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Vice Principal

Harris Primary Academy Purley Way, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 4FE

This job expired on 14 December 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  Negotiable

• Closing date

  14 December 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 December 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: Directed
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £64,229-£72,144
• Pay scale: L11-L16 (Outer London)
• Additional allowances:

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

What skills and experience we're looking for

Harris Primary Academy Purley Way is looking for a Vice Principal.

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 QTS
• Evidence of continuous self-development and updated knowledge in the fields of teaching and learning and education management

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
• 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.

What the school offers its staff

Harris Primary Academy Purley Way has been open since 2016 and is Ofsted rated 'Outstanding' in all areas. At full capacity there will be 21 classes from Reception to Year 6. We opened with a Reception cohort and are growing by a year group at a time with currently over 430 pupils on roll from Reception to Year 6.

The whole community strive for Harris Primary Academy Purley Way to be the best it can possibly be which is encapsulated by our vision statement: “Excellence for All”. Our core values of: Positivity, Ambition and Growth, underpin everything that happens in our academy and we have high expectations that these are followed and modelled by all staff, parents and children.

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 look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also 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

Strategic Direction and Development:

• Be an integral part in leading the vision, ethos and policies of the academy
• Help lead and manage the creation and implementation of the academy Improvement Plan
• Establish the policies through which the academy's aims and objectives shall be achieved
• Contribute to relevant sections of the Academy Evaluation Form;
• Ensure the effective and proficient use of pupil data
• Take a lead role in enhancing standards of teaching and learning
• Lead on curriculum development
• Develop and maintain good relationships with parents, carers and outside agencies and the local community
• Engage in the process of appointing new staff

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
• Act as a role model for other teachers
• 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
• Lead pupil progress systems and reviews across the academy
• 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
• Monitor teaching, planning, feedback opportunities, attendance, progress and attainment of pupils
• Monitor pupils' standards and achievement
• Ensure that appropriate attainment exists

Leadership:

• Play a full part in the life of the academy
• Have oversight of professional development across the whole school
• 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.

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About Harris Primary Academy Purley Way

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 487 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Harris Primary Academy Purley Way website
• Email address: info@harrisprimarypurleyway.org.uk
• Phone number: 020 3872 1970
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-primary-academy-purley-way

Harris Primary Academy Purley Way opened in 2016 with its first cohort of Reception children and their families, and now educates children from Reception to Year 2. Since 2017, the academy has been based in purpose built, three storey building, with state of the art technology and resources and facilities to support the school on its journey to Outstanding. Harris Primary Academy Purley Way will grow year on year to provide classes from Reception to Year 6 and offer three forms of entry by 2022.

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