Assistant Principal
Leigh Academy Molehill
Maidstone, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale commensurate with experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2023
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2023
Job overview
Molehill Primary Academy is looking to appoint an Assistant Principal to join the current Senior Leadership Team, contributing their energy and vision to drive the school to achieve its full potential. This is an excellent leadership opportunity and is ideal for those of you who are seeking career progression. The overarching purpose of the role is to provide professional leadership and management of Teaching and Learning across the school in order to raise standards of student attainment and achievement. This role would particularly suit a strong and ambitious Key Stage Leader seeking to take their experience to the next level, or a current Assistant Principal looking to develop a long term career within one of the most successful Multi Academy Trusts. You will receive the support and guidance you need to not only develop the school but also your own career within the supportive environment of the Trust.
The successful candidate will be:
- An enthusiastic and energetic Key Stage Leader or current Assistant Principal with proven successful Primary experience who is dedicated and resilient
- A motivational leader with high expectations of all staff
- A confident, inspirational leader who is able to communicate and deliver a clear vision for the school
- Committed to developing our children to reach their full potential regardless of background or circumstance
- Approachable and willing to work with staff across the Trust and Governors to implement strategies to move the school forward
- Able to develop and establish excellent relationships with the community and other stakeholders
In return we can offer:
- Excellent opportunities to develop your leadership skills within Molehill Primary Academy and the Leigh Academies Trust
- The opportunity to join an improving academy and make a difference to pupil progress and attainment with the support of a dedicated senior leadership team that is very supportive
- Opportunities to work closely with other Primary Leaders within the Leigh Academies Trust to share best practice
- We wish to hear from you if you are committed to changing our education world and are:
- An enthusiastic, energetic and ambitious leader with a successful track record at secondary level
- An motivational and inspirational leader with high expectations of staff
- Confident and able to communicate a clear vision for the school
- Able to develop children to reach their full potential regardless of background or circumstance
- Approachable and keen to work with staff across the Trust to ensure wide success
- Able to establish and develop excellent relationships with the community and other stakeholders.
Click here for the full Recruitment Pack.
On the basis that interested candidates will be keen to visit the academy before making a formal application, you can arrange this by contacting Laura Golding via contactus@molehillprimaryacademy.org.uk.
Visits will be offered throughout January and will be hosted by the Principal, Laura Smith. Please ensure you offer a range of dates when you are available in your initial email to ensure we can coordinate a visit that works for both you and the Principal.
Candidates wishing to have an initial conversation with the Principal about this role can also arrange for a telephone call. Those wishing to do so should also contact Laura Golding (as above) in the first instance.
Application closing date: Monday 30th January 2023
Shortlisting date: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Interview date: Monday 6th February 2023
If you have any queries on any aspect of the application process or need additional information, please contact Elene Redelinghuys (LAT Talent Team) via elene.redelinghuys@latrust.org.uk.
The academy is committed to safeguarding children and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Our commitment to safeguarding is underpinned by robust processes and checks which are in place across the Trust.
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About Leigh Academy Molehill
At Molehill Primary Academy we have created a culture that enables both pupils and staff to thrive and achieve their very best. The Academy was opened in 1954 to serve the southern part of the Shepway Estate and the roads leading to it. It caters for boys and girls from the age of three to eleven years. It stands on beautiful grounds which we have specifically developed to aid curriculum studies.
Relationships between staff at all levels, and the children, are highly positive and this creates a warm and vibrant atmosphere in lessons and during social times. With the support and guidance of leaders, teachers provide well-organised, calm and purposeful classrooms in which children can enjoy their learning challenges. The positive and caring ethos at Molehill is combined with a clear, relentless focus and an ambition that all pupils can and will achieve well, regardless of their different starting points. Teachers have embedded a culture of high expectations; we will all do whatever it takes to create better life opportunities for our pupils, they deserve the very best. We help support and develop one another in an open and supportive environment. This extends across the Trust, allowing us to work with other academies, either within the cluster or further afield, whilst still maintaining our own personality and driving our own priorities.
To enhance our curriculum delivery, we are an academy for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), an IB World School. This is an inquiry led framework that develops independent learners and posits personal success as essential for academic achievement, and learners who continue to thrive. We employ conferencing, high quality learning conversions and scaffolding with no written feedback, as our evaluation and feedback approach.
Principal
Laura Smith
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