Assistant Principal - Head of Sixth Form
Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy, Chester le Street, County Durham, DH3 2LP13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
8 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L16 - L20
What skills and experience we're looking for
* we are looking for someone with a proven track record of excellent teaching and/or subject leadership up to A level, as well as experience or aptitude in pastoral work
What the school offers its staff
Our commitment in recent years to the professional development of all our staff has resulted in substantially improved leadership, teaching and learning, pastoral care, and provision for students with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Over 20 of our colleagues have completed National Professional Qualifications, at all levels, and last year almost half of our teaching staff were directly (and voluntarily!) involved in Ambition Institute’s Transforming Teaching programme. This has led to a culture of coaching and peer-led staff development across the whole school. Joining the leadership team in 2025, you will benefit from high standards of mentoring, support from your colleagues, and a commitment to your own further professional growth: this is a career-defining opportunity for the right person.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@lordlawson.academy
CVs are not accepted.
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About Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1353 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- swakefield1@lordlawson.academy
- Phone number
- 01914334026
Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy is a successful 11-18 mainstream co-educational academy which has improved rapidly over recent years. We recently celebrated achieving a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating in our November 2022 inspection. The improvement in progress 8 scores from 2019 to 2022 indicates we are the most improved school in Gateshead and among the top 10% of schools for improvement in the North East of England.
We provide an exceptional programme of CPD for staff. We know this through staff surveys and our exceptionally low levels of staff turnover. The majority of staff who have left us have gone on to promoted positions. Staff are happy here; Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy is a good place to work. We have high expectations of our staff and students, but we also know our staff are our greatest asset, and we treat them with respect. We value the development of all our staff and you will develop further as a teacher during your time here.
Our next steps are to build on our recent achievements, and to improve the attainment and progress of our disadvantaged students, including those with SEND. We also want to engage more effectively with our community, and continue to expand our already thriving extra-curricular offer for our students. Alongside these aims, we aim to expand our sixth form further, by attracting applications from other local schools, as well as ensuring more of our students complete key stage 4 with the qualifications required for further academic study.
Arranging a visit to Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email swakefield1@lordlawson.academy.
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