Vice Principal: Curriculum & Standards
The Valley Leadership Academy, Bacup, Lancashire, OL13 0TG5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Wednesday, 01 January 2025 or sooner if possible
Closing date
5 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £68,400 to £81,070 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
We are seeking an enthusiastic senior leader with demonstrably successful experience of securing whole school improvement in teaching, learning and academic outcomes.
Our Vice Principal will:
- Be values-driven and determined to improve the life chances of young people
- Be an excellent communicator who inspires staff, pupils and families.
- Model great teaching and know how to develop the pedagogical skills of colleagues.
- Understand the barriers impacting the progress of young people, and know the strategies to dismantle them.
- Be a systematic thinker who follows processes assiduously to embed educational excellence.
- Be an enthusiastic team player.
- Have the skills to build the capacity of colleagues to secure ongoing school improvement.
You will have:
- A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status
- Experience of senior leadership and management within a school setting
- Experience of successful and sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement
- A strong commitment to our STAR values.
What the school offers its staff
Star Academies is seeking a motivated and ambitious leader with a passion for curriculum development and teaching to become Vice Principal at The Valley Leadership Academy. If you are an inspirational role model, eager to make a positive, lasting difference to young people’s life chances, we want to hear from you.
About The Valley Leadership Academy
The Valley Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16year olds in Bacup. We joined Star Academies in 2019and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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.
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About The Valley Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 585 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Valley Leadership Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- daniel.burgess@staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 0330 313 9800
The Valley Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Bacup. We joined Star Academies in 2019 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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