Vice Principal
Bruntcliffe Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS27 0LZThis job expired on 13 October 2023
Start date details
January 2024
Closing date
13 October 2023 at 9am
Date listed
29 September 2023
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale Point (SCP L21-L25)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Promote and model inspirational teaching and learning around all subjects.
- Manage pastoral care, student welfare, child protection and anti-bullying procedures effectively.
- Plan for progression across the age and ability range they teach, designing effective learning sequences within lessons and across series of lessons informed by secure subject/curriculum knowledge.
- Design opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy, ID and thinking and learning skills appropriate within their phase and context.
- Teach challenging, well-organised lessons and sequences of lessons across the age and ability range they teach in which they:
Ø Use an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources, including e-learning, which meet learners’ needs and take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion.
Ø Build on the prior knowledge and attainment of those they teach in order that learners meet learning objectives and make sustained progress
Ø Develop concepts and processes which enable learners to apply new knowledge, understanding and skills.
Ø Adapt their language to suit the learners they teach, introducing new ideas and concepts clearly, and using explanations, questions, discussions and plenaries effectively.
- Teach engaging and motivating lessons informed by well-grounded expectations of learners and designed to raise levels of attainment.
- Make effective use of an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives and monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment.
- Provide learners, colleagues, and carers with timely, accurate and constructive feedback on learners’ attainment, progress and areas of development.
- Support and guide learners so that they can reflect on their learning, identify the progress they have made, set positive targets for improvement and become successful independent learners.
- Use assessment as part of their teaching to diagnose learners’ needs, set realistic and challenging targets for improvement and plan future teaching.
What the school offers its staff
- Membership to a government pension scheme.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
- Free On-site parking
- Discounted RAC Membership
- Specsavers scheme
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Further details about the role
Bruntcliffe Academy are seeking to recruit to the role of Vice Principal. This role is of great importance to develop the academy as a catalyst for social change, improving the outcomes for students and the community as a whole and be committed to supporting the child through their learning journey from 11-16 and beyond.
The successful candidate will not only be a highly professional, collaborative, and motivational leader who will lead staff to having high aspirations for themselves and others but will also have comprehensive experience in senior leadership and will design and develop an outstanding, innovative curriculum comprised of high quality vocational and academic options.
Whether you are a talented and proven leader or looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bruntcliffe Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1365 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bruntcliffe Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@bruntcliffe.leeds.sch.uk
Bruntcliffe Academy, previously Bruntcliffe High School, joined The GORSE Academies Trust in September 2015. Along with The Morley Academy, Bruntcliffe is situated centrally in the town of Morley itself. Over the course of recent years Bruntcliffe High School had failed its children and a position had established itself whereby families living on the same streets in the town were receiving a totally different standard of secondary education. The examination outcomes of 2014 and 2015 placed Bruntcliffe High School in the bottom 10% of schools nationally for the achievement of its students. To look at those examination outcomes in detail please go to the Department for Education website. So concerned were parents regarding standards at the school that in September 2014 hundreds of them met to protest to the local authority and the school’s governing body. As a consequence of that action The GORSE Academies Trust was asked to sponsor the school. Bruntcliffe academy over the course of the last 5 academic years has been on an upward trajectory. Ofsted graded Bruntcliffe Academy as Good in 2018 with Teaching and Learning and Leadership and Management graded as Outstanding. Outcomes for young people have improved rapidly, placing the outcomes for young people in the top 13% of schools nationally in 2019.
Bruntcliffe Academy is now a large secondary school due to its improved reputation in the community we are now oversubscribed in all year groups and confident that this will be the case going forward. The majority of students are of white British heritage though the proportion who are classified as being disadvantaged is higher than the national average.
Under the exceptional leadership of its Principal, Laura Moore, the academy will continue to improve at a rapid pace making it an exciting place to work. We are also particularly excited about the current and future building work plans which will not only see improvements to the fabric of the building but also the aesthetics.
Arranging a visit to Bruntcliffe Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bruntcliffe.leeds.sch.uk.
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