Assistant Vice Principal (Behaviour and Safeguarding)
The Compass Academy, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU7 5DS7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
June or September 2025
Closing date
2 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £53,602.00 - £57,831.00 Annually (Actual) Salary shown is based on Leadership Scale Points 4 to 7
Assistant Vice Principal (Behaviour and Safeguarding) job summary
Compass Academy is seeking to appoint an Assistant Vice Principal to contribute to the existing Leadership team to lead on the areas of Behaviour and Safeguarding. The successful candidate will have already demonstrated excellent leadership skills in their current or previous roles. As a leader you will be highly motivated, ambitious and driven. You will be an adaptive and creative thinker, and be able to strategically apply this to devising and implementing new initiatives. The successful candidate will be a highly visible part of our school community, an integral part of both the leadership and wider school teams. This is an excellent opportunity for both established and new leaders to undertake a rewarding and challenging role, and professionally develop further in a dedicated, committed and supportive environment.
The successful candidate will lead and manage a highly skilled pastoral team and have experience of working with a variety of professionals. An understanding of trauma and the impact of adverse childhood experiences upon child development is desirable but can be provided through training. Existing experience and understanding of Autism and ADHD would be beneficial to the role. The role will require working with trauma informed assessment systems to target group and individual interventions. The successful candidate will need to engage with, and lead on, Safe Handling training and be confident in tailoring and delivering a range of CPD, both internally and externally (if required).
Compass Academy is a KS3 Alternative Provision academy which supports young people aged 11-14 years who are not able to engage with mainstream education. typically due to learning needs, significant trauma, or as a result of permanent exclusion. The core offer meets basic needs, allowing for greater levels of regulation and engagement. There is a strong focus on the assessment of need, breaking down barriers and developing the whole child. Preparing students, personally and academically, for the next stage of education is vitally important.
Strong communication and organisational skills are essential for this role. The successful candidate will be able to model the highest levels of professionalism, with both empathy and integrity, whilst building strong and key relationships with colleagues, our pupils, parents and commissioners. The personal qualities of kindness, teamwork and resilience are reflective of the whole school values and vital to the role.
Job Details
Hours of Work: 1 FTE
Position Type: Permanent Post
Line Manager: Principal
Travel Required: Yes
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Compass Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 51 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Compass Academy website (opens in new tab)
The Compass Alternative Provision Academy is a member of the Sentamu Academy Learning Trust (SALT) situated to the north of Hull with open aspects. It also sits on the boundary of the East Riding, very close to the village of Wawne. It provides Alternative Provision education to students aged between 11 and 14. The academy provides a warm and friendly environment with staff and governors working together to provide a happy, secure and caring environment. We value the positive impact that restorative practice brings to the school community where all are valued and respected. Our curriculum is highly flexible and tailored to individual need and may change over time. We look for every opportunity to be innovative and maintain a 21st Century offer to students. The academy currently has the local authority commission 50 places with additional places commissioned by Hull secondary schools.All students within the academy have SEND needs, a proportion of which have EHCPs or are being assessed for EHCPs. Students benefit from a range of therapeutic support and individual plans to meet their needs.
Our Vision:
Together we will create powerful and collective experiences of compassion, courage, achievement & meaning. Ultimately, supporting & encouraging our pupils to chart their own course through life as successful citizens.
Our Values:
We believe each and every member of our Compass family has the right to be successful, feel valued, loved and cared for.
Aims:
• We aim to help pupils see their value and worthwhile feeling that they belong
• We aim to develop the skills of empathy, resilience and respect in each pupil
• We aim to promote lifelong learning through a broad & balanced curriculum
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