Vice Principal

Highgate Primary Academy, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 9AS

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  13 May 2024 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  24 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £55,910.00 - £61,697.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership 7 - 11

Vice Principal job summary

Are you ambitious for all children and passionate about helping them to flourish and achieve their very best in all aspects of school life and beyond? Join us as Vice Principal at Highgate Primary Academy and make a real difference.

We are looking for someone who is committed to a knowledge-rich education, with a track record of leading schools to high levels of attainment and with outstanding learning behaviours. Alongside the academic curriculum, the Trust also aspires to develop cultural capital and opportunities for personal development that enable the Trust’s pupils to leave our schools equipped for their next educational and life stage.

The successful candidate will embrace the opportunity to work with Trust and school leaders, to drive the further development and implementation Astrea’s curriculum strategies across all of our Primary schools.

We look forward to hearing from you if you:

• Are passionate, enthusiastic, motivated and ambitious with a track record of success
• Have high expectations of staff, and can encourage participation, innovation and confidence
• Can communicate a clear strategic vision and direction for the school
• Are able to support children to reach their full potential regardless of background or circumstance
• Have experience of being influential in a school that provides an excellent education for its pupils.

In return we can offer you:

• A dedicated team with high ambition for their pupils
• The support and expertise of a Principal and Regional Director
• The opportunity to complete NPQs
• An unrivalled professional progression model.

If you are a passionate, authentic and driven leader who has high expectations and aspirations and believes that we have a collective responsibility for our pupils please contact laura.sunley@astreahighgate.org to discuss the opportunity further.

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks. 

If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and staff. Every child should feel safe and should be protected from any form of child abuse. We have robust policies and procedures that support our commitment to Safeguarding, this includes our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. The in-house Safeguarding teams at each Academy work in partnership with families and safeguarding partners to ensure the safety of children is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that all staff access regular, contextual safeguarding training to meet the needs of the local community.

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About Highgate Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 351 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Highgate Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
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We have high hopes for our pupils, and this is expressed in our vision of Making a Difference; To ourselves; To each other; To the World We Live In.

It’s important to us that children enjoy the time they spend here; but we also want them to achieve the very best they can. Our aim is to provide a learning experience that will help all children make rapid progress, whatever their starting point. We want to provide our children with the best possible start in life and help them acquire the skills, knowledge and understanding and ambition to prepare them for life beyond the classroom.

It’s vital that we work closely with parents and carers, and mutual trust and understanding are central to our shared responsibility for the education of your child. We encourage you to take an active interest in your child’s education and in school life; your contribution is valued and important. Our school is bursting with potential, and we are eager to capitalise on this energy – working closely with our partners, our community, carers and parents.

We are delighted to now be a part of the Astrea Academy Trust. The Astrea vision enables individual academies to flourish with real autonomy, whilst also ensuring a strong ethos of support and collaboration.

We want our academy to be a fun and exciting place where children thrive upon success.

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