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About Black Country Alternative Provision (BCAP)
Black Country Alternative Provision (BCAP) is an ambitious and rapidly evolving campus at the heart of the Youth Engagement Schools' Trust (The YES Trust). Established in December 2024, BCAP brings together two specialist academies in Wolverhampton:
- The Kairos Academy: Alternative Provision for students in Key Stages 3 and 4.
- The Vireo Academy: SEMH Alternative Provision and Home & Hospital School, supporting students across Key Stages 2, 3 and 4.
At BCAP, we believe that every young person deserves the opportunity to thrive, regardless of their starting point or the challenges they face. Through exceptional teaching, outstanding pastoral care and an unwavering commitment to inclusion, we are transforming lives and creating brighter futures for some of the region's most vulnerable learners.
Our curriculum combines high-quality academic learning, delivered in small classes, with an extensive range of vocational, practical and enrichment opportunities. Students benefit from access to our impressive Sports Centre and Skills Centre, helping them develop the confidence, character and aspirations needed for successful futures.
Why BCAP?
We are on an exciting journey with a clear vision:
To become a beacon of excellence for Wolverhampton and the Black Country, and a national leader in Alternative Provision.
At BCAP, you will join a dedicated and supportive team committed to achieving the very best outcomes for young people. Working within The YES Trust, you will benefit from a collaborative environment where innovation is encouraged, professional development is valued and every colleague plays an important role in shaping the future of our provision.
Alongside our educational transformation, BCAP is benefiting from significant capital investment designed to create outstanding learning environments for our students. This includes major improvements to the estate, alongside wider
enhancements to both indoor and outdoor spaces, ensuring our facilities reflect the ambition we have for every young person.
These investments are about more than buildings; they are about creating inspiring, safe and modern environments where young people can flourish, engage in learning and achieve success.
Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking passionate and committed teachers who:
- Share our unwavering belief in the potential of every young person.
- Build positive, trusting relationships with students, families and colleagues.
- Demonstrate resilience, adaptability and a commitment to inclusive education.
- Have high expectations and a passion for helping students overcome barriers to learning.
- Embody the YES Trust values of being child-centred, adaptive, sensitive to need and authentic in their relationships.
Join Us
If you are passionate about changing lives through education and want to be part of an organisation with bold ambitions and a clear sense of purpose, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Come and see our academies, meet our team and discover how you could make a real difference to the lives of young people across Wolverhampton and the Black Country.
To deliver the vision, our subject teachers will work in collaboration with the Headteacher focusing on three key themes:
1) Re-connecting, raising aspirations and motivating
- A whole education, recognising that essential pre-cursors to academic success are personal and emotional development, independent living and decision-making skills and discovering meaningful interests and goals
- A personalised curriculum including specific engagement activities based on the interests of each individual learner
- Positive and trusted adult role models in the form of Learning Mentors and qualified teachers recruited for their enthusiasm for working with disconnected young people and their ability to understand and adapt, in order to meet the needs of the students
- Opportunities to support social and emotional needs through individualised programmes and a varied curriculum
- The curriculum will determine the knowledge and skills students will learn at each stage. It will be planned efficiently to deliver exceptional lessons where students make outstanding progress, and are able to relate their learning to the wider world
- Individualised learning programmes, based on the interests and skills of the students and which draw upon the diverse range of pastoral, vocational, engagement and personal and social development activities
- Small groups of students (max 1:10) with capability to offer 1 to 1 student support
- Practical application of knowledge to develop skills that prepare for accreditation and work towards independence and social integration
2) Unlocking every child’s potential
3) Recognising and celebrating achievement
§ Positive learning environments with praise for success and recognition of achievement
§ Regular liaison with parents and carers to involve them fully in the education of their children including weekly progress telephone calls
§ Celebration of success through weekly celebrations with students and staff rewards for targeted elements and high-profile annual celebration events
§ Relevant vocational learning that broadens the curriculum we offer to students, providing the opportunity to support their classroom learning by gaining practical skills in the workplace and ultimately allowing them to achieve recognised qualifications
Key Priorities
- Support the vision and direction of the school
- Provide an engaging curriculum within the academy
- Deliver and maintain effective learning and teaching throughout school
- Ensure effective pastoral care and behaviour support throughout the school
- To be responsible for the day-to-day impact of own subject across the curriculum
- Willingness to demonstrate a flexible approach to the curriculum to meet school requirements
Teaching and Learning
Teachers at the academy will help secure and sustain effective teaching and learning throughout the Academy, monitor and evaluate progress and present students’ achievements, effectively using benchmarks to track set targets for improvements. They will:
- Deliver the teaching of their own subject within the school and other subjects as and when required
- Support and maintain an environment and a code of behaviour and discipline which promotes and secures good teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement
- Support and maintain the mental health and wellbeing of the students which promotes and secures good teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement
- Help organise the curriculum and its assessment and work with the SLT to monitor and evaluate it in order to identify areas for improvement
- Ensure that the curriculum and assessments meet National Curriculum requirements
- Ensure that improvements in literacy and numeracy are priority targets for all students across school
- To liaise with the Academy’s SENCO in order to identify students who require further support or intervention
- Deliver and support the PHSE and RHSE programmes across the school
Partnership Working
- Support in establishing a culture and curriculum which fulfils the aims and requirements of the whole school community as set out in the vision
- Seek opportunities to invite parents and carers into the academy to enrich student experience and to promote the academy’s value to the wider community
- Collaborate with staff, to actively promote British values, as well as the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of students and their families
- Represent the academy at relevant meetings, as and when required
Health and Safety / Child Protection
- To help ensure that health and safety standards meet statutory requirements, monitoring health and safety matters within the school, particularly ensuring that all members of staff take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others
- To help ensure that Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures and Department of Health assessments of Children in Need are rigorously complied with, and that the welfare and health and safety of students are of prime consideration
- To promote the safety and well-being of students and staff
- To ensure good order and discipline of students and staff
