Assistant Principal - Director of Vocational Studies
Strode College
Somerset
- Expired
- Salary:
- Up to £55k
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 5 May 2016
Job overview
Located on a modern and well-resourced campus in Street, Somerset, Strode College is a tertiary college serving a number of small towns and dispersed rural community in the Mendip District of Somerset, an area of outstanding natural beauty. With a significant majority of students in the 16-18 age group, the college is the largest provider of further education in the area and has a small but growing Higher Education offering. We also have an expanding number of apprenticeships and provide education and training for businesses.
Judged outstanding by Ofsted in October 2014, vocational students make outstanding progress on BTEC L3 courses and NVQ/VRQ students are highly successful in winning places at university or securing appropriate employment. We are not complacent, however, and are determined to build on this platform to provide an even better service to our local communities.
This is one of three Assistant Principal posts reporting directly to the Principal. Whilst a relentless commitment to excellence is a central feature of the role, sharing our values, particularly in terms of treating all our students as individual, is equally important. You’ll play a key part in ensuring that our reputation with partners, especially out partner schools, remains strong and that our curriculum continues to adapt and respond.
This is a significant career development opportunity for an ambitious education leader looking to expand their responsibilities and join a successful and highly-motivated senior team in a College that won’t settle for second best. If you are an outstanding teacher with a track record of successful leadership of a curriculum area and the ambition and drive to match that of the college – we would like to hear from you.
Closing date: Friday 6th May 2016 12.00 midday
Shortlisting: Will take place on the afternoon of 6th May 2016
Interviews: Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th May 2016
For more information please see our website or click on link below:
www.strode-college.ac.uk/recruitment_/v/205/p/531
Strode College, Church road, Street, BA16 0AB
About Strode College
Welcome to Strode College and thank you for taking an interest in our College.
We believe that every individual, no matter what their starting point, has the potential to achieve great things. We encourage all our students to be ambitious and believe they can succeed. We help them to realise their potential, maximise results and achieve success. This ethos runs through everything we do.
Highest quality further education
We are an Ofsted Good College located in Street, Somerset, offering a wide range of high quality education and training to the local community. Our Sixth Form has an outstanding reputation nationally for the exceptional progress that our students make. This means they are well prepared for future success, and we are incredibly proud of what our students go on to do after Strode College. In fact, we are one of the best performing colleges nationally for delivering outstanding student progress.
Highest quality university level education
We also offer high quality, local and affordable Higher Education. This quality has been recently externally validated by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education with a Silver Award in Teaching Excellence Framework, and we achieved the highest possible rating in our recent external quality review.
Adult courses for career development and leisure
As a local College, focused on supporting its community, we also provide a wide range of Adult courses. These include professional programmes for people looking to upskill within their current place of work or seek new skills for future careers and job opportunities. In addition, we offer leisure courses which you may want to take as a stepping stone onto a professional programme or just because it’s something you’re interested in!
Specialist work-based training
And finally, the College provides specialist work based training in the form of Apprenticeships and work related professional qualifications. Our dedicated Employer Engagement team works closely with local businesses to support them to meet their workforce development needs, translating this into a comprehensive training programme and also helping source new apprentices.
Enjoy an exceptional education
To sum up Strode College, it’s an amazing place to learn, with exceptional staff who are 100% committed to ensuring you achieve fantastic results, with an outstanding reputation locally and nationally; validated by our students’ achievements.
I’d like to invite you to come and see for yourself, so do please get in touch, we’ll be happy to show you around our fantastic college.
John Revill, Principal
View Strode College's latest Ofsted report
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