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Dudley Discover Dudley Academies Trust Always looking for great people for great jobs. Recruitment Pack Pack Recruitment 02 Contents Welcome from the Chair of Trustees Our Mission and Vision Dudley College of Technology the Trust’s sponsor About our schools What you have to offer us Who we are looking for Pay and rewards Pay scale Enhanced teacher status Pension Scheme Holiday and Leave Continuous Professional Development and Aspiring Manager Programmes Our Leaders What we have to offer you Living and working in the West Midlands A place to call home Roles we are recruiting to Contact with us Always looking for great Discover Dudley people for great jobs. Academies Trust 03 Recruitment Pack Pack Recruitment Welcome from the Chair of the Board of Trustees We are delighted that you are In this pack you will find a lot of information about interested in working for the joining and working with us. We understand you Dudley Academies Trust are looking for certain things from your working life, including job satisfaction, pay and rewards Dudley Academies Trust is a new Trust formed in commensurate with your skills and abilities and a September 2017 but we have set ourselves an supportive environment in which to work - which ambitious task to transform the life opportunities for presents the potential for personal career progression. the learners in our schools. This is fully articulated in We believe we can offer all of these things and that’s our Strategic Plan 2018-2021, which we would why we have put together this information, to clearly encourage you to read. In it we lay out our targets communicate our offer to you. If you want more for the next three years and the milestones we will information – perhaps a chat or a visit - we would be need to reach in order to increase the rate of positive delighted to hear from you. progress necessary if we are to achieve them. Thank you for taking the time to consider working with The Trust is looking to recruit staff with us. I look forward to meeting you some point soon. a commitment to providing the very best educational experience for the young Lowell Williams people of Dudley. Attainment in our schools is Chair of the Board of Trustees not where it should be and there is a legacy of low Dudley Academies Trust ambition, which the Trust is seeking to address. Yet the West Midlands economy is buoyant and there are many opportunities for individuals with the right skills levels, so it is our duty to ensure that learners leaving our schools do so with a suite of qualifications and a positive attitude, to take advantage of the full range of career pathways available. As Chair of the Board of Trustees, I can share with you our commitment and energy to make a significant difference, to invest in our staff and to create great schools in which to study and work. 04 Welcome from the Chair of the Board of Trustees Mission and Vision Mission Working together we will develop Our learners will secure positive futures, with greater inspirational schools which instil ambition numbers progressing directly into apprenticeships, and desire in young learners, open their technical education programmes and A levels. minds, widen their horizons and equip them to succeed in a challenging world. Partnership working will be evident across our family of schools, with our partner primary schools and with all key stakeholders in the region. Through highly focussed Vision collaboration we will have created the conditions for The vision for the Dudley Academies rigorous school improvement. The aspirations of our Trust is as follows: By 2021, our family of schools will be the first choice for local communities will have noticeably heightened. We young people and parents in north and central Dudley. will have developed enhanced support services for all More young people than ever before will have enrolled our learners including services to support their mental into our schools. Parents will feel proud of their children health and wellbeing. Our learners will be strong and as they progress and develop in our schools. resilient and will flourish in a culture where they want to learn. Our estates development programme will be well Our innovative teaching and learning will have underway towards our aim of developing new modern, ensured a marked improvement in learner attainment. inspirational facilities which support their learning. A team of expert practitioners will work across our Trust schools, supporting all of our teachers. Teaching Learners will report high levels of satisfaction in all will be active, exciting and inspiring, focusing on the of our schools. Our learners will comment that our needs of individual learners. Our teachers will make provision is welcoming and inclusive. As socially aware best use of the latest available learning technologies. young people, they will understand how to best Our relentless focus on aspiration will ensure more conduct themselves, professionally and socially, and to of our learners achieve high grades and both learner keep themselves safe. Our learners will enjoy school attainment and achievement will be at or above and will feel happy in a safe environment. national rates in all of our schools. Our staff will also feel happy, positive and motivated Our curriculum will be rich, broad and varied, meeting and will enjoy working across the Trust. We will have the needs of learners of all abilities. Exciting new further developed our middle and senior leadership programmes, designed and developed in partnership capacity: challenging, accessible and inspirational with our sponsor Dudley College of Technology, leadership will be evident across our schools. Highly will complement our existing offer. We will have effective and inclusive communication will ensure developed alternative pathways to meet the needs that staff have a clear understanding of their role. All of our most challenging learners. Our well developed our staff will have the opportunity to develop their and innovative links with employers will ensure that career to whatever level they aspire. Potential new our learners are well prepared to take the next steps employees will actively seek out opportunities to join into successful careers. From the many opportunities our school teams. provided to them to experience and prepare for the world of work, they will become highly employable. Our stakeholders will recognise the Dudley Effective information, advice and guidance will Academies Trust as a valued partner which supports ensure that our learners are challenged to identify the economic, social and personal development of appropriate career pathways and set aspirational young people. Stakeholders will feel assured that targets for themselves. our schools provide the highest quality learning opportunities. 05 Recruitment Pack Pack Recruitment The Sponsor, Dudley College of Technology The Trust’s sponsor, Dudley College of The college’s Strategic Plan 2016-19 outlines Technology, is one of the most successful ambitious future proposals with the emphasis on further education colleges in the UK, developing curriculum that best aligns to the region’s providing a wide range of education and skills plans and delivers economic prosperity. With training programmes across the West a high proportion of regional business involved in Midlands, enrolling some 12,000 students science, technology and engineering related fields, each year across 4,000 academic and the college prides itself on the fact that it is one of technical programmes, on both a full and few nationally to have achieved the prestigious STEM part-time basis. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Assured kite mark. Ofsted rated as “outstanding” in May 2017, the college has significantly developed its curriculum The college operates across nine sites which offer and estate over the last decade. Some £60m collectively form the Dudley Learning Quarter. of major capital investment includes the creation of This is at the centre of Dudley town, providing inspirational teaching and learning facilities aligned to university campus-like facilities through specialist regional skills priorities, exemplified by Dudley Evolve centres equipped to provide a technical education and Dudley Advance1 & 11. unsurpassed in the region. The transformational leadership that has propelled the development of the The college has a dedicated A level provision under college and the high attainment of its learners will sit the banner of Dudley Sixth, which has some 500 at the heart of the Trust. learners across 34 individual A level programmes with achievements above national rates in 2016-17. Ofsted rated as “outstanding” in May 2017, the college has significantly developed its curriculum offer and estate over the last decade. 06 07 Recruitment Pack Pack Recruitment BEACON HILL PEGASUS STJAMES THE LINK ACADEMY ACADEMY ACADEMY ACADEMY About our schools Sedgley Dudley Dudley Netherton St James Academy Beacon Hill Academy The school is situated in the centre of Dudley and The school is located in Woodsetton to the east of STJAMES BEACON HILL ACADEMY ACADEMY Dudley serves a diverse community. This is the smallest school Sedgley Sedgley. It is the largest of our schools with 1200 with 655 learners on roll; however the school is learners on roll. 35.8% of learners are eligible for free significantly undersubscribed at present. There are high school meals and there are very few English as an levels of disadvantage with 57.1% of learners eligible Additional Language learners. The school was judged for free school meals and there is a high proportion ‘good’ by Ofsted in November 2015. of learners who have English as an additional language (16%). In February 2016, the school was judged by The curriculum is relevant and responsive providing Ofsted to be ‘requires improvement’; leadership and opportunities for learners to study a wide range of management was judged as ‘good’ confirming that the subjects such as engineering, design technology and school is well led and managed by the Principal and her expressive arts.