Assistant Principal: Responsibility for Maths
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Start date details
April
Closing date
12 December 2022 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 November 2022
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
- View all Mathematicsjobs
Working pattern
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- Directed
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale (London Fringe) based on experience
Additional allowances
Performance and 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 Principal in the strategic and operational management, development and leadership of Harris Academy Riverside , and ensure the achievement of our ethos, aims and objectives within the context of the Academy's strategic and development plans.
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
Harris Academy Riverside is a very popular non-selective and highly oversubscribed academy which opened as part of the Harris Federation and the regeneration of the Purfleet on Thames area in 2017. We serve our local community of Purfleet on Thames and West Thurrock and have 900 on roll in the secondary academy and around 200 students in the 6th form.
Vision
Harris Academy Riverside seeks to develop students who are successful, confident and happy, who inspire their community and who act with kindness and compassion towards others.
Ethos
In our procedures and daily routines, our broad and varied curriculum, our pedagogical model and through our commitment to providing experience of the wider world we aim to promote a strong sense of community and belonging, to provide a blend of high challenge and high support and to encourage the development of
- Outstanding habits of behaviour such as self-awareness, kindness, appreciation, humility, politeness, confident self-expression and self-presentation and
- Outstanding habits of learning such as determination, resilience, organisation, reading, studying and practice
Further details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
- To create a true learning institution in the academy at all levels
- To play a major role in formulating the aims and objectives of the academy
- Lead on and develop the shared vision for the academy
- Leading the development and maintenance of a high quality positive learning environment to raise standards
- To take full responsibility for all aspects of teaching and learning in your key area of responsibility
- To ensure high quality teaching across the academy and particularly in your key areas
- To work with colleagues to ensure data is used effectively and consistently across the academy
- To work with the SLT to lead the academy's assessment and reporting programme
- To support staff in making sure high quality intervention programmes are in place
- To support colleagues and subject leaders in developing schemes of learning, short and medium term planning.
- With the SLT, to develop strategies to enhance teachers' ability to learn and to develop advanced teaching skills
- Raise students' aspirations and achievement through personalising learning
- To ensure the highest standards of achievement for all students
- Ensure the entitlement of all students to have equal access to and participation in all aspects of the curriculum.
- Ensuring the efficient and effective provision of cross curricular skills, knowledge and understanding
- Identifying what are successful learning outcomes and then monitoring students' progress, continuity and progression
- Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies
- Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating teaching and learning through regular classroom observation
- To maintain an informed view of standards and of the quality of teaching across the academy
- Challenge under-performance at all levels and throughout all departments
- To establish, and maintain, the highest possible standards of behaviour, learning and attainment
- Demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set aspirational targets for the whole Academy community
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 Riverside
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1016 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Riverside website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisriverside.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01375 802060
Harris Academy Riverside is a very popular non-selective and highly oversubscribed academy which opened as part of the Harris Federation and the regeneration of the Purfleet on Thames area in 2017. We serve our local community of Purfleet on Thames and West Thurrock and have 900 on roll in the secondary academy and around 200 students in the 6th form.
Vision
Harris Academy Riverside seeks to develop students who are successful, confident and happy, who inspire their community and who act with kindness and compassion towards others.
Ethos
In our procedures and daily routines, our broad and varied curriculum, our pedagogical model and through our commitment to providing experience of the wider world we aim to promote a strong sense of community and belonging, to provide a blend of high challenge and high support and to encourage the development of
Outstanding habits of behaviour such as self-awareness, kindness, appreciation, humility, politeness, confident self-expression and self-presentation and
Outstanding habits of learning such as determination, resilience, organisation, reading, studying and practice
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