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  • Start date details

    September

  • Closing date

    19 April 2023 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    31 March 2023

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Working pattern

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Leadership Scale (London Fringe)

Additional allowances

Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an Assistant Principal to assist the Executive Principal and the Principal in the strategic and operational management, development and leadership of Harris Academy Riverside, and ensure the achievement of our ethos, aims and objectives within the context of the Academy's strategic and development plans.

Qualifications

  • QTS (or equivalent)
  • Degree or equivalent

Experience

  • Extensive teaching experience
  • Outstanding teaching practice
  • Successful management experience as Head of Department or member of the SLT
  • Experience of writing department SEF
  • Experience of lesson observations and giving feedback
  • Experience of improvement planning
  • Experience of implementing a range of strategies to raise student achievement, with evidence of success
  • Contribution to impact on the quality of learning and teaching and curriculum
  • Experience of developing and sustaining positive relationships with students, parents, staff and the Governing Body to build consensus support and capacity
  • Proven track record of managing and implementing change in relation to teaching practices and standards
  • A track record of success in leadership and management

Knowledge & Understanding

  • Ability to use data to analyse performance and manage interventions
  • Understands current position with the 14-19 curriculum.
  • Understands how to plan lessons with challenging learning objectives and outcomes
  • Understanding of Assessment for Learning
  • Effective use of ICT to promote learning
  • Understands the factors effecting learning
  • Understanding of e-learning
  • Strategies to maintain good behaviour and pace
  • Strategies for monitoring and evaluation of standards of attainment
  • Effective development of staff and resources

Skills and Disposition

  • Personal organisation and time management skills
  • Effective oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to analyse and interpret data effectively and act upon the information
  • Ability to think strategically
  • Ability to work within a team and manage a team
  • Ability to motivate and lead students and staff
  • Ability to analyse issues and identify solutions
  • Vision and ability to manage change successfully

What the school offers its staff

Harris Academy Riverside is a very popular non-selective and highly oversubscribed academy which opened as part of the Harris Federation and the regeneration of the Purfleet on Thames area in 2017. We serve our local community of Purfleet on Thames and West Thurrock and have 900 on roll in the secondary academy and around 200 students in the 6th form.

Vision

Harris Academy Riverside seeks to develop students who are successful, confident and happy, who inspire their community and who act with kindness and compassion towards others.

Ethos

In our procedures and daily routines, our broad and varied curriculum, our pedagogical model and through our commitment to providing experience of the wider world we aim to promote a strong sense of community and belonging, to provide a blend of high challenge and high support and to encourage the development of

  • Outstanding habits of behaviour such as self-awareness, kindness, appreciation, humility, politeness, confident self-expression and self-presentation and
  • Outstanding habits of learning such as determination, resilience, organisation, reading, studying and practice
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

Further details about the role

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Creating a true learning institution in the academy at all levels
  • Playing a major role in formulating the aims and objectives of the academy
  • Leading the development and maintenance of a high quality positive learning environment
  • Taking full responsibility for all aspects of teaching and learning in your key area of responsibility
  • Ensuring high quality teaching across the academy
  • Working with colleagues to ensure data is used effectively and consistently
  • Working with the SLT to lead the academy's assessment and reporting programme
  • Supporting staff in making sure high quality intervention programmes are in place
  • Supporting colleagues and subject leaders in developing schemes of learning, short and medium term planning
  • Developing strategies to enhance teachers' ability to learn and develop advanced skills
  • Raising students' aspirations and achievement through personalising learning
  • Ensuring the highest standards of achievement for all students
  • Ensuring equal access to and participation in all aspects of the curriculum for all students
  • Ensuring the efficient and effective provision of cross curricular skills, knowledge and understanding
  • Identifying what are successful learning outcomes and monitoring students' progress, continuity and progression
  • Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies
  • Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating teaching and learning
  • Maintaining an informed view of teaching standards and quality
  • Challenging under-performance at all levels and throughout all departments
  • Establishing high standards of behaviour, learning and attainment
  • Demonstrating and articulating high expectations
  • Acting as a role model in learning, teaching and assessment
  • Leading, managing and coordinating the activities of staff
  • Assisting in implementing effective procedures to support underperforming teachers
  • Maintaining high morale amongst staff
  • Contributing to recruitment, training, deployment and professional development of staff
  • Promoting effective management of the Academy environment, its site and buildings
  • Providing information about the work and performance of staff
  • Chairing meetings


Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Academy Riverside

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
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School size
1016 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01375 802060

Harris Academy Riverside is a very popular non-selective and highly oversubscribed academy which opened as part of the Harris Federation and the regeneration of the Purfleet on Thames area in 2017. We serve our local community of Purfleet on Thames and West Thurrock and have 900 on roll in the secondary academy and around 200 students in the 6th form.

Vision

Harris Academy Riverside seeks to develop students who are successful, confident and happy, who inspire their community and who act with kindness and compassion towards others.

Ethos

In our procedures and daily routines, our broad and varied curriculum, our pedagogical model and through our commitment to providing experience of the wider world we aim to promote a strong sense of community and belonging, to provide a blend of high challenge and high support and to encourage the development of

Outstanding habits of behaviour such as self-awareness, kindness, appreciation, humility, politeness, confident self-expression and self-presentation and
Outstanding habits of learning such as determination, resilience, organisation, reading, studying and practice

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