Assistant Principal (Curriculum)
Dogsthorpe Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 4LHThis job expired on 5 May 2024
Start date details
September
Closing date
5 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L4-L7
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary L4 - L7
Assistant principal (Curriculum)
Closing date: Sunday 5 May 2024, Interviews: Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Are you looking for your next leadership challenge and ambitious to develop your career?
We areseeking to appoint an inspiring assistant principal to join our committed and enthusiastic Senior Leadership Team. The successful candidate will be an experienced middle leader with extensive knowledge of teaching and learning and a desire to develop professionally at a strategic level within the academy. If successful. they will have responsibility for shaping and developing aspects of our curriculum offer.
To be successful you will have:
- ensured sustained positive outcomes for all children, through consistently ‘great’ teaching.
- successfully led a core area of the curriculum.
- previously led the strategic development of ‘evidence-informed’ inclusive teaching practices.
- delivered professional development, coached and mentored colleagues across school, at different career stages, securing improved outcomes for all children, including those with high levels of educational need.
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
What the school offers its staff
About us
We are a large junior academy, with a committed staff team, serving a wonderfully diverse community in Peterborough. The academy, last inspected in February 2023, is considered an ‘improving academy’, with the new leadership team making positive strides in addressing key priorities.
As an academy, we work hard to meet the needs of all our children and are totally committed to the principals of inclusion. We are experienced in multi-agency work, and our dedicated staff team are focused on ensuring that every child receives the highest quality education and care. If you are a current or aspiring leader, who would like to work in a school where relationships are authentic, supportive, and respectful, then Dogsthorpe Academy may just be the opportunity you are looking for.
The role will be classroom based. We will provide dedicated release time to work on further improving achievement across the academy, identifying areas for development through accurate evaluation and quality assurance.
In return:
You can be assured that you will be joining a successful Multi-Academy Trust that has a great track record in helping children to succeed no matter what their background. The Trust is dedicated to valuing and developing the workforce whether that be through ensuring a fair workload or offering access to bespoke CPD from the Learning Alliance to enhance professional growth.
Visits to the academy, or telephone calls to our Executive principal, Vicki Redhead are warmly welcomed.
If this post attracts sufficient interest before the closing date, we may decide to close and interview this vacancy at an earlier date, so an early application is advised.
Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All posts will be subject to receipt of satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, medical and reference checks. All pre-employment checks are in line with "Keeping Children Safe in Education”.
All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.
The Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Dogsthorpe Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 381 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Dogsthorpe Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- people@greenwoodacademies.org
The Dogsthorpe Junior Academy, part of the Greenwood Academies Trust (GAT), is a junior academy situated in a small community in the north of Peterborough. It is led by the Principal, Julie Cranke, who aims to ensure that it delivers an exciting, innovative and creative curriculum that meets the needs of the pupils. All staff work hard to ensure that every pupil is supported and nurtured, helping them to develop the confidence and skills needed for the years ahead. In addition to the formal curriculum, pupils are also provided with a range of opportunities to follow their own interests and carry out individualised learning programmes.
Arranging a visit to Dogsthorpe Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email people@greenwoodacademies.org.
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