Assistant Principal - Head of Sixth Form
Ark Putney Academy
Wandsworth
- £67,466 - £73,675 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark Leadership L12-16 (Inner London) £67,466- £73,675
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2023
- Apply by:
- 19 April 2023
Job overview
Working pattern: Full time
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Ark Leadership L12-16 (Inner London) £67,466- £73,675
Start date: 1 September 2023
About the role:
We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Principal – Head of Sixth Form. You will provide leadership for the sixth form, ensuring the academy’s goal of providing all students with a great education and real choices in life.
You will be responsible for ensuring outstanding pastoral support for students, fostering a culture that enables all students to maximise their achievements across the spectrum of school life. You will be instrumental in our mission to provide every student, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life.
About our school:
Ark Putney Academy opened in September 2012 as part of the Ark Schools network in the London Borough of Wandsworth. We’re a mixed school with 950 students, ranging from year 7 through to our successful sixth form, which has 200 students and is renowned in the local area.
In our November 2022 Ofsted inspection, we were rated ‘Good’ in every category with real strengths in teaching and learning, curriculum breadth and personal development.
Our student body is diverse and we celebrate all backgrounds and cultures. We have a strong ethos, results are excellent and every year we send large numbers of students to some of the best universities, including Oxbridge. We adopt a holistic view to educating young people. Through our commitment to inclusion, equality and attainment, we prepare every student to be a pillar of any community.
We offer:
· Tailored professional development based on the needs of the teacher and department to ensure everyone achieves their full potential.
· We take the wellbeing of our staff seriously as we recognise that teaching can be a challenging profession. Therefore, staff receive regular rewards and recognition for effort.
For questions about the position or an informal discussion, please contact the Principal, Alison Downey at a.downey@arkputneyacademy.org. For any other queries regarding your application, please contact Julie Rickard, Principal’s PA at j.rickard@arkputneyacademy.org
Apply online via our website: www.arkputney.org/vacancies.
Closing date for applications: 9.00am on Wednesday 19 April
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 25 April
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. To meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role.
Attached documents
About Ark Putney Academy
Ark Putney Academy is a mixed secondary school with sixth form in Putney, south-west London. The school has recently undergone a refurbishment and now boasts exceptional indoor and outdoor sports facilities, plus an arts centre, spacious classrooms and specialist teaching rooms.
Principal
Alison Downey
Values and vision
At Ark Putney we have a holistic view of educating young people. Our mission statement is;
Preparing every student to be a pillar of any community
By this we mean that we are focusing on developing students to be the very best they can be in all aspects of their lives not only through academic progress but also by developing the soft skills that will enable students to be successful in the world such as good manners and the ability to speak confidently combined with the desire to participate through sport, the arts and contributing to charity and community projects.
This can be illustrated by our core purpose, which is to provide students with:
- An appreciation and curiosity for life and learning
- The courage and ambition to unlock and fulfil their potential
- A desire to contribute to society in a positive way
- A sense of self –awareness, combined with the integrity to be compassionate towards others
The main drivers for this are our Six Pillars as listed below. These permeate academy life and can be seen in everything that we do, think and say at APA. They are also a focus of our assemblies, reflections and tutorial activities. They help to guide us in how we behave, what we do and what kind of people we want to be:
- Effort
- Team work
- Community
- Enthusiasm
- Commitment
- Independence
In March 2017, Ofsted rated the academy as good in every category and highlighted our students’ progress and achievement at GCSE and in sixth form. The full report can be read here.
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