Vice Principal

Alsop High School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L4 6SH

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  5 March 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  10 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leadership

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Duties / Responsibilities for a Senior Leader at Alsop High School.

• Be a passionate and resilient leader within our school and model excellence every day
• Strategically lead a key remit across the school and ensure impacts are generated and measured
• Be highly visible every day
• Managing staff and resources to ensure excellence in provision and outcomes
• Support the development of school improvement and self-evaluation

School culture and behaviour

• Play a key part in the SLT drive to ensure all staff members to create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school experience
• Uphold educational standards and ensure we prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life
• Ensure a culture of staff professionalism
• Encourage high standards of behaviour from students, built on rules and routines that are understood by staff and students and clearly demonstrated by all adults in school
• Use consistent and fair approaches to managing behaviour, in line with the school’s behaviour policy

Teaching, curriculum and assessment

• Develop teams able to sustain high-quality teaching across all subjects and phases, based on evidence
• Ensure teaching is underpinned by subject expertise
• Lead faculties to ensure the teaching of a broad, structured and coherent curriculum
• Establish curriculum leadership, developing subject leaders with relevant expertise and access to professional networks and communities
• Use valid, reliable and proportionate approaches to assessing students’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum

Additional and Special Educational Needs and disabilities

• Promote a culture and practices that enables all students to access the curriculum
• Have ambitious expectations for all students with SEN and disabilities
• Make sure the school works effectively with parents, carers and professionals to identify additional needs and provide support and adaptation where appropriate
• Make sure the school fulfils statutory duties regarding the SEND code of practice.

Organisational Management and school improvement

• Establish and sustain the school’s ethos and strategic direction together with the governing board and through consultation with the school community
• Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies so the school can operate effectively
• Ensure staff and pupils’ safety and welfare through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of duty of care
• Manage staff with due attention to workload
• Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk
• Allocate financial resources appropriately, efficiently and effectively
• Identify problems and barriers to school effectiveness, and develop strategies for school improvement that are realistic, timely and suited to the school’s context
• Make sure these school improvement strategies are effectively implemented

Professional Development

• Ensure staff have access to appropriate, high standard professional development opportunities
• Keep up to date with developments in education
• Seek training and continuing professional development to meet needs

Governance, Accountability and Working in partnership

• Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, including accepting responsibility

• Ensure that staff understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account

• Ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties

• Work successfully with other schools and organisations

• Maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues to improve educational outcomes for all pupils

What the school offers its staff

Dear Applicant,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Alsop High School.

I am delighted that you are considering joining our community. Alsop High School is the largest secondary school in the vibrant city of Liverpool, with 1500 students across Key Stage 3-5. We have been at the heart of the Walton community for over 100 years.

As the Executive Principal of this warm and wonderful school, which is part of Omega MultiAcademy Trust, I feel both proud and privileged to lead our mission of ‘Achieving Excellence Together.’ At Alsop High School, excellence means seeking 1% improvements every day in all that we do, for both staff and students. We are looking for talented, committed and passionate colleagues to join us on this journey to excellence.

New colleagues often highlight the support from others and the team ethos is a real strength of our school. Built upon our three core values of Ambition, Respect, and Community and aligned with the Omega Multi-Academy Trust mission, we strive to provide the best possible school experience for every child and to be the best employer we can be. We consider the workload and wellbeing of our staff to be our greatest resource, which means that the we place a high value on managing the amount of work given to staff and ensuring that their overall wellbeing is considered.

I will always expect our staff to treat the children in our care as they would their own. One of my favourite quotes is, “children’s learning is not a rehearsal; they never get a second chance.” We want ambitious staff who are passionate about maintaining the highest standards every day to ensure that every moment of students learning is as effective and enriching as possible.

We aim to cultivate a warm, family-like work environment and seek to recruit and retain dynamic and inspirational staff who share our vision and commitment. As part of the Omega Multi-Academy Trust, colleagues benefit from strong collaboration, network opportunities and a broad and varied professional development programme at every level. We plan to "train staff so well that they can leave but treat them so well they don't want to.“

We can offer flexible working arrangements and a wide range of CPD opportunities for staff. While we love working in education, we recognise its challenges, which is why your wellbeing is always a priority for us, from emotional support to regular workload management.

As part of a trust, we offer all staff exclusive access to our wellbeing and benefits app “Omega MAT Plus+.” This app provides a gateway to a wide range of exciting benefits, including an Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 health and wellbeing support, access to GP video appointments and discounts and savings at many high street stores and big brands.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is essential, drawing from a range of talents, backgrounds and experiences and striving to represent the community we serve. Ultimately, it is the children and young people who will benefit the most, so this is the perfect opportunity to work in an innovative and creative school. We strongly encourage all potential applicants to visit us or get in touch for an informal conversation prior to the interview. We are happy to welcome visitors for an informal tour at any time.

This role is ideal for an exceptional person who can deputise when myself or the Head of School were not available, someone who can make decisions and lead with confidence. This is a school which offers the opportunity to make a difference to children who need you most,

I look forward to meeting you

James Kerfoot, Executive Princpal

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Vice Principal- AHS (1).pdf - 2.57 MB (opens in new tab)

About Alsop High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1490 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Alsop High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@omegamat.co.uk
• Phone number: 01512351200
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/alsop-high-school (opens in new tab)

PURPOSE

To provide professional leadership and management across all Departments and the curriculum in order to secure high quality teaching, effective use of resources and improve the standards of learning and achievement of all learners.

Arranging a visit to Alsop High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@omegamat.co.uk.

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