Vice Principal
Harris Junior Academy Carshalton, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 2NSThis job expired on 19 May 2025
Start date details
September
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £56,247-£61,787
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale (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
Harris Junior Academy Carshalton is looking for a Vice Principal who will closely monitor our children's learning as we continuously close achievement gaps and raise standards for all pupils above those expected nationally.
You will ensure the high quality of all provision, including contributing actively towards the formulation of all school policies and procedures and ensuring their consistent implementation across the academy. You will also lead on teaching and learning across the academy, as well as leading on leadership development, contributing significantly to the academy's Improvement Plan and playing a major role in determining strategy for the academy.
Qualifications
- Graduate (with a good degree) plus formal Teaching Qualification or other relevant professional studies.
- Evidence of continuous self-development and updated knowledge in the fields of teaching and learning and education management, particularly in the areas of responsibility for this post.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
- To be able to demonstrate a proven track record in producing high quality achievements for all children.
- Experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff.
- Evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance.
- Ability to provide professional leadership and management of a staff team and contribute to the work of other teams to secure high quality teaching effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement for all pupils across the academy.
- Experience of involvement in assessment, pupil tracking and record keeping and effective data analysis and target setting.
- Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development and 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.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and experience of presenting to a wide audience including teachers, managers, governors and parents.
- Knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and the National Curriculum.
- Evidence of successful working relationships with parents and carers, Governors, outside agencies and the local community.
- Experience of using coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development.
Special Abilities & Aptitudes
- Ability to be well organised, work under pressure whilst maintaining a positive approach to work and relationships with others.
- A high degree of organisational skills, decision making and use of initiative.
- The ability to motivate, support and encourage staff through a collaborative approach.
- Ability to oversee the pastoral welfare of children across the academy and to promote good behaviour and discipline.
- The aspirations, talent and enthusiasm to become a Principal.
What the school offers its staff
Harris Junior Academy Carshalton (HJAC) opened in September 2013.
We are a three-form entry school situated in Carshalton, which is part of the London Borough of Sutton. Our children, aged between 7 and 11 years of age, bring a wonderful amount of energy and enthusiasm to our school.
HJAC is very much a community school. We are inclusive and we strive to ensure that every child feels happy, valued and safe. At HJAC we know that a close partnership with parents is vital if children are to learn and grow as individuals. We therefore do all we can to keep parents informed and involved in school life.
We believe that through expert teaching and support all children can achieve to a high standard.
Our aim is to make sure that our pupils leave us thoroughly prepared for Secondary School and feeling that they have succeeded both academically and in the extracurricular aspects of Academy life.
We want all of our children to have a truly happy experience of school. Our pupils' achievements are celebrated every day in their lessons and we are proud that they are kind, caring, self-assured and eager to learn.
Senior Leader Development
With Harris, you will join a large network of likeminded senior leaders and have opportunities to learn from colleagues who are some of the best senior leaders in the country. Our senior leaders can benefit from tailored professional development programmes via the Harris Institute of Teaching and Leadership which will enable you to develop your pedagogy, leadership skills and drive school improvement.
Supported by experienced mentors, you can access national professional qualifications and draw on expert knowledge from dedicated subject consultants who offer invaluable subject and curriculum insight.
Benefits
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Teachers Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Flexible working opportunities
We are committed to fostering a positive and supportive working environment for our staff, recognising that achieving a balance between professional and personal responsibilities is essential. We understand that each individual's circumstances are unique, which is why we offer flexible working options that can be adapted to meet the needs of both the academy and our employees.
Further details about the role
Strategic Direction and Development:
- Be an integral part in leading the vision, ethos and policies of the academy which secures effective teaching and successful learning and promotes high levels of achievement and self-esteem for all pupils irrespective of background, ethnicity, gender or disability;
- Help lead and manage the creation and implementation of the academy Improvement Plan which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring pupils achieve high standards and make good progress, increasing teachers' effectiveness and securing school improvement and to take responsibility for appropriately delegated aspects of it;
- Establish the policies through which the academy's aims and objectives shall be achieved; in particular those pertaining to Teaching, Learning and Assessment and evaluating the effectiveness of these in view of pupil progress;
- Contribute to relevant sections of the Academy Evaluation Form;
- Ensure the effective and proficient use of pupil data from a variety of sources, both internal and external, in the process of target setting;
- Take a lead role in enhancing standards of teaching and learning and value enthusiasm and innovation in others to raise standards of individual pupil achievement;
- Lead on curriculum development, involving decisions on timetabling and staffing in conjunction with the Principal;
- Develop and maintain good relationships with parents, carers and outside agencies and the local community.
- Engage in the process of appointing new staff including the interview process.
Teaching and Learning:
- Undertake an appropriate teaching commitment and be one of our most effective and inspirational teachers;
- Liaise with all teachers to ensure pupils experience a programme that is personalised to their particular needs, identified through a robust assessment programme;
- Act as a role model for other teachers, model effective strategies in all aspects of school life;
- Monitor, evaluate and report on teaching and learning;
- Ensure that the curriculum is rich, vibrant, reflects the many different facets of our community and prepares pupils for the transition to secondary school so that they are able to fully participate in the secondary curriculum;
- Lead pupil progress systems and reviews across the academy, ensuring all pupils work and achieve to the maximum of their potential.
- Liaise with other academies/schools and providers to ensure continuity of support and learning when transferring pupils
Recording and Assessment:
- Monitor the effectiveness of assessment procedures throughout the academy through pupil progress reviews;
- Monitor teaching, planning, feedback opportunities, attendance, progress and attainment of pupils;
- Monitor pupils' standards and achievement against academy targets and National Benchmark
- Ensure that appropriate attainment exists for individual pupils and identified groups of pupils
Leadership:
- Play a full part in the life of the academy, to support its aims and ethos and encourage staff, pupils, parents and carers to follow this example;
- Have oversight of professional development across the whole school, working with teams and individuals to develop training opportunities and ensure good practice is developed and shared;
- Manage delegated budgets effectively;
- Line manage members of the teaching staff and other support staff as appropriate;
- Monitor progress, analysing results and taking appropriate action including liaising with the Leadership Team
- Ensure effective recruitment, deployment and impact of relevant staff
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Harris Junior Academy Carshalton
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 360 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harris Junior Academy Carshalton website
- Email address
- info@harrisjuniorcarshalton.org.uk
- Phone number
- 020 8647 7324
Harris Junior Academy Carshalton opened in September 2013. We are a three-form entry school situated in Carshalton, which is part of the London Borough of Sutton. Our children, aged between 7 and 11 years of age, bring a wonderful amount of energy and enthusiasm to our school.
We have more than 300 lively young minds at our Academy. Our dedicated teachers and support staff build on the children’s learning from the infant school to support each to be the best they can be.
Academy Ethos:
At Harris Junior Academy Carshalton we want our school to be a calm and caring learning community in which everyone feels safe, happy and valued.
We give each child all the time and attention that they need to develop their reading, writing and maths skills. We then build on this by providing the children with creative and vibrant learning experiences through which they will develop a love of learning, an ability to think independently and a desire to be the best they can be.
We want our children to leave HJAC as confident and successful learners, who understand themselves and are responsible in the way they conduct themselves. We want them to possess the skills and attitudes to make the most of future opportunities and to contribute to their local community and beyond.
Why work at Harris Junior Academy Carshalton?
Children who bring a wonderful amount of energy and enthusiasm to the school, and who are kind, caring, self-assured and eager to learn
A team of expert teaching and support staff who believe all children can achieve to a high standard
A strong relationship with parents, carers and the local community
A community school ethos with all the advantages of a successful academy group, including a strong central team of support, teaching and leadership staff
Generous Harris rewards and benefits package
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