Assistant Principal - Pastoral and Inclusion
East London Arts & Music Academy (ELAM)
London
- £57,002 - £66,113 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2022
Job overview
We are seeking a talented and inspiring Assistant Principal to lead on the pastoral and inclusion provision at East London Arts and Music (ELAM). Reporting to the Vice Principal for Values, Behaviour & Learning, the Assistant Principal for Pastoral and Inclusion will have strategic oversight over the shape and direction of our pastoral curriculum, the safeguarding of our Trainees as well as supporting their learning needs.
The Assistant Principal for Pastoral & Inclusion will line manage and support two pastoral leaders - the Wellbeing and Support Lead and the Progress and Development Lead. Together they will comprise the Safeguarding Team, with the Assistant Principal - Pastoral and Inclusion being the DSL (Designated Safeguarding Lead).
The Assistant Principal will be the college's SENDCo - working with the wider pastoral team to ensure that the learning needs and entitlements of our Trainees are met so that they can be supported to achieve their potential.
The Assistant Principal will be driven, highly motivated and committed to educational and pastoral excellence. They will understand the ‘interconnectedness’ of academic and pastoral life and ensure that the approach to pastoral support works in tandem with academic systems to ensure that our Trainees are happy, learning well and fulfilling their potential.
The Senior Leadership Team at ELAM is a supportive, collaborative and hard-working team. The Assistant Principal will share these values and have excellent communication skills, a commitment to improving life chances for young people and adopt a positive and ‘solution focused’ approach in their work.
Core role
- Maintain high expectations and standards of Trainee behaviour, attendance and punctuality through the implementation of clear systems, monitoring, celebrating success and impactful plans for improvement.
- Be a visible presence in lessons, assemblies and around the college, forging positive relationships with Trainees, promoting high expectations and a positive culture of support and inclusion.
- Monitor and track key attendance, behaviour and learning progress data regularly so that those in need of intervention are known to all key staff and a clear plan for support is implemented swiftly and with impact.
- Maintain oversight of Trainee specific action plans implemented by members of the Pastoral Team to ensure that support is timely and having impact.
- Oversee the development and delivery (via Tutors) of the tutorial programme and the Personal & Professional Development Programme (PPDP).
- Lead and craft the college’s academic and pastoral frameworks so that they are seen as interrelated and that all members of staff take responsibility for both the academic progress and the pastoral welfare of Trainees within these consistent, well established frameworks.
- Chair regular Pastoral Team meetings to ensure that information sharing regarding Trainee concerns is clear and effective and that actions for improvement have been allocated, implemented and are having impact.
- Develop and manage processes around monitoring of support for SEND and vulnerable Trainees allowing data and good practice to be shared and embedded.
- Ensure that Trainees with SEND needs are known to staff and that strategies for support and to remove barriers to learning have been shared and relevant training provided.
- Refine and deliver safeguarding training for staff.
- Maintain an up-to-date and accurate safeguarding training records.
- Refine the safeguarding referral process using CPOMS and ensure that all actions have been recorded.
- Chair a weekly safeguarding supervision meeting to discuss known safeguarding cases. Discuss and agree any escalations, update with new cases from disclosure referrals, explore new safeguarding concerns and agree/allocate next steps.
- Co-ordinate, in collaboration with the Vice Principal and through the line management of the Progress and Development Lead, a UCAS/Pathways programme to include information events and assemblies to raise awareness of pathways and to support those who wish to pursue a university pathway, through the UCAS process.
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About East London Arts & Music Academy (ELAM)
- East London Arts & Music Academy (ELAM)
- Maltings Close, Bromley by Bow
- London
- E3 3TA
- United Kingdom
ELAM is a world-class 16-19 Academy which opened in September 2014. ELAM offers young people everything that they will need to lead successful lives within the music, games design and film and television sectors. We are based in Bromley-by-Bow, have Trainees from every borough in London and we are diverse in every way.
Our vision is that all children in the uk should see themselves reflected in uk culture. To do this we see our role as recruiting talented young creatives who, once they succeed, would diversify and ensure the creative industries are more representative.
We believe this can be achieved by increasing the access routes into those industries for talented young people. However, unlike many other industries, it is not always clear how to get into these jobs and therefore there is often a lack of diversity within these sectors. Increasing the access routes to everyone will therefore increase the quality of talent and the continued growth of the sector long term.
Principal
Matt Sheldon
We don't do this alone
We have partnered with sector-leading organisations including YouTube, Universal Music, The BPI, Grain Media and Creative Assembly to devise a curriculum that will develop the future leaders of these sectors by meeting the relevant knowledge, skills and cultural demands. The involvement of these organisations sends a powerful message to young people that these careers are for them, they belong, that they can (and will) succeed.
Who is involved?
ELAM has been founded by a group of leading figures from industry and education. Will Kennard, Musician and one half of production duo Chase & Status, is a founder and governor. Alongside Will, the Governing body has senior executives from across the creative industries and education. We have support from a wide-range of partners from the music, film and games industries.
We work hard, we achieve high and we produce amazing creative products.
Our YouTube shows the range of talent that our Trainees have and develop - see ELAM’s vision in action here (our YouTube) and here (our most recent end of year showcasing website).
In addition, all trainees at ELAM undertake a study of Maths and English as we know written and spoken communication, problem solving, data analysis and research are the key traits of the leaders in these fields.
Ofsted report
East London Arts and Music has been judged outstanding in all categories when inspected.
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