Vice Principal, Behaviour & Culture
Melbourn Village College, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 6EF12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
17 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
31 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £72,162.00 - £79,475.00 Annually (FTE)
Vice Principal, Behaviour & Culture job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious educational leader to make a real impact and help shape the future of our school community. Leading behaviour and culture across the school, you will work with our new Principal to drive rapid and sustained improvements.
This role is instrumental in supporting the Principal to achieve excellence in terms of students’ behaviour, attitudes and personal development. You will hold high standards for behaviour, underpinned by consistency and rigour. Leading on safeguarding across the school, you will ensure a robust, child-centred approach and embed best practice.
We are looking to recruit a professional who is passionate about education, someone who wants to play a key part in helping to shape the future for the Academy; someone who wants to: take ownership, drive quality assurance and lead from the front.
You will be someone who can maintain positive and effective professional relationships with colleagues, parents, governors and the local community.
You must be passionate about wanting to make a positive difference for our students. They will be at the heart of everything you do. You will have experience of senior leadership, be able to demonstrate your leadership impact and be able to promote our strong values in terms of behaviour expectations. This role will be instrumental in developing and maintaining a culture of high expectations and standards whilst recognising and rewarding students consistently.
As part of The Cam Academy Trust, you will be supported and challenged by a Trust team that drives for excellence and believes in investing in and empowering its leaders. This is an exciting time to join our ambitious trust at the start of our new five year strategy.
You will be a trust leader as well as a school leader. As well as leading a great school, the successful candidate will play an important role in our trust. Our senior leaders shape the future development of the trust and contribute to our strategy. We are collaborative and seek to work in meaningful partnership with others. This creates opportunities for our leaders.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity or to arrange a school visit please contact Neil Massie at Academicis on 07818 875514 or nmassie@academicis.co.uk.
We look forward to hearing 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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Melbourn Village College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 638 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Melbourn Village College website (opens in new tab)
Melbourn Village College is a successful 11-16 school with a strong community feel. At just over 600 pupils, our size enables all to flourish within a supportive environment, where each feels valued and empowered. Pupils are encouraged to continue their learning outside the classroom and a very high proportion get involved in the wide range of extra-curricular activities available to them. Our most recent OFSTED Inspection in September 2017 confirmed that we are a ‘good’ school which “has continued to improve the quality of education in the school” since our previous ‘Good’ judgement in May 2013. We are committed to improving what we do and aim to be outstanding
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