Assistant Principal (Teaching and Learning)
West Town Primary Academy, Peterborough, PE3 6DDThis job expired on 16 April 2021
Job start date
1 September 2021
Closing date
16 April 2021 at 9am
Date listed
10 March 2021
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £42,195 - £46,566
Assistant Principal (Teaching and Learning) job summary
We are looking for a committed Assistant Principal to join our dedicated and supportive team. This role would suit an enthusiastic and capable teacher, with leadership experience who is now keen to develop further, as well as providing career development opportunities for an established leader looking to enhance their career in a larger school.
This is an ideal opportunity for the right person to manage the staff, teaching and learning development within West Town Primary Academy, as well as opportunities to extend your experience by leading projects in the other academies that we work with. You will have a key role in developing staff, monitoring and analysing data, and being responsible for phase leadership in KS1 or KS2 as well as a key area of development. This unique role will enable you to stay in the classroom delivering great teaching and modelling good practice but experiencing the leadership and management of a growing team and developing your leadership skills.
You will be an enthusiastic, ambitious and driven leader with exceptional teaching skills and will play an active role in the continued development of our school. We are looking for someone with the skills to ensure that all of our children make excellent rates of progress regardless of starting points and background, building on our current ‘well above average’ progress.
We can offer you:
• Exciting leadership development within and beyond the Academy
• Opportunities to develop as an SLE
• Excellent support from the Trust with your own development through MA modules or similar
• A friendly and supportive positive team to work in
• A state of the art learning environment
• Involvement in an established and growing academy trust
• Potential recruitment allowance.
We are looking for someone who:
• Is keen to share and develop their own excellent practice
• Has proven impact in subject leadership and improvement
• Has a proven good record as a reflective classroom practitioner
• Is enthusiastic about the opportunities in our school
• Has the skills to guide and advise others in their practice and development
• Has high expectations of their own teaching and the children
• Has the skill to maximise children's learning
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an adventurous and forward thinking academy with some of the best outcomes in Peterborough, that is proud to be part of the Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust (CMAT).
Further information about the job
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About West Town Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 411 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- West Town Primary Academy website
- Email address
- hbuckley@westtownprimary.org
- Phone number
- 01733852400
Arranging a visit to West Town Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hbuckley@westtownprimary.org.
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