular focus on Safeguarding and Inclusion.

As part of the Ark network, our staff benefit from strong links with the wider network; particularly with the other Ark schools in Birmingham. We harness expertise and build pastoral communities so that our teachers can learn from and collaborate with colleagues. As well as networking with colleagues in other Ark schools, our staff receive high quality training and support.
If you are ready to add further value to our school and to join a brilliant school leadership team, then you will find this job extremely rewarding.

Benefits

Why work for our school?

We value our staff and provide a comprehensive programme of coaching and professional development for all our staff. We use our values and our virtue pathways to shape the way we work and learn together. Hear what our teachers have to say about working at Ark Victoria Academy:

• We take CPD seriously, which is why we offer twice the number of training days as standard
• Our school's 'Wellbeing Wednesdays' are a great hit - get in touch to find out more
• Our staff can take advantage of our on-site fitness suite
• Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering up to £1,000 a year in savings from over 3,000 major retailers
• Interest-free loans of up to £5,000 available for season tickets or a bicycles
• Gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym

Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark at arkonline.org/careers/why-work-with-us/

About Us

Ark Victoria Academy provides pupils with an excellent education through an ambitious curriculum, personal development and character programme, and an extensive student experience and extra-curricular offer. Although we are a large school, we are able to retain a family feel, to nurture our pupils through their schooling and ensure that they flourish and leave us with the skills and qualifications necessary to continue their journey of life-long learning in a university or career of their choice.

Our school values and virtue pathways are crucial to our culture and ethos, they are also part of the way we work and learn together and have been instrumental to us on our school improvement journey. Our values of Ambition, Resilience and Kindness permeate our curriculum, our culture, school and our learning community.

It is for these reasons that Ark Victoria Academy was judged to be significantly improved in all areas from the 2019 'Good' inspection, by Ofsted, in October 2024: 'This is a school which lives out its values in full for the benefit of children in Nursery to the pupils in Year 11 pupils thrive at all stages of Ark Victoria Academy as the school knows its pupils very well, they are very well supported to engage with the school's ambitious curriculum'. The full report (September 2024) can be found here:

We prioritise staff development with a strong emphasis on securing expert subject knowledge from our teachers, strong teaching and leadership and a focus on excellence for our pupils and staff.

Visit arkvictoria.org/jobs to learn more about us.

Diversity and inclusion:

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone - staff and students - can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark's diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Safeguarding statement:

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark's safer recruitment process, please click this link.

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.