Assistant Principal: Enrichment and Student Personal Development

PACA wishes to appoint an outstanding individual to join the leadership team to take on the role of Assistant Principal with responsibility for enrichment across the curriculum and student personal development.  This role includes taking responsibility to promote student wellbeing and school events and it comes with the expectation that the successful candidate will show the potential to take on wider leadership roles, in areas such as curriculum and teaching and learning, in future years.  This is a great opportunity to join a popular and growing school as well as being a stepping-stone towards headship.  The role includes responsibility for line managing a year group and a faculty.  The role has a 50% teaching load.

PACA has grown rapidly in the last 4 years, going from a school of under 500 to a school of near 1000 pupils.  This comes on the back of 3 successive years of strong results and the recruitment of a dynamic team of teachers.

PACA is part of the Aldridge Education Multi-Academy Trust and as such, the successful candidate will both benefit from and contribute to the MAT-wide support for schools, teachers and leadership.

The successful individual will be responsible for taking PACA’s wider learning offer to the next level, integrating enrichment across the curriculum as well as through extra-curricular activities, driving our careers programme, ensuring that students have a wide range of opportunities to develop their skills and experience to make them employable, overseeing PSHE and ensuring that PACA delivers on our equality and diversity agenda. A key theme for Aldridge Academies is Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.  As such, one of the themes for our wider curriculum work with students is promoting independence and creating a climate of enterprising achievement.

We are looking for a creative leader who:

• Has credibility as an outstanding practitioner
• Has exceptional leadership and communication skills and can create change through others
• Has a track record of driving forward improvements
• Is committed to developing a positive, enthusiastic learning culture for all staff and students
• Is intuitive, personable with a good sense of humor and strong sense of moral purpose
• Has strong evidence of being prepared for this pivotal role as a leader of improvement
• Can work closely with the Principal and Vice-Principal in shaping and implementing the strategic direction of the school community.

We can offer:

• A growing school on a journey to outstanding, fully staffed with teachers teaching their subject specialism, and with a track record of strong results.
• A dynamic, inclusive and happy school with a strong sense of community and exceptionally positive relationships.
• A culture in which learning is valued by staff, students and parents/carers.
• A school which places great value on the extended curriculum including STEM, Social Action, enterprise and entrepreneurship and enrichment, and which has the ambition to take this to a higher level.
• High quality professional development that includes involvement in national networks and across the multi-academy trust.
• An opportunity to shape the future for a whole generation of young people and beyond.

Visits from prospective applicants are welcome and can be arranged by contacting Sheila Cahill at: s.cahill@paca.uk.com

Portslade Aldridge Community Academy is an 11-16 state funded Academy.  We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  This post will be subject to enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please complete an application form, which can be downloaded from our website,  https://www.paca.uk.com/work-at-paca and send with a supporting letter outlining how your previous experience would enable you to fulfil this role and send to Sheila Cahill, Executive Assistant at s.cahill@paca.uk.com

The Principal reserves the right to interview an outstanding candidate prior to the closing date without notice.