Assistant Principal
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Derbyshire
- £60,488 - £66,629 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L11 - 15
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2024
- Apply by:
- 5 October 2023
Job overview
Assistant Principal
L11 - L15 £60,488 - £66,629
Full Time, Permanent, to start January 2024
Following the successful promotion of the previous postholder to another academy within the multi-academy trust, we are looking to appoint an ambitious and highly effective Assistant Principal to support the academy in its drive to continue its growth as an exceptional education provider for our students, staff, families and wider community. Senior leaders' portfolios are broad and interchangeable with the opportunity to develop in a full range of responsibilities. For this academic year this vacancy will focus specifically on wider student experiences, including but not limited to:
- Outcomes for disadvantaged students, including management of pupil premium funding
- Careers, advice and guidance
- Educational trips and visits including compliance, risk assessment and training
- Extra-curricular experiences and community partnerships
- Personal development, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Coordination of the house system
- Celebration of achievements
We are looking for a leader who is dynamic, inspirational, and passionate. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following core values:
- Excellent interpersonal skills to lead, motivate and inspire both staff and students to reach the highest levels of achievement
- A set of personal characteristics and ambitions which align with that of the Principal and senior leadership team
- Evidence of impact towards school improvement through sustained work at leadership level
- The ability to operate at a strategic level with clear ideas for how our academy can continue to grow, thrive and excel in the years ahead
- The ability to work at pace and manage the demands of strategic and operational thinking in a challenging environment.
Senior leaders are expected to contribute to all aspects of school life including a deliberate focus on providing a visible presence around the academy site. This specific role will assume responsibility for wider student experiences and ensure students from all backgrounds thrive and access the very best information, guidance and experience to maximise their experience at school and beyond.
Candidates will need to demonstrate:
- Strong knowledge of the national and local agenda around raising achievement and opportunities for disadvantaged students
- Strong knowledge of the national careers agenda, including the Gatsby Benchmarks, the increasing need to expose students to meaningful employability opportunities and competitive destinations
- Strong knowledge of the statutory guidance around PHSE, SMSC and RE and the need to prepare our students for modern Britain
- Immaculate logistical / organisational skills in order to manage both the academy’s immersion days and educational visits.
Due to the strength and flexibility of existing senior leaders, candidates from all areas of school responsibility are welcome, including existing senior leaders or outstanding middle leaders with either curriculum or pastoral backgrounds.
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy is an ‘Outstanding’ secondary school and sixth form (Ofsted, June 2023) which is oversubscribed in Year 7 for the second successive year. We are extremely proud of our inspection report which is a testament to 7 years of school improvement. It states that ”teachers are subject experts”, “pupils are ambitious about their future”, “classrooms are calm places, where pupils focus on their learning” and “leaders are relentless in their desire to provide the absolute best education for all pupils and to serve the local community”.
Read more about our Outstanding Ofsted report here: http://heanorgatespencer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/10268033-Heanor-Gate-Spencer-Academy-137606-Final.pdf
SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 16 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission: Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision: Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe:
- All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development
- Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership
- We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
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For more information on this post please contact Claire Worth, PA to the Principal, claireworth@heanorgatespencer.com or 01773 716396.
In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for, prior to interview.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon Thursday 5 October 2023
Interviews taking place: 12 -13 October 2023
Our application deadline may end earlier where we have received a high and early positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as early as possible.
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.
Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
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About Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Heanor is a small town, situated on the edge of the Peak District National Park and the Derwent Valley World Heritage site within easy reach of Derby, Nottingham and the M1. The school is located in the south-west of the town and its catchment area includes most of Heanor and nearby Loscoe, along with the rural parishes of Smalley, Shipley, Horsley Woodhouse and Morley. The school is popular, with a number of our students coming from outside the catchment area.
At Heanor Gate Spencer Academy, we are very proud of our strong reputation in the community. We will endeavour to continually improve in all aspects of the education we provide and become an outstanding school that everyone can be proud of. Our new school ethos of ‘Aspire, Learn and Achieve’ will permeate throughout everything we do and is a shared vision that every member of the school community can buy into. We will insist on the very highest standards for all of the students in our care.
Our aims for the school are to DEVELOP ALL LEARNERS TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL and to CREATE A CULTURE OF ASPIRATION. This is what we all firmly believe in and strive to achieve at all times.
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy has a genuinely comprehensive intake. The eclectic mix of backgrounds makes for a lively, friendly and engaging atmosphere. Parents, visitors, supply teachers and student teachers regularly comment on the calm, purposeful and welcoming environment. Staff and students enjoy working here and as a consequence low staff turnover and a low permanent exclusion rate are defining features of the school.
Teaching and learning is fundamental to our success. We aim to offer the highest quality opportunities for teaching and learning and to develop our staff as outstanding practitioners. We have a clear structure to support teaching and learning in school and robust systems of monitoring and reviewing the success of each curriculum team.
As one of the first converter Academies in the country, a Leading Edge and a co-founder of Challenge Partners we are at the forefront of innovation, individualised learning and teaching excellence. Our designations as an approved Academy Sponsor, National Support School, Teaching School and licensee of the National College’s leadership development programmes reflects the extent of our contribution to system-wide improvement and builds on our excellent reputation for the training and development of teachers and leaders.
A key component of our everyday work is, of course, ensuring that high quality learning is experienced every day within the school; by every student, in every subject and in every lesson. Alongside this we recognise that all students have a range of social, emotional and personal needs that may require support. To this end, Heanor Gate School also gives great weight to the importance of an effective induction programme and on-going guidance for each student in order to try to ensure that each young person is both happy and successful with an Achievement team and tutors that will challenge and support every student to reach their potential.
We value our staff as an essential part of our success and are committed therefore to providing outstanding opportunities for staff development, not only through high quality Inset days, but also within curriculum and pastoral teams and through the Teaching and Learning Coaching Team. All middle and senior leaders are offered the opportunity to take part in NCSL initiatives. There is a dedicated programme of support and continuing professional development for NQTs. In addition, we work in partnership with a number of local universities for Initial Teacher Training and are committed to supporting these beginning teachers in their career.
The success of any school is of course dependent on the contribution made by everyone connected with the school. We are very lucky to have staff who are hard working, committed and willing to go that extra mile, parents who are very supportive and work with the school to ensure their children strive to achieve their best, governors who have the best interests of the school at heart and are actively involved with the school and students who are proud of the school. All of these are a major factor in the school’s success.
We are looking to appoint a talented, committed and hard-working individual who will make a difference to the lives of young people. You will be expected to get involved in all aspects of school life and establish yourself as a valued colleague in the school community. If you are up to the challenge then we look forward to receiving your application.
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