Assistant Principal - Raising Standards (KS4)
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 4AAThis job expired on 15 April 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
15 April 2024 at 9am
Date listed
20 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale (Pt 10 - 15) (£58,959 - £66,628)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint a dynamic, inspiring and outstanding leader who has a proven track record of delivering excellent attainment and achievement. The role requires strategic thinking and the ability to lead from the front whilst offering challenge and support to all stakeholders. The post holder will also line manage a curriculum lead.
Key Purpose:
- Contribute to building a high performance leadership culture in the College
- Share responsibility for College policies, decision-making and strategic planning
- Develop an ethos of extremely high expectations of staff and students
- Take full accountability for key areas of the College’s work
- Manage staff and resources
- Monitor progress towards the achievement of the College’s aims and objectives
- Be a highly visible presence around the College and model expectations of staff and students
- Evaluate school performances and identify priorities
Leadership:
- Support the Principal in the day-to-day management of the College
- Communicate the College’s vision compellingly and support the Principal’s strategic leadership
- Lead by example, focusing on providing excellent education for all students
- Lead on particular whole-College strategies and policy areas
- Build positive relationships with members of the College community
- Keep up to date with developments in, and relating to, education
- Seek training and continuing professional development to meet own needs
Managing staff:
- Assist with the selection and recruitment of new teaching staff
- Performance manage middle leaders and/or team leaders/leads, including carrying out appraisals, providing professional development opportunities, and holding staff to account to their performance
- Challenge all underperformance of staff within the College
- Line manage Curriculum Leader
- Line manage Exams Officer
- Line manage KS4 Administrator
- Oversee the work of TLR holder for RS
Specific role Responsibilities:
- Ensure that whole College performance targets are achieved, including vocational qualification outcomes at KS4
- Creating a Winner’s Culture in Year 11
- Co-ordinate and quality assure additional study opportunities for students (Period 0/7/Champions hour/masterclasses) and the revision programme at KS4
- Regularly review key students and use resources available to motivate staff and students
- Regularly review student timetabled provision – reorganising teachers and groups where appropriate to ensure Y11 students are exposed to the best teaching
- Disseminate information to parents
- Organise KS4 Parent Sessions and co-ordinate parent’s meetings, meeting with parents where appropriate
- Train/support staff on effective intervention strategies and effective use of data
- Be responsible for implementation of high impact students and class/subject interventions and review their impact
- Support departments in developing assessments to lead to maximum impact, ensuring progress checks are cumulative and staff understand level/grade boundaries and mark rigorously to assessment criteria
- Oversight and co-ordination of students disapplied
- Hold regular Raising Standards meetings with each Curriculum Leader to quality assure the curriculum, assessments and data analysis following mock exams
- Meet with Curriculum Leaders to agree targets, interventions and feedback on individual students who are key to overall achievement targets
- Ensuring via departments that students are fully prepared for their mocks
- Using assemblies to motivate students at KS4, incentivising their efforts and linking progress to hone performance
- Monitor very carefully ‘in house variation’ at curriculum area or class teacher level, working closely with both to identify blockages and interventions/support required. Implement and monitor for impact
- Monitor and take action where group performance is below expectations. Liaise with Pastoral Leaders and SENCO to ensure all students make progress, reporting to SLT, the Governing Body and external agencies where required
- Lead on ensuring the KS4 option process is effective, with students guided towards appropriate, relevant course options and ensuring P8 compliance is achieved
- Lead on the process of preparing students for their exams, including exit timetables, revision techniques and materials, private study, use of assessment, filling knowledge gaps, revision guides
- Plan, attend and oversee the GCSE Results Day
- Organise student conferences where appropriate as an extension or enhancement of the curriculum, or to deliver explicit knowledge or skills to support achievement or personal development
- Ensure effective use of online platforms to enable and improve learning for students
- Support the departments in developing assessments and applying the Encourage departments to have exam markers and utilise this expertise in developing precision plans
- Be an active member of GLT RS group and effectively implement strategies to raise student outcomes
What the school offers its staff
SJH is an excellent school that has improved immensely in recent years and, as a result, has been oversubscribed for the last five years. Our ethos is for our students to strive ‘to greater heights’. This ethos is built on a core set of values, which underpins everything that we do. These are Ambition, Endeavour and Respect.
Our most recent Ofsted inspection was a great success and recognised the commitment of our staff to improving the College and securing the very best outcomes for our students. The College was judged to be ‘Good’ across all areas inspected. Inspectors commented:
“The school has a calm atmosphere where pupils feel safe. Pupils behave well so that learning is not disrupted. Pupils talk positively about their learning.”
“Overwhelmingly, positive behaviours and attitudes to learning seen.”
“The culture is all about learning, with a strong work ethos.”
“Learning is the core of all that happens.”
“Leaders provide effective support to develop teachers' subject and pedagogical knowledge. Staff are very positive about the support they receive from leaders. They are proud to work at the school. Those newest to teaching speak particularly highly of the support they receive. Leaders listen carefully to staff. This helps them manage staff well-being and workload.”
We offer a state-of-the-art College facility which is equipped with an entirely new IT infrastructure, including touch screens and visualisers in every classroom. We pride ourselves on managing the workload of staff by offering a disruption-free learning environment, only three assessment points throughout the year, no lesson observations, no lesson planners and no book marking. We have weekly CPD sessions for all teaching staff, including whole school staff sessions and sessions directed by Curriculum Leaders to work with their teams. We prioritise and work hard on the things that are important and have impact.
The design of our curriculum is clear and is based on the acquisitions of knowledge and skills through effective planning and sequencing. The implementation of our curriculum is simple: effective delivery, effective teaching and effective assessment. We offer the full curriculum entitlement to our students, featuring a three-year Key Stage3/two-year Key Stage 4. We have a comprehensive offer of qualifications, both at Key Stage 4 and 5 and we give teachers the opportunity to teach across all phases.
We welcome applications from highly motivated and experienced teachers with the vision and ability to commit towards the department. If you would like to find out more about the College, please visit our website. We would welcome any potential candidates to come and visit the College during the day to meet the team and experience the learning environment for themselves.
Commitment to safeguarding
Sir John Hunt CSC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out; references will be sought for all shortlisted candidates and all shortlisted candidates will be requested to complete a questionnaire about any convictions or adult cautions that are unspent. Guidance will be given to those shortlisted.
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About Sir John Hunt Community Sports College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 793 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sjh-recruitment@sjhcsc.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01752 201020
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College is at the heart of its community. At our College every student is valued and nurtured. We know all of our students as individuals ensuring they are happy at school, feel safe, enjoy learning, are challenged and make the best of their talents.
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