Assistant Principal (Raising Achievement)
Jane Austen College, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1DD9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
May 2025
Closing date
31 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary: Leadership Pay Scale Points 12 - 18 (£65,286 - £75,673 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications: • First degree or equivalent • QTS
Experience:
• Proven teacher, leader and educational
strategist at relevant phase level
• Outstanding classroom practitioner
• Proven ability to develop high quality,
academic curriculum that exceeds the
needs of its pupils
• Proven experience of raising standards
of achievement through innovative and
collaborative practice
• Successful involvement in performance
management, self-evaluation process /
annual development plan
• Evidence of designing and
implementing effective initiatives for
raising pupil attainment and improving
the quality of raising
achievement strategies
• Successful working relationships with
all stakeholders, including pupils, staff,
parents/carers and the wider
community
• Successful experience in leading and
managing pedagogic changes at a team,
and preferably whole school level
• Proven practice in leading, motivating
and supporting staff to achieve high
standards
Skills, Knowledge:
• Able to lead, motivate and develop
people of all ages to work individually
and in teams
• Able to instigate and successfully
manage change
• Able to analyse and use data to
establish benchmarks and set
challenging targets for improvement on
an individual, team, department and
pupil level
• Able to make decisions, identify and
solve problems based on thorough
analysis and sound judgement
• Excellent interpersonal, written and
oral communication and presentation
skills
• Strong organisational skills and ability
to work well under pressure
• Ability to delegate, plan and manage
time effectively
• Personal resilience and the ability to
maintain staff morale at times of
pressure and change
• Ability to access educational research
and apply it in innovative ways in order
to improve standards.
Personal
Attributes:
• A highly professional and positive role
model acting as an ambassador for the
Trust at all times.
• A willingness to embrace and celebrate
the ethos and values of the school
• Able to evidence a commitment to
ongoing personal and professional
development.
• Evidence of life-long learning and an
understanding of the importance of new
ideas, taking appropriate risks and using
challenges as an opportunity to grow and
learn.
• Possess integrity and relate appropriately
to inspire commitment, enthusiasm and
confidence from staff, pupils, academy
committee members and parents/carers.
• Respectful towards all pupils, with an
unshakable belief in their entitlement to
the highest quality education and ability
to achieve whatever their personal
circumstances.
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.
Applying for the job
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About Jane Austen College
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1062 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Jane Austen College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@inspirationtrust.org
Jane Austen College is a thriving secondary school and sixth form in the heart of Norwich city centre. We combine the modern and traditional, marrying academic rigour and innovative teaching techniques. Our sixth form is one of the top performing in Norfolk and we have been rated by Ofsted as Outstanding in four out of five areas, with an overall rating of Good.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools in East Anglia, and work closely with Charles Darwin Primary and Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form as well as the Trust's other schools around the region.
Arranging a visit to Jane Austen College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.
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