Assistant Vice Principal
Plume School, Maldon, Essex, CM9 6ABThis job expired on 15 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
15 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time: Mondays - Fridays, 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L16 - L20
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a dedicated, hardworking, and dynamic Assistant Vice Principal to lead our Mill Road Campus. Reporting directly to the Vice Principal, this role is pivotal in ensuring that our academy fulfils its core aims and objectives, embodying our vision, values, and ethos.
As Assistant Vice Principal, you will collaborate with our team to enhance student achievement and ensure their safety and well-being. You will play a key role in supporting all students to sustain our high expectations of behaviour and attitudes, ensuring that every student receives the attention and support they deserve through our extensive pastoral support provision. Creating resilience within our students' character as well as enabling them to impact our wider community will be paramount to the successfully creating a respectful and successful Mill Road Campus for our students in Year 7 and Year 8.
Working within the Senior Leadership Team, you will foster a secure, challenging, and inclusive environment for both students and staff. Your role will involve guiding and managing our dedicated team and promoting teamwork and mutual respect. Additionally, you will partner with the Vice Principal to oversee the day-to-day operations of behaviour and attitudes across the Mill Road Campus, ensuring all students are supported with reasonable adjustments linked to factors such as special educational needs, disadvantaged, or looked after status.
Join us in creating an aspirational educational journey for all students at our Mill Road Campus.
Personal Qualities
The successful applicant should have a good honours degree and a QTS or equivalent teaching qualification and be able to demonstrate top-level operational management. Evidence of further study and continuing professional development is also positively encouraged.
Applicants should have a tremendous work ethic, unrelenting enthusiasm and be fully committed to fostering the learning and personal development of year 7 and 8 students. They should also have a vested interest in curriculum structure, a high level of integrity, and the ability to show strong entrepreneurial skills. They should also have a proven track record of meeting deadlines.
If you are ready to make a real difference in the lives of the community of Maldon and contribute to the success of our academy, we want to hear from you!
What the school offers its staff
Electric Vehicle Scheme
24/7 Free Employee Assistance Programme
CPD opportunities and Internal Promotion
Up to 25% Gym Membership
Free staff car park
Commitment to safeguarding
The Board of Trustees is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointment are therefore subject to satisfactory DBS and Immigration Checks, together with the receipt of References and Health Clearances.
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About Plume School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1706 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Plume School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@plume.essex.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01621854681
The Plume School converted to become an academy school in January 2012.
The last full inspection took place in November 2023 and the school was judged to be good across all areas. Ofsted acknowledged the high quality of teaching and excellent relationships in the Academy. Please see the academy website for more information.
The academy is a larger-than-average secondary school with a sixth form.
The vast majority of pupils are White British.
The proportions of pupils who speak English as an additional language or who are from ethnic minorities are both well below the national average.
The proportion of students eligible for the pupil premium is broadly average, as is the proportion of pupils who have SEN and/or disabilities, although for those with an education, health and care plan the proportion is slightly above the national average.
The school meets the government’s current floor standards for pupils’ achievement in English and mathematics at the end of key stage 4.
Plume Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are therefore subject to satisfactory DBS and Immigration Checks, together with the receipt of references.
Visits to the Academy are welcome.
Arranging a visit to Plume School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@plume.essex.sch.uk.
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