Senior Assistant Principal - Head of Student Experience

Beacon Academy, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, DN35 9NF

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2025

• Closing date

  12 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership Scale 8-12

Senior Assistant Principal - Head of Student Experience job summary

Purpose of the post

The Head of Student Experience is a Senior Assistant Principal position responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive strategy to enhance the overall student experience at Beacon Academy. This role is essential in fostering a positive school culture, promoting student engagement and wellbeing, and ensuring that all pupils thrive both academically and personally. The Senior Assistant Principal will play a major role in assisting the Principal and Senior Vice Principal to:

• Formulate the aims and the objectives of the Academy

• Establish the policies through which they are to be achieved

• Managing staff and resources towards their achievement

• Monitoring student progress, behaviour and safeguarding

• Develop a Personal Development curriculum, Enrichment & other experiences that meets the needs of the pupils within the Academy

IN RELATION TO THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS

The appointment is subject to the current conditions for Assistant Head of Schools contained in the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document, the 1998 School Standards and Framework Act, the required standards for Qualified Teacher Status and other current legislation.

Responsibilities

Shaping the future - The Senior Assistant Principal will:

• Ensure the vision for the Academy is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all

• Motivate and work with others to create a shared culture and positive climate

• Work with individual staff and teams to translate the Academy vision into agreed objectives and operational plans which will promote and sustain Academy improvement

• Support the vision, ethos and policies of the Academy and promote high levels of achievement throughout the Academy.

• Actively support the Principal, Senior Vice Principal, Governors and staff in the promotion and achievement of the aims and objectives of the Academy.

• As a member of the Academy leadership team, be involved in the planning, monitoring, evaluation and development of the Academy curriculum through the Academy Improvement Plan.

• Support all staff in achieving the priorities and targets the Academy sets and monitor the progress towards meeting them

• Contribute to the Academy’s CPD and Wellbeing offer

• Contribute to the wider Academy through Leadership and Senior Management Team meetings.

• Contribute to the SEND systems, policies and processes and be a named contact for SEND / LAC including SEMH progress

  
  Leading Students Experience - The Senior Assistant Principal will:

• Champion and lead innovative educational practices that enhance pupil experiences, focusing on safeguarding, behaviour, pastoral care, personal development, enrichment, and experiential learning inc. careers.

• Lead on assessment, recording, reporting, and evaluation of pupil data to ensure outstanding learning outcomes and personal growth.

• Lead initiatives that promote positive behaviour, safeguarding practices, and attendance, while integrating PSHE into the curriculum to support holistic pupil development, and be responsible for NEET data.

• Ensure all pupils have access to a broad, balanced, relevant, and challenging curriculum that is highly differentiated to meet individual needs and promote enrichment opportunities.

• Facilitate collaboration among class teachers, learning teams, and external professionals (e.g., Educational Psychologists, Speech Therapists) to support pupil development and wellbeing.

• Develop stimulating and challenging learning environments that foster effective learning, high standards of achievement, and positive behaviour.

• Ensure efficient systems are in place to support reporting and pupil progress while considering the impact on pupil experiences.

• As part of the leadership team, monitor, evaluate, and review classroom practices, managing improvement strategies that enhance pupil experiences and outcomes.

• Analyse and interpret academy data to inform and improve classroom practices, ensuring that pupil experiences are central to decision-making.

• Organise, monitor, and evaluate a range of intervention strategies throughout the academy, ensuring resources are effectively targeted towards pupils requiring additional support.

• Contribute to the monitoring of PD, Safeguarding and behaviour quality assurance and pupil achievements across the academy, collaborating with the Principal and leadership team to analyse performance data.

• Act as a role model for staff by setting high personal standards of practice, creating a stimulating and challenging learning environment that secures effective learning and promotes high standards of achievement, behaviour, and expectations.

Developing self and working with others - The Senior Assistant Principal will

• Manage positive working relationships with all staff

• Motivate and challenge all staff to maintain high expectations of behaviours

• Support the implementation of Academy procedures for staff induction, professional development and performance review

Managing the organisation - The Senior Assistant Principal will:

• Contribute to procedures to recruit and retain staff

• Deploy staff appropriately on a day to day basis within their setting

• Ensure that policies and practices take account of national and local policies and initiatives

• Manage environments to ensure that the Academy meets all health and safety regulations

• Support the self-evaluation process utilising a range of tasks to promote thorough self review

• Be involved in the implementation of Performance Management of colleagues and integrate this into their professional development

• In partnership with the Principal and Senior Vice Principal- organise, monitor and evaluate the work of those members of staff responsible for implementing personal development, behaviour and safeguarding strategies across the Academy

• As member of the Leadership Team share whole Academy responsibility for the pastoral care of pupils and staff

• Ensure staff are well informed of all aspects of Academy life in order to promote good communication and high morale. Encourage the practice of working as a team

• As a member of the Leadership Team help to maintain a secure, orderly and constructive break and lunchtime, while enhancing the student experience

• Be the strategic lead for enrichment and extra-curricular activities in the Academy

• Assist the Principal and Senior Vice Principal in maintaining and developing a positive and constructive partnership with parents and the local community

Securing accountability - The Senior Assistant Principal will:

• Manage staff roles and ensure that responsibilities are clearly defined, understood and agreed

• Provide information for the Principal and Senior Vice Principal or Governing body to enable them to meet their statutory responsibilities

• Present the Academy’s performance and other Academy initiatives to a range of audiences; parents, Governors, Academy Leadership team and other external agencies

Strengthening the community - The Senior Assistant Principal will:

• Work with other agencies to ensure learning experiences and opportunities for pupils are integrated into the wider community

• Build the reputation of the Academy with the outside community

• Create and maintain partnerships with parents and carers to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development

Safeguarding - The Senior Assistant Principal will:

Ensure that the child protection policies and procedures adopted by the governing body are fully implemented and followed by all staff

Ensure that sufficient resources and time are allocated to enable staff to discharge their child protection related responsibilities effectively

Efficient and effective deployment of resources - The Senior Assistant Principal will:

• Be aware of and respond appropriately to any health and safety issues raised by members of the team

• Coordinate aspects of Academy improvement

• Contribute and deploy staff for duties and other rotas

• Lead assemblies on a regular basis

• Ensure that they remain up to date on developments and issues with regard to student experiences at the Academy

• Contribute to the coordination of the in-house INSET programme

• Work with the Principal and Senior Vice Principal in establishing priorities for expenditure for the Academy, and in monitoring the effectiveness of spending and usage of resources

• Take on any additional responsibilities that might from time to time be determined by the Principal

Accountability - The Senior Assistant Principal will be:

• Responsible to the Principal and Senior Vice Principal

• Responsible for the direction of Assistant Principals and other leaders relating to Personal Development inc. careers, Behaviour and Safeguarding

Standard Duties in all Trust Job Description

• Show a commitment to diversity, equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices

• Show a commitment to ensuring that children and young people learn in a safe environment

• Participate in relevant and appropriate training and development as required.

Method of Working

Wellspring Academy Trust expects all staff to work effectively and cooperatively as part of a team, delivering high quality support. This requires dealing with people politely and tactfully, and in accordance with Trust guidelines, policies and procedures. Wellspring team members are expected to respect confidentiality and safeguarding practices at all times.

Public Relations

Considerable importance is attached to the public relations aspect of our work. Members of the team must project a positive image of the Trust at all times and through all activity.

DBS Certificate

Wellspring Academy Trust takes its duty to safeguard the young people with which it works seriously.

All Wellspring team members are required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Application forms must be completed. CVs will not be accepted. All applicants are required to complete the Equal Opportunities form. Please click link for further details http://bit.ly/WATEqualOpportunities

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview. Further pre-employment checks, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Academy recognises that it has a statutory and moral duty towards safeguarding the welfare of children, young people and, if appropriate, vulnerable adults who participate in any Trust activities and expects all staff to share this commitment.

An Enhanced DBS is required for this post.

Application forms must be completed in all instances, CVs will not be accepted.

To view our child protection and safeguarding policies please visit our website: https://beaconacademy.co.uk/

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About Beacon Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 623 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Beacon Academy website (opens in new tab)
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Beacon Academy opened on 1 September 2017 as part of the Wellspring Academy Trust. We are an exciting, expanding, inclusive and dynamic secondary academy which places the student at the heart of our provision.

Our distinctive ethos of ‘Human Scale Education’ sets us apart from other schools. At Beacon Academy your child will be known as an individual, supported and provided with opportunities to achieve academically and to develop as a young person.

Within our distinctive ethos we provide your child with opportunities, interventions and watch them thrive. We will continue to build upon solid foundations as an academy rated ‘Good’ by OFSTED. Regional champions in sports, poetry, photography and performing arts are just some examples of how your child will develop those crucial ‘soft skills’ needed to flourish in an ever changing world.

Parents are choosing Beacon Academy with the knowledge that not only is their child known as an individual and supported but academic progress is also at the heart of our provision.

Ultimately our students will leave as fully rounded young people, who in addition to their qualifications and references can present portfolios evidencing wider skills. This can range from building a rocket car to being an award winning member of a stage crew. Beacon Academy students, like the school itself, will have a Unique Selling point which makes them stand out from the crowd.

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