Assistant Principal KS3 / Personal Development
Bolingbroke Academy
Wandsworth
- £57,844 - £62,982 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership 7 - 11
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2022
Job overview
Assistant Principal KS3 / Personal Development
An exciting opportunity has arisen for dedicated teacher to develop their experience within our passionate and ever courageous community.
We are a courageous, compassionate community - empowering excellence. We are a value lead organisation, being bold within every aspect of our lives at school.
We want all staff to thrive and model leadership and determination to the pupils and students within our rich and diverse community. We opened in 2012 with the vision to create a centre of excellence in the community.
We empower our teams by valuing the individual and ensuring personal development. This is delivered through weekly CPD sessions, frequent line management meetings and allowing staff to have their voice and develop their own ideas and projects. Our staff’s wellbeing is key to creating a friendly supportive community within the school. Guided by our internal wellbeing committee we have a wide range of initiatives designed to improve the motivation and lives of our staff.
The Role
The exact role and specific responsibilities of each Assistant Principal will be agreed annually and will change regularly, to afford each member of the Core Team the opportunity to gain experience in all aspects of school leadership in preparation for Headship.
As a member of the Core Team, the Assistant Principal will also be centrally involved in the overall leadership and management of the academy and will help to establish a school culture that is both nurturing and rigorous.
Reports to: Principal
Start date: September 2022
Salary: Leadership 7 (£57,844) - Leadership 11 (62,982)
Closing Date: 21st May 2022
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and Management
Working with and through the staff body to drive our house points system to ensure all young people thrive inside and outside the classroom.
Effectively manage and motivate the KS3 team (Head of Year and EBAacc KS3 leads) to empower pupils to deliver exceptional outcomes.
Work with the Teaching and Learning team to ensure excellent practice throughout KS3.
Alongside the Designated Safeguarding Lead, ensure the safeguarding of all pupils, with a specific remit for the safeguarding of KS3 students, and that the safety and wellbeing of pupils and staff is always promoted and maintained.
Participate in recruitment, selection and induction processes.
Manage any budgets allocated to the role effectively and efficiently.
Work closely with all staff to ensure the behaviour policy is implemented consistently across all KS3.
Ensure the personal development curriculum supports the pupil wellbeing and works alongside Head of Years to implement relevant and inspiring sessions including assemblies.
Coordinate and lead on all year 9 interventions and measure their impact.
Strategic Activities
Strategically ensure the KS2 – 3 transition process ensuring excellent induction for pupils, parents and staff teams.
Coordination of the KS3 strategy in line with the whole school vision.
Nurture your team and ensure annual pupil surveys are taken by all pupils. Empower all Head of Year’s to write review and support action plans.
Embed EE meetings to maximise communication across the key stage team ensuring pupils excel.
Drive quality Subject Empowering Excellence (EE) workbooks with the highest leverage action plans.
To support and contribute to the process of writing, implementing, evaluating and reviewing the annual Academy Development Plan, with understanding of its position and relevance in the cycle of school resourcing, improvement and long-term planning.
Devise strategies to secure ambitious outcomes across KS4.
Ensure rigorous monitoring, assessment and feedback across the curriculum to enable pupils to achieve FFT top 5% targets.
Ensure the KS3 visions reflects the academy’s direction.
Teaching and Learning
Strategic oversight of high-quality curriculum planning, assessments and quality assurance of teaching and learning for KS3.
Support the training and development of teaching staff to improve the quality of teaching and learning and raise the level of challenge in lessons within Bolingbroke Academy.
Teach outstanding lessons that motivate, inspire and improve student attainment.
Use regular assessments to monitor progress and set targets and respond accordingly to the results of such monitoring.
Ensure that all pupils achieve at chronological age level or, if well below level, make significant and continuing progress towards achieving their target level.
Maintain regular and productive communication with parents and report on progress, sanctions and rewards and all other communications.
School ethos and culture
Bolingbroke Academy’s has an ethos of high expectations, courage and compassion, we want staff to act as a role model for these practices.
Demonstrate high levels of ambition and optimism regarding what the Academy and its pupils can achieve.
We value difference and embrace the individual.
Set the right direction: create an effective vision and strategy that supports Ark and Bolingbroke’s values.
Model and lead others in embodying the academy’s culture and ethos influencing the buy in of others.
Support, work together and share best practices with other colleagues and professionals beyond the academy.
Person Specification
Essential Skills - Experience and Knowledge
Demonstrable evidence of raising aspirations and/or having directly impacted on the academic achievement of a group of young people.
Experience of implementing behaviour management strategies consistently and effectively.
Experience in effectively training and coaching other teachers.
Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards.
Excellent administration and organisational skills.
Able to skilfully manage and maintain effective working relationships with parents and other stakeholders.
Essential Skills – Personal Attributes
Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
Resilience and motivation to lead the academy through day-to-day challenges.
Able to skilfully manage and maintain effective working relationships with parents and other stakeholders.
Desirable skills
Experience of mentoring.
Management style that encourages participation, innovation and confidence.
Proven experience of working with young people from backgrounds of socio-economic disadvantage.
Other
Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.
Willingness to undertake training.
This post is subject to an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosure and 2 references
About Bolingbroke Academy
Bolingbroke Academy
Although we are privileged and proud to be part of the wider Ark network with the ethos and benefits that come with it we have our own culture and values that is at the heart of all that we do.
We are a courageous, compassionate community – empowering excellence.
Training Opportunities
Our HR and Teaching and Learning teams are dedicated to offering the best development for all staff joining the academy, challenging and supporting staff to excel in their roles. In order to deliver exceptional training, we offer twice as many training days as standard. For teaching staff, we offer weekly CPD sessions which are held on a vast array of topics and run by many staff all showcasing their expertise. To develop the trainers, we ensure all sessions are reviewed retrospectively providing feedback and suggesting presentation and content improvements. We also offer weekly line management for everyone, additional coaching sessions for new and trainee staff and a more regular and developmental appraisal system.
Wellbeing and Inclusion
At Bolingbroke we value the individual and encourage difference. To achieve this, we start with inclusive recruiting practices. Starting from our job descriptions to blind recruiting, structured shortlisting and scoring we ensure that all employees applying are only measured against their skills, achievements and values. We want all our employees to have a voice, these can be heard through the wellbeing committee or diversity group. The Diversity Group promotes diversity within the curriculum, pupil’s school experience and for staff whilst the Wellbeing committee consists of representatives from all departments in the school and highlights issues concerning the staff and supporting in creating achievable and beneficial solutions. All staff are involved in co-planning meaning their input into the curriculum and teaching strategies are implemented. An employee will also have a 360 aspect to all appraisals ensuring peer review and employees to contribute to their managers appraisals. The school is dedicated to training and develop their leaders and staff on diversity and inclusion through a programme of CPD sessions and online training.
We recognise our outstanding talent through half termly staff voted awards and our annual Above and Beyond award.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, Bolingbroke Academy will specialise in mathematics. We also have a strong focus on music, which helps develop self-expression, self-discipline, performance and team work as well as building a strong sense of community through collective participation. Our aim is for every pupil to play an instrument confidently and to take part in regular performances.
Be part of a network
Joining our school means becoming part of a network of education experts who are all united by the same purpose - a commitment to making a difference where it matters most. You will have the opportunity to come together with your peers locally, nationally and sometimes even internationally, to share resources, learning and good practice. You'll also be supported to focus on what you do best. We are always looking for ways to take away additional pressures, to give you more freedom to concentrate on improving education outcomes for young people. We offer support beyond the classroom; from prioritising strong behaviour management strategies to giving you access to our award-winning data management platform.
Ofsted
Bolingbroke Academy was inspected by Ofsted in December 2013 and was graded as "good". Read the full report here. You can also read our short 2018 inspection report here.
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