Assistant Principal
Hartshill Academy
Nuneaton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale 12 - 16
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 10 February 2023
Job overview
At the Midland Academies Trust, we protect and promote the mental, physical, intellectual, and emotional health of young people. We do this by ensuring they are safe, happy, and successful, enjoying the very best of what has been thought and said in an environment which builds their capacity to become leaders of the future.
Brief Job Description:
• To support the Principal on a daily basis.
• To work as a member of the Strategic Leadership Team.
• To oversee a team of staff in areas of responsibility.
• To set targets for areas of responsibility making use of qualitative and quantitative data.
• To lead the implementation of the academy’s policies.
• To ensure that communication to parents is professional and timely, enabling parents to be active partners in their children’s education.
• To provide effective CPD programme for all academy staff in areas of responsibility in line with MAT priorities and linked to individuals’ performance management.
• To ensure that recruitment of staff is managed professionally.
• To ensure that the academy is a safe and secure environment.
• To make a contribution to curriculum delivery in an area of personal specialism.
Joining our family of schools:
We regard ourselves as a family of schools - our staff work in close collaboration, sharing workload and learning from each other. As a family, we have agreed and common ways of working in many areas, driven by shared values and developed in partnership with our staff.
We are a local Trust - our academies are located a short drive from each other, and we proudly serve the communities of Nuneaton, Hartshill and Earl Shilton, educating over 3000 young people each year. Our staff are the single greatest resource we have in our mission of creating successful futures for all the pupils in our care.
We place high value on subject expertise and continual professional development. This academic year, our teaching staff will receive over 40 hours of subject specific professional development, including a commitment to all staff experiencing instructional coaching. We work hard to reduce staff workload and our academies have been awarded the Fair Workload Charter recognising our innovative work in this area.
This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS disclosure. Start dates will be conditional upon receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks.
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About Hartshill Academy
Hartshill Academy
Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Type: Mainstream School
Phase: Secondary
Funding status: State - Academy
Gender: Mixed
Age range: 11 - 16 years
About Hartshill Academy
Hartshill Academy is a secondary academy in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, for pupils aged 11-16.
Hartshill Academy is set in extensive grounds and the catchment covers very diverse urban and rural areas. This is a very exciting time for Hartshill Academy as we prepare for the move to our new building in September 2023. We are very fortunate to be one of the 50 schools chosen nationally as part of this project and we are all looking forward to the new opportunities this will bring.
Values and vision
At Hartshill Academy we have high expectations of ourselves. We practice kindness and gratitude every day. Our school HART values of Heart, Ambition, Respect and Tenacity underpin everything we do. We take time to reflect on our HART values and how we can develop each day. We want to ensure we are always challenging ourselves to be even better today than yesterday. We strive to practice perfect in everything we do. We know that our daily practices become our habits, our habits become our character and our character is who we are.
We have an aspirational knowledge rich curriculum for all pupils. Our staff work collaboratively to innovate and plan inspiring learning, enabling our pupils to leave Hartshill Academy with a lifelong love of learning. We ensure there is high challenge and high support for all pupils to ensure they can access and make excellent progress in all lessons. We work hard to ensure all pupils reach their full potential and leave Hartshill Academy with the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about their next steps. We have an excellent pastoral team who work closely with our families to ensure all pupils are supported so they can arrive to lessons ready to learn and make the most of the opportunities available to them each day.
Ofsted report
“Leaders have high aspirations for pupils at Hartshill Academy. They want all pupils to ‘be kind, work hard, and achieve’. Although leaders’ ambitions have not been fully achieved, pupils say that there is an increasingly positive environment in which to learn. Pupils welcome the clarity of the ‘HART’ values of Heart, Ambition, Respect and Tenacity. They say these values help them to focus on how to develop positively as young people. Pupils are well supported to gain insight into a broad range of work and employment opportunities.”
View Hartshill School’s latest Ofsted report
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