Director of Ethos and Culture
Saint Gabriel's College, London, SW9 6UL9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026 or sooner
Closing date
16 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
7 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary: Leadership Pay Scale 14-17
Additional allowances
Salary: Leadership Pay Scale 14-17
Director of Ethos and Culture job summary
About the Role
The Director of Ethos and Culture is directly accountable to the Vice Principal and plays a central role in sustaining and promoting the Christian ethos, culture, and values of Saint Gabriel’s College. This senior leadership role ensures that every student can flourish academically, socially, and personally within a safe, inclusive, and values-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Assist the Principal in maintaining the school’s ethos and culture.
- Plan, manage, and sustain processes that develop and embed the school’s values across all areas.
- Oversee and coordinate the Academic Support Year Lead (ASYL) Team, ensuring Level 3 safeguarding compliance.
Student Experience & Development
- Maintain the school advisory programme.
- Develop students’ cultural capital through enrichment, careers events, and alumni engagement.
- Promote equity, diversity, and positive behaviour, including rewards, sanctions, and formal events.
- Sustain effective attendance, welfare, and admissions processes.
Community & External Links
- Build and maintain links with local schools and the wider community.
- Oversee alumni engagement and ensure opportunities for inspirational events.
- Serve as Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) with full oversight of safeguarding policies and practice.
- Ensure positive behaviour practices, including managing internal and external suspensions.
- Support staff in maintaining high professional standards and promoting the school’s Christian ethos.
This role is central to ensuring Saint Gabriel’s College remains a thriving, inclusive community where all students are supported to achieve their God-given potential.
Contract: This is a full-time, permanent position.
Start date: January 2026 or sooner
Requirements
Qualifications
- Degree and teaching qualification (required)
- Experience 3+ years middle leadership experience with demonstrable impact (required)
- NPQ or equivalent (desirable)
- Evidence of ongoing professional development (desirable)
- Experience 1+ year senior leadership experience with demonstrable impact (desirable)
Attributes
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of safeguarding and education systems
- Effective time management and IT competence (Google Education Suite)
- Commitment to safeguarding, equality, and student success
How to apply: If you think, you have the skills, experience, and passion that we need, please do apply.
An application form is provided with the online advertisement or can be obtained from recruitment@saintgabrielscollege.org.
- Closing date: Completed applications should be submitted by 12 noon Wednesday 15th October 2026 your personal statement should be no more than two pages.
- Interviews: Week commencing 27th October 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the future of Saint Gabriel’s College, ensuring every student achieves their potential in a thriving diverse community.
Child safeguarding statement
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of our students and we expect all Governors, Staff, Volunteers and Contractors to demonstrate the same commitment.
Saint Gabriel’s College and the Southwark Diocese Board of Education are committed to positively addressing discrimination in all forms and that all sectors of the community have fair and equal access and experience within employment. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds and communities, particularly those underrepresented in our workforce.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Saint Gabriel's College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 594 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Saint Gabriel's College website
Saint Gabriel’s College is a small inclusive Church of England secondary school where every member of the community is valued. All our students are encouraged to achieve excellence by working hard, continuously improving, growing spiritually and thinking of others.
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