Principal of Excelsior College
Excelsior Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE15 6AFThis job expired on 22 April 2019 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2019
Closing date
22 April 2019 at 1am
Date listed
21 March 2019
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- £60,000 to £60,000
Principal of Excelsior College job summary
Principal of Excelsior College
Excelsior Academy
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE15 6AF
Salary £60,000 with potential for bonus and performance related increase
Permanent
Full Time
The Trustees are seeking to appoint a Principal for Excelsior College with effect from September 2019 or earlier by negotiation.
Excelsior Academy is an innovative academy in its eleventh year. It works on a ‘schools within a school’ model. Excelsior is part of the Laidlaw Schools Trust, created to give children from socially and economically challenged areas the best possible education and start in life. In September 2013, we became Newcastle’s first ‘all through’ Academy educating children from age 3 to 19 years old.
Working at Excelsior will challenge you – but the rewards are huge. Successful candidates will play an important role in our continuous drive for further improvement and will have the potential to work in Key Stages three, four and five.
The successful candidate will join a successful MAT where all Academies support each other to the benefit of our pupils and their families. Our Academies also enjoy strong support from an experienced LST central team, based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
If you think you have the talent and drive to transform the life chances of our pupils, then we would love to hear from you. Subject knowledge is essential, but so is the enthusiasm and creativity to spark our pupils’ imaginations.
Our sixth form is successful and inclusive, offering a wide range of both vocational and academic courses. It has rapidly expanded in recent years.
The Trust is interested in applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates.
This is a key strategic position within Excelsior Academy which should be of interest to experienced leaders with:
A proven record of outstanding teaching at KS4 and KS5
Experience of successful leadership in an 11- 18 school/academy at least Assistant Principal level
Sound knowledge and understanding of the challenges of leadership of a sixth form
During recent years Excelsior College has grown year on year as the majority of Y11 pupils chose to stay at Excelsior to continue their studies post 16. It offers a wide range of courses at A and AS level as well as some level 2.
Please complete an application form (Download from the Careers Section of our website ) and submit it with a letter of application of no more than 2 sides of A4 outlining the 4 key challenges for post 16 education during the next few years and your thoughts for responding to those challenges.
Please summarise the academic standards that your pupils have achieved (attainment and progress) in the last three years, as well as those of the team(s) that you have contributed to or been responsible for. Please keep this to within 1 side of A4.
Please summarise your involvement in working with a sixth form in the last three years, beyond teaching your subject and the impact of your work. Please keep this to within 1 side of A4.
Further details and an application pack can be downloaded from the Careers section on the Laidlaw Schools Trust website http://laidlawschoolstrust.com/careers/. Interested candidates are welcome to tour the school, please contact Julie Foster on 0191 2288 506 to arrange a visit. If you wish to have an informal discussion about this post, please contact: Julie Foster, PA to Executive Principal – j.foster@excelsiornewcastle.org.uk or call 0191 2288 506.
Closing Date: 12 noon on Monday 22nd April 2019.
Candidates who have not been contacted by Friday 26th April 2019 may assume they have been unsuccessful.
Interviews will take place: week commencing 7th May 2019.
Applications should be returned to: M.Zafar@excelsiornewcastle.org.uk
We are an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to obtain an Enhanced Certificate of Disclosure from the DBS and a range of other recruitment checks. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their commitment to children’s safeguarding.
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.
About Excelsior Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Through schooljobs
- School size
- 1497 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Excelsior Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- M.Zafar@excelsiornewcastle.org.uk
At the heart of our community we create the highest quality learning experiences in support of the needs and aspirations of each of our learners in our inspiring, safe and welcoming environment to help all our learners achieve and flourish a relevant, purposeful and inclusive education in preparation for life and your future.
At Excelsior Academy we strive to meet the needs and aspirations of all our learners to enable each and every pupil to achieve and flourish so we place ‘the child’ at the heart of all we do.
Excelsior Academy is an ‘all through academy’, made up of three phases; Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form College. Each phase has a family feel, where our pupils feel safe, comfortable and confident to achieve their potential.
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