Vice Principal
The Belvedere Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L8 3TFThis job expired on 8 March 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
8 March 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
8 February 2024
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint a dynamic, energetic, committed and experienced Senior Leader to join our Senior Leadership Team. This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to play a substantial part in driving forward a highly successful and over-subscribed outstanding academy.
If you wish to be the successful candidate, you will be ambitious - both for our pupils and staff and personally; and you will be ready to make a real difference to the educational experience and outcomes of our pupils. You should be person-centered and committed to building relationships and enhancing the sense of belonging that Belvedere pupils, staff and families have to the thriving academy community and to the GDST. You should be self-motivated and self-reliant and be ready to be flexible to meet the academy’s needs. You should also be able to demonstrate where you have shown the ability to innovate and to sustain the positive impact that your work has had on the pupils and staff of your current school.
Please see application pack for job description and person specification.
What the school offers its staff
- Generous holiday (14 days extra per year for teaching staff)
- Email curfew 5pm-7am (unless there are safeguarding/wellbeing concerns)
- Employee Assistance Programme (AXA)
- Weekly CPD sessions
- Principal has an open door policy
- Staff Enrichment
- Flexible approach to family appointments and child events
- More PPA than the local average
- Half-termly wellbeing events organised by Wellbeing Committee includingseasonal treats, bacon sandwiches, fortnightly toast, annual Christmas lunch and other staff events
- Parcel collection point
- Half-termly staff voice group
- On-site parking
- Mental Health Coordinator
- HUB groups and HUB breakfasts
- High priority in our Y7 admissions process (see Admissions Policy on ourwebsite)
Further details about the role
Belvedere was the first independent school to become an academy and is continuing the traditions and standards of its predecessor school. We were judged outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in January 2015. We have high expectations of all our students and we support them with excellent pastoral care. Our extensive Enrichment programme allows students to develop into well rounded individuals. Children of our staff have a higher priority in our Y7 admissions process - please see the Admissions Policy on our website or call the academy office for further details.
The Belvedere Academy and the GDST are committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
The Belvedere Academy and the GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection checks appropriate to the post, including online searches, and checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
To find out more and obtain an information pack please visit our website at www.belvedereacademy.net email: jobs@belvedereacademy.net or telephone 0151 727 1284
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.
About The Belvedere Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1106 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Belvedere Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@belvedereacademy.net
- Phone number
- 0151 727 1284
Arranging a visit to The Belvedere Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@belvedereacademy.net.
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