Assistant Principal
Harris Academy Greenwich, London, SE9 5EQThis job expired on 22 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September
Closing date
22 March 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 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
Subject
- Business studies
Working pattern
- Full time: Directed
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale (Inner London)
Additional allowances
Performance & 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 Head of School in the strategic and operational management, development and leadership of Harris Academy Greenwich.
We, as SLT, create and maintain systems that allow teachers to teach and students to learn.
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
In this corner of South East London we have a clear mission: to run a great school which offers every child, regardless of circumstance, the chance to thrive both personally and academically.
We make no apology for believing a key part to a happy and fulfilled life is a great set of exam results. They are the currency which students require to progress to next stage of their education. No amount of celebrity disapproval or stories of success against the odds will convince us otherwise. Results matter to our community.
We know that academic progress is critical to our students enjoying lives of choice and opportunity but that they also need to develop the content of their character and have a range of rich experiences which they will never forget. We want to help students have warm hearts and cool heads so that they are ready for the challenges of adolescence and ultimately adulthood. In short, we want our students to live well.
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.
About Harris Academy Greenwich
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1167 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Greenwich website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisgreenwich.org.uk
- Phone number
- 020 8859 0133
Harris Academy Greenwich is a really happy and successful inner-city London 11-18 school with a thriving 6th Form, and a brand new state-of-the-art building. It is a school where we are as passionate about developing our staff as we are about developing our students. It is a school where we strip out all the red tape and nonsense that goes on in too many places, and just focus on what works for our students. It is a school where we concentrate on making sure our staff are happy and highly motivated throughout the year, with zero burnout. Ever.
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