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Catch22 is a social business, a not-for-profit business, with a social mission. For over 200 years we have designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. Our 1600 colleagues work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting 44,000 individuals, from cradle to career.

Today we deliver alternative education, apprenticeships and employability programmes, justice, and rehabilitation services (in prisons and in the community), gangs intervention work, emotional wellbeing and substance misuse, and children’s social care programmes.

Catch22 Include

Catch22 include is an alternative education provider for young people. Over 700 vulnerable young people with challenging behaviours are supported through independent alternative education schools, and a range of tailored support programmes, which are delivered either in school, or off-site. Include schools provide an alternative to mainstream schooling, whereby multiple barriers to learning have previously affected engagement and access to education.

Catch22 include Norfolk is an Ofsted registered independent school. It provides full-time, alternative, secondary education for young people years 9-11, who have been excluded from their previous school or pupil referral unit, or who need additional support to what is offered by a mainstream setting.

This is an exciting opportunity to join us within our online provision, as an Assistant Headteacher. Working in our alternative education provision, you will be required to provide effective leadership and management, overseeing our Cloud22 curriculum, for pupils aged 13 to 16 years old. This position is based on-site at either our Kings Lynn or our Norwich school, and we can offer flexibility with homeworking.

This role would require you:

• To provide effective leadership and management on a specific site for a registered school, delivering a safe and secure education provision, for students with complex needs and behaviours.
• To be the driver in behaviour management, and student support, for complex and vulnerable students.

Main Duties and Accountabilities:

• Acting as role model; championing Catch22 and the Education directorate’s vision and values.
• Leading the development of the local self-assessment report, with subsequent improvement planning, and contributing to the overall quality improvement process of the school.
• Managing and analysing performance data, taking appropriate actions to address areas of underperformance, and reporting to Head Teacher and Executive Principal.

Assistant SENCO:

• Supporting the EHCP Annual Review Process within your site, to ensure that Catch22 fulfils its legal duty and requirements, to meet the needs of learners.
• Regularly reviewing the provision of all pupils with the SENCO, to ensure that Catch22 offer the correct support and interventions for all pupils; this includes reviewing the quality and impact of the provision.
• Creating an inspirational learning environment, with high expectations of learner achievement, success, and progression.

• A recognised higher qualification, and significant experience of teaching and planning, with a willingness to work towards QTS.
• Degree in related subject.
• It is a requirement that the post holder has attended/will attend local safeguarding training that complies with national guidance.
• Experience of working with children that struggle in mainstream education, including those with ACEs, complex, high behaviour, and additional learning needs.
• Experience of quality assurance, and leading and managing teams to improve performance, and deliver outstanding teaching and learning.
• Access to a car, and a full driving licence.

Please click here to view the full Job Description.

Salary: £40,001 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent (52 weeks of the year)

• Access to a car, and a full driving licence, is a requirement of this role.

Catch22 Independent school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

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Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.