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Vice Principal

South Bank Utc, London, SW2 1QS

This job expired on 13 June 2022 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  13 June 2022 at 9am

• Date listed

  26 May 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: South Bank Academies pay scale L17£70,552 – L21 £77,011 per annum
• Additional allowances:

  Teachers’ Pension, perks and benefits package, free lunch (when community dining), employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, Specsavers eye care and on-site gym.

Vice Principal job summary

Job Description

The specific responsibilities of a leadership post are dependent upon the carousel of whole school responsibilities within the Senior Leadership Team and shall be negotiated periodically. Therefore, full responsibilities shall be prescribed at the time of appointment.

Core purpose

You will have a central role in leading the UTC, including at times deputising for the Principal and executing day-to-day management of the UTC. This includes working with the Executive Principal, and Assistant Vice Principals effectively, productively and efficiently. The precise details of the role will be negotiated but will involve setting and articulating high expectations; quality assuring teaching; ensuring robust and accurate tracking and performance data; ensuring the effective management and deployment of resources along with supporting and developing staff.

You will be working with the school advisory board and Trust leaders to ensure their vision is met, by ensuring the highest standards and expectations in teaching, learning, behaviour, leadership and financial management are promoted and achieved. You will contribute actively to the development of the SEF and Improvement Plan and will support the team in ensuring as far as possible that the UTC is ‘Ofsted-ready’. You will play a key role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all students by upholding policies including the Safeguarding policy.

In line with the 2015 National Standards of excellence for head teachers you will have delegated responsibilities in the following key areas:

Key responsibilities

 To work with the Executive Principal and Principal to secure and sustain high expectations
 To contribute to the UTC SEF and Improvement Plan.
 To work with the senior leadership team to lead, motivate, support, challenge and develop all staff to secure continual improvement; including her/his own continuing professional development.
 To work with the appropriate senior leader to ensure that the quality of teaching is consistently good and often outstanding to ensure high standards across all subjects.
 To help lead on pedagogical developments and research to develop a self-improving system.
 To ensure that learning is at the centre of strategic planning and resource management.
 To establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching.
 To ensure a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning.
 To demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set stretching targets for the whole school community, ensuring regular, appropriate and effective communication with stakeholders.
 To take a strategic role in the development of new and emerging technologies to enhance and extend the learning experience of pupils.
 To monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies.
 To challenge underperformance at all levels and ensure effective corrective action and follow up.
 To treat people fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect to create and maintain a positive school culture.
 To hold and articulate clear values and moral purpose, focused on providing a world class education for students at South Bank UTC.
 To lead by example, modelling positive behaviours and relationships.
 To work with political and financial astuteness, managing budgets and resources effectively to deliver the UTC’s vision.
 To communicate the UTC’s vision in a compelling manner, leading in a strategic manner.
 To collaborate with the Executive Principal, Principal, UTC and Trust leadership teams:

o to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the UTC;
o to ensure all staff are aware of, and follow, all UTC policies; and
o to establish quality assurance procedures for the all aspects of the work of the UTC.

 To discharge strategic and operational leadership duties effectively
 To assist with the production of the UTC Improvement Plan, the UTC Self Evaluation Process
and records, reports to stakeholders, returns to the DfE and outside agencies, and leadership of visits from the BDT and other strategic partners.
 To ensure the effective implementation of Personal and Professional Development within the teaching staff in order to raise staff expertise leading to greater engagement of students in their learning.
 To ensure that the development of cross-curricular skills are at the centre of lesson planning and curriculum delivery.
 To create an outward-facing culture, forming and building collaborative links with other schools and organisations including UTC sponsors and partners.
 To develop effective relationships with sponsors, partners and other stakeholders
 To ensure the UTC has a role in shaping the current and future quality of the teaching profession.
 To ensure the UTC inspires and influences others more widely than in schools, through innovations or partnerships which create community benefits.
 To demand high standards and ambition from students, overcoming disadvantage
 To secure a ‘sharing culture’ between staff, ensuring best practice is widely shared and celebrated, with talent developed from within the UTC.
 To develop and maintain effective strategies and procedures for staff induction, professional development and performance review.
 To ensure effective planning, allocation, support and evaluation of work undertaken by teams and individuals, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities
 To acknowledge the responsibilities and celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams
 To develop and maintain a culture of high expectations for self and for others and take appropriate action when performance is unsatisfactory
 To ensure that the performance management is rigorous, links clearly to staff personal and professional development, the development of learning in and across teams and cross-UTC professional learning and the UTC’s arrangements for pay progression
 To work alongside the senior leadership team to ensure the aspirational aims and objectives of the UTC are achieved.
 Deputising for the Principal when required and representing the UTC at meetings within or outside the UTC when required.
 Leading with the senior leadership team to develop and manage processes, systems and policies to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the UTC and present these in Staff Guidance materials
 Leading with the senior leadership team in establishing and monitoring the quality assurance procedures for all aspects of the UTC’s work to ensure that these quality assurance procedures will be part of the UTC staff guidance materials
 Leading with the Principal and other strategic partners to ensure the accuracy of the evidence base on which the following are based: performance management evidence, the UTC Improvement Plan, self-evaluation processes, reports to stakeholders, returns to the DfE and
outside agencies.
 Providing high quality line management to staff so that:

o teams are effectively led, managed and developed
o all students are successfully engaged in learning,
o all pupils reach high levels of attainment and achievement

 Providing well-informed advice regarding national developments related to Teaching, Learning, Standards, and the Effective Use of ICT and other resources for learning in engaging students in their learning is shared with the senior leadership team.
 Providing high quality challenge and leadership of mentoring and coaching to all the subject leaders to ensure that leadership and management, teaching for learning, curriculum resourcing and delivery, and care, welfare, guidance and support are outstanding.
 Leading with the senior leadership team in the planning, procurement and delivery of the UTC’s professional learning, development and leadership programmes for all staff.
 Ensuring there are effective partnership relationships with industrial partners liaising with the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Teams to provide learning support for students.
 Building and maintaining high levels of staff and student morale and motivation, securing their commitment to the aims, objectives and priorities of the UTC.
 Undertaking any other professional duties of that are reasonably delegated by the Principal or Executive Principal

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.

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About South Bank Utc

• School type: Free School, ages 14 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 204 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 14 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• Email address: abhiman.sathyamurthy@sbatrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/south-bank-utc (opens in new tab)

Thank you for your interest in this role at South Bank UTC. We are at a very exciting time in our journey as we continue to grow in both size and stature within the local and wider London educational landscape. We opened to students aged 14-19 in Brixton in September 2016 as a brand new school, and benefit from incredible specialist facilities that are the envy of many colleges and universities let alone schools. Close to central Brixton, we benefit from being in a vibrant, dynamic, rewarding and inspiring place to work, and enjoy excellent transport links. As we move forward and evolve as a specialist provision, we are currently consulting on becoming a 6th Form only Academy from September 2023 and are looking to incorporate a new Finance specialism into our curriculum.

Our vision is to develop young professionals with the skills and knowledge for successful careers in the engineering and health industries. We do this through a highly specialised curriculum and offer GCSE, BTEC and A-level provision. Our curriculum is supported via our core values of INNOVATION, INTEGRITY and INTENT; these help guide students and staff alike towards excellence.

Supporting our vision and values is our mission to maximise achievement through innovative teaching and learning and high quality partnerships with London South Bank University and our Industry partners including: Skanska; Essentia; Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS trust; and King’s College NHS trust. We are proud that our students benefit directly from real-life employer challenge projects, delivered alongside our sponsors and designed to develop authentic, contextualised learning. As a result, our students are motivated and highly engaged by the offer of a professional, mature learning environment. Not only do our young people have the opportunity to study high quality academic and technical qualifications, they learn valuable key employability skills to equip them for the modern workplace. Our students are also fully supported through high-quality, personalised pastoral care.

This role will require high levels of personal and professional commitment and the ability to work strategically alongside the operational demands of the role. This is a unique opportunity to lead and develop an exceptional UTC. We would love to hear from you if you feel you have the skills and expertise we need for this key role. Do contact me directly should you wish to discuss the role in more depth.

Dan Cundy – Executive Principal

dan.cundy@sbatrust.co.uk

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