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Assistant Principal (Teaching & Learning)

West Town Primary Academy, Peterborough, PE3 6DD

This job expired on 20 October 2020 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 January 2021

• Closing date

  20 October 2020 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 October 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership payscale

Assistant Principal (Teaching & 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 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 pupils 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 new 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).

For application and contact details visit our website at www.westtownprimary.org the closing date for applications is 9am on Tuesday 20th October 2020. Interviews will be held on Thursday 22nd October 2020. Please contact our Office Manager Helen Buckley on 01733 852400 to arrange a visit to find out more about the post.

West Town Primary Academy and CMAT are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

This post has a salary within the national leadership pay scale. The anticipated start date is January 2021.

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.

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About West Town Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 391 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: West Town Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hbuckley@westtownprimary.org
• Phone number: 01733 852400
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/west-town-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

Welcome to our academy where we hope you will experience a wealth of enthusiasm for learning and for supporting and helping each other. We are sure you will quickly feel the friendly and positive ethos in the academy from both the staff and the children who would love to share their latest pieces of work and activities with you.

Please look round our website to see what we have been up to recently and discover our approach to teaching and learning. Please contact us if you would like to find out more information about the Academy or if you would like to visit us.

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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