Vice Principal - Safeguarding (DSL), Behaviour and Attitudes
St Mark's Church of England Academy, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 1SF3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
27 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £78,000.00 - £85,091.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Inner London Pay Range (L14-18)
Vice Principal - Safeguarding (DSL), Behaviour and Attitudes job summary
This could not be a more exciting time to lead within the St Mark's family. Following our full graded Ofsted inspection in May 2024, St Mark’s CoE Academy achieved an Outstanding judgment in all areas of the framework. During the inspection, “pupils said the school’s values of Love, Hope and Trust are ‘not just words’ but are demonstrated by all members of the community.” Inspectors also reported that “working relationships between staff and pupils are warm, caring and respectful. This means that pupils behave exceptionally well and are very happy and safe.”
Outcomes at the Academy at Key Stage 4 are in the top 8% of all schools nationally with a Progress 8 Score of +0.71. In 2024 an impressive 68% of all A Levels were awarded A*-B grades, 92% A*-C grades and 30% of students securing a place at a Russell Group University. St Mark’s Value Added was +0.88, placing us as the second highest performing state Sixth Form in the country. If you believe you can uphold these exceptional standards, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for an inspiring leader with a passion for student behaviour and personal development, to uphold the highest standards of pupil behaviour and lead a transformational and targeted enrichment offer. The postholder will work with the Senior Leadership Team to actively promote effective behaviour strategies within the academy including leading on CPD in this area.
- Will contribute to the school’ pastoral programme, alongside the SVP and wider Leadership Team to actively promote the Academy’s Behaviour strategies
- Will drive the Academy’s behaviour policy to ensuring all students can reach their God-given potential, by assessing their barriers to learning
- Oversee the Progress Leaders, to embed a positive and consistent programme through Coaching Time
- Contribute to and support the Senior Leadership Team in achieving the Academy’s five school priorities, with particular focus on personal development and enrichment
- Will support St Mark’s vision of transformation for all, so that every child can realise their God-given potential
Believes in building strong relationships with our students and who is willing to go above and beyond to allow them to transform and live life in all its fullness.
Successful candidates will transform their practice through our instructional coaching offer. As one of 10 nationally selected Steplab Hub Schools, staff benefit from this expertly led programme underpinned by cutting edge research into cognitive science.
St Mark’s Church of England Academy is part of Anthem Schools Trust, a multi-academy trust serving over 8,000 children and young people in 16 schools across the East Midlands, London and the Thames Valley.
Full details of the responsibilities can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification for this post. Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted as received and therefore early application is strongly advised. Anthem Trust remains the right to close or extend this advert at any time.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.
It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’ and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 [Exceptions] Order 1975.
Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Mark's Church of England Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 880 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Mark's Church of England Academy website
St Mark’s Church of England Academy is a 11-18 Academy based in the South London borough of Merton. The Academy is rapidly improving as demonstrated by its rapid increase in GCSE headline figures. The Academy is a community founded on our key values of Trust, Hope and Love and these values permeate our school community.
The Academy is located on the outskirts of London and is well served by Mitcham Eastfields train station which runs regular services towards Central London and Sutton and Wimbledon.
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