Assistant Principal (Key Stage 1)
Charles Darwin Primary School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1DJThis job expired on 14 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
14 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary: Leadership Pay Scale Points 3-5 (£49,574 - £52,072 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications: • Degree or equivalent • QTS
Experience:
• A very strong track record of impact and
high performance, ideally against whole
school priorities
• Experience of effective middle
leadership
• Strong classroom teacher and primary
experience
• Good stakeholder engagement and
management experience, including
pupils, parents/carers and staff
• Experience leading, motivating and
supporting staff to achieve high
standards
Skills, Knowledge:
• Demonstrable ability to consistently
meet or exceed agreed targets for pupil
or school outcomes.
• Ability to inspire and lead highly
effectively across a whole school
• Able to take account of others’ views
and take people with them
• Ability to think strategically - handling
intellectual and practical complexity
• Excellent communication skills,
including the ability to express ideas in
ways which make an impact and to be
direct and clear
• Knowledge of knowledge rich
curriculum principles and design,
effective pedagogy
• Knowledge of effective approaches to
the leadership of inclusion, behaviour,
attendance and SEND
Personal
qualities and
attributes:
• Highly ambitious for pupils
• Emotional resilience - able to work
effectively under pressure and receive
feedback positively
• Drive and determination
• Strong commitment to personal
development
• Collaborative – seeking and sharing
knowledge, support and advice with
colleagues at all levels and across the
school
• Able to act effectively on own initiative
and also take direction in a high impact
way
• Belief that all pupils can succeed,
regardless of background or context
• Belief in principles of inclusion
• Belief that all pupils have an entitlement
to a high-quality, academic curriculum,
based on powerful knowledge
• Belief that all pupils should have access
to rich cultural pursuits in the arts or
sport
• Sense of moral responsibility
What the school offers its staff
The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.
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.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Charles Darwin Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 409 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Charles Darwin Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@inspirationtrust.org
Charles Darwin Primary and Nursery is a thriving free-to-attend school in the heart of Norwich city centre. We offer an innovative curriculum that encourages children to thrive, with a strongly academic approach paired with a rich range of culture and sport.
Part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools, we have close links with the successful Jane Austen College and Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form.
Arranging a visit to Charles Darwin Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.
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