9 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September

  • Closing date

    27 March 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    17 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Deputy 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

Full-time equivalent salary

£77,774-£85,396

Pay scale

L17-L21 (Outer London)

Additional allowances

Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an outstanding individual to join Harris Academy Purley as Vice Principal, with a key focus on Teaching and Learning.

The post of Vice Principal is one that mirrors the role of the Principal, and the academy will support you as you aspire to Principalship.

If you would like to have an informal discussion with the Principal prior to interview please contact H.Robins@harrispurley.org.uk. Interviews will be scheduled for week commencing 31st March 2025.

We would like to hear from you if you have:

  • QTS and a good undergraduate degree (or equivalent)
  • Minimum of three years' experience at senior leadership level, at least once as a deputy/ Vice Principal
  • Experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff
  • Proven success in raising achievement as a subject leader across at least two key stages
  • Evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance
  • Successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review
  • Good level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement
  • Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
  • Experience of presenting to a wide audience
  • Ideas of how Language, Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
  • Experience of embedding innovative strategies for improving teaching and learning in a whole school situation
  • Experience of managing and implementing change successfully at whole school level
  • Experience of using coaching as a model for ensuring on going professional development particularly with subject leaders


What the school offers its staff

Working at Harris Academy Purley, you will make a real difference to the lives of young people and their families in South London who value the learning and school environment we offer. Our school is oversubscribed; we have families, from a number of boroughs, who choose us for the high standard of education we provide, and staff come from across London as well as Sussex and Surrey to come and work with us.

You will be given ample opportunities to develop and progress your career, and all staff are encouraged to develop their interests and areas of expertise. Our professional development is tailored to ensure all staff are able to continue learning regardless of their role or stage of career.

We strive for excellence and have high ambitions for the future whilst ensuring we maintain a clear focus on staff wellbeing and work-life balance. Our motto: To Learn, To Think, To Act is as true for our staff as it is for our students, and we are committed to investing in your experience with us.

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.

We offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.


Further details about the role

Your specific responsibilities will cover leading on teaching, learning and assessment across the academy, providing the necessary Professional Learning opportunities to ensure the highest of standards are maintained in the classroom and in student outcomes.

As a member of the Academy Leadership Group, you will need to meet these general expectations:

  • To collaborate to build and realise the shared vision of excellence and high standards
  • To play a major role in determining strategy
  • To contribute actively towards the formulation and implementation of all academy policies and procedures
  • To agree challenging subject targets, and ensure rigorous monitoring, evaluation and review of progress towards these
  • To ensure high quality teaching and learning in line managed faculties
  • To manage delegated budgets effectively
  • To attend academy leadership meetings
  • To engage in the process of appointing new staff
  • To participate in duties lunch/break/before and after school
  • To contribute to assemblies
  • To share in the management of student disciplinary incidents
  • To actively participate in the monitoring, evaluation and review of teaching and learning in line managed faculties


Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Academy Purley

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1033 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
0208 681 1141

Harris Academy Purley is an oversubscribed 11-19 co-educational academy with currently 1050 students on roll, situated on the Croydon/Surrey border. Open since September 2009, we are judged Outstanding by Ofsted, and moved into a state-of-the-art new building in September 2012.

We are a happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat on another with care and respect, combining traditional values of discipline and good manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. The academy’s leadership team and staff share an expectation that each and every student who joins Harris Academy Purley achieves his or her “personal best”. With an emphasis on Enterprise, the academy strives each and every day to create a culture and ethos which promotes curiosity, initiative and leadership in all our young people.

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