Vice Principal
The Stephen Longfellow Academy
Leeds
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale Point (SCP L21-L25)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024 (or earlier if available)
- Apply by:
- 6 May 2024
Job overview
The Stephen Longfellow Academy are seeking to recruit to the role of Vice Principal – Teaching and Learning. This role is vital in developing the academy as a catalyst for social change, by improving the outcomes for students and being committed to supporting them through their learning journey.
The successful candidate will be a highly professional, collaborative, and motivational leader who will lead staff to having high aspirations for themselves and others. They will also have comprehensive experience in senior leadership, and will design and further develop an outstanding, innovative curriculum comprised of high quality vocational and academic options, suitability for all children with a broad range of starting points.
Whether you are a talented and proven leader or looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you.
What we can offer you:
As a trust, we have a great responsibility to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all which includes access to an Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and a range of other exciting benefits in keeping with employment at one of the highest performing educational trusts in the country.
About us:
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is an alternative provision setting based in the South of Leeds that has changed the face of alternative provision, both locally and nationally. Opened in September 2017, The Stephen Longfellow Academy serves schools across Leeds to support some of the most vulnerable young people in the city to re-engage with education by following a bespoke curriculum offer that reopens the doors of opportunity that were, at one point, firmly closed. Our exceptional team of staff create personalised pathways that combine an academically rich curriculum with personalised therapeutic support. This allows significant numbers of students to re-engage in mainstream education or successfully enter further education, employment or training.
Inspected in October 2019, inspectors told us that, ‘Leaders want the very best for pupils and have established an effective alternative provision in a short period of time. They are working together well to make this school even better for the benefit of its pupils and their families.’ They also judged all areas of the academy to be Good. We will continue to further improve our provision with this new and exciting role.
If you would like to know more about The Stephen Longfellow Academy, please visit our website at The Stephen Longfellow Academy
If you’re as excited about this role as we are, a Job Description / Person Specification and Application Form are available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), or by email to janine.findlay@stephenlongfellow.leeds.sch.uk.
Candidates are invited to visit the school to look around. If you wish to visit telephone 0113 468 5999.
CVs are not accepted.
Attached documents
About The Stephen Longfellow Academy
- The Stephen Longfellow Academy
- Phoenix House, Global Avenue, Leeds
- West Yorkshire
- LS11 8PG
- United Kingdom
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is part of The GORSE Academies Trust; a nationally renowned, not-for-profit charity whose drive is to create exceptional schools. The Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Stephen Longfellow Academy, Sir John Townsley, is passionate about providing the highest standard of educational experience for all children, regardless of background, across the age range. Sir John inspires professionals with his vision, a vision that all colleagues at the Stephen Longfellow Academy wholeheartedly share. We are exceptionally proud of what has been achieved since the academy’s inception and we are delighted to have been able to further increase the size of our provision.
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is named in honour of a man who died tragically in a climbing accident in 2015 and who made an enormous contribution to the lives of hundreds of vulnerable and disadvantaged children across the city. At the academy we offer both exceptional education and therapy. Students are taught national curriculum subjects and have access to a range of therapeutic services such as counselling. Therapy is delivered as both an integrated part of our timetable but also within discrete groups or on a 1:1 basis. We believe a therapeutic and nurturing approach allows our students to grow in confidence and increase their self-esteem so that they can successfully integrate into their learning environment and the wider community. By developing personalised learning programmes to meet the needs of vulnerable young people, we want all of our students to have the opportunities similar to those found in large mainstream schools, so that they can leave as confident young adults, ready to seize the opportunities of further education, training or work.
We work in close partnership with our families and commissioning schools to provide short and longer term interventions for students who are struggling to maintain a full time place at their mainstream school. Our aim is to do all we can to support pupils and their families to get back on track to achieving their goals and ambitions.
Our students receive outstanding pastoral care, support and guidance and we would expect any successful candidate to be of a mind-set where they believe anything is possible. Clearly, working in our academy will be demanding as well as very rewarding. We assure you that as our colleague you will be of great value and importance, an importance reflected in the quality of the professional development we are able to provide. If successful, you will enjoy the support and professional expertise that being a part of The GORSE Academies Trust affords.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Principal: Wayne Little
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