Assistant Principal: Support & Intervention
Hele's School
Plymouth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Spine points 11 to 15
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2022
- Apply by:
- 27 January 2022
Job overview
Assistant Principal: Support and Intervention
Salary - Leadership Spine points 11 to 15
Required for 1st September 2022
This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious and collegiate Senior Leadership Team and to play a key role in driving forward our quest for sustained excellence. You would be joining a forward-thinking and supportive school, where colleagues are wholly committed to securing the best academic and personal development outcomes for our young people and the best opportunities for our staff.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate significant impact of successful school leadership and have the flexibility to complement the skills and experience of other team members. You must be prepared to ‘walk the talk’ and lead by example and be committed to the mantra that ‘people matter’.
- We are looking for someone who:
- Has a high level of emotional intelligence, excellent communication skills, and an ability to form good relationships with colleagues, students, parents and governors;
- Is able to share a vision, is receptive to change, can initiate new ideas and contribute to strategic development;
- Puts students at the heart of what drives their decision making to ensure that all students achieve their fullest;
- Has aspirational expectations for all students and colleagues, underpinned by a positive, ‘can do’ attitude;
- Will consistently exemplify excellence as a member of the leadership team and as a classroom practitioner;
- Is able to drive, build and sustain strong teams that challenge, motivate and empower others to deliver consistent, high quality results;
- able to maintain a sense of proportion and humour whilst working under pressure;
- Values every aspect of the life of the school.
Our commitment to you in return will be:
- You will be a valued member of Team Hele’s - a collegiate, hardworking and committed staff and governance dedicated to providing the best life chances for our students;
- An ethos of high aspiration for students and staff, and a culture that values personal relationships;
- A focus on curriculum, pedagogy and staff development;
- A wonderful student and parent community who are a pleasure to work with;
- Autonomy and support to play a key role in school improvement;
- Strong partnership working and superb opportunities for professional training and growth for leaders at all levels.
- A leadership (at school and trust level) that values our most important commodity – people – and that works honestly and openly with teaching and support staff to ensure staff wellbeing remains in high regard in every sense;
- A strong commitment to your pastoral care and your professional development to enable you to grow as a leader and support with preparation for the next stage of your career.
If you believe you have the energy, intellect, drive and commitment to take on this exceptional opportunity and join a Senior Leadership Team intent on taking what we believe to be a school oozing good features to even greater heights, then we would be very interested to hear from you. Please complete an application form together with a supporting statement outlining your suitability for the role. This should be a maximum of 3 sides of A4, font style: Calibri size 11. Your supporting statement should include your vision for this role and should provide evidence of how you meet the requirements of the job description and person specification, including:
- Your leadership skills, qualities and whole school experience that makes you an outstanding candidate for the post;
- Your vision for innovative and inspirational learning, support and progress;
- Strategies you have used to improve progress and learning in your current post, with specific examples of how you have challenged, supported and inspired colleagues, alongside an evaluation of impact;
- How this post fits into your overall career plan.
The closing date for this application is 9am on Thursday 27 January 2022.
Shortlisting will take place on Monday 31 January 2022.
Candidates informed of interview on Tuesday 1 February 2022.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 February 2022.
Further details and an application form can be obtained from the School’s website: www.heles.plymouth.sch.uk or by e-mailing: blakey@heles.plymouth.sch.uk
You may wish to visit the school to feel, hear and see for yourself what makes Hele’s such a special and exciting place to be. Please contact Mrs Verity Blakey (PA to the Principal) by e-mail on blakey@heles.plymouth.sch.uk or telephone 01752 334190 (direct line) should you wish to visit us during the working day; a warm welcome awaits you!
Attached documents
About Hele's School
A message from Justine Mason, Principal of Hele’s School
I take great pleasure in welcoming you to Hele’s School! We are a school with a tradition of academic excellence, high aspirations and a big heart. A school that students and staff are proud to attend. A school where we never compromise our insistence that everyone is valued, learns, enjoys and achieves. Expectations for staff and students are high, but very simple; work hard both to do things right and to do the right thing…even when no one is looking!
Our mission is to support and challenge each individual, adult or child, to be the best they can be. We have a ‘no excuses’ philosophy based on growth mindset principles, which reinforces our belief that all of us can always improve, and that nothing is impossible. Quite simply, it isn’t about being ‘the best’ at something, but being better than we were yesterday or today. It is for this reason that recognising and celebrating endeavour, as well as achievement, is something we hold dear.
We work hard at providing an inclusive, calm, and purposeful learning environment, and aim to ensure all students have opportunities to enrich their learning, to discover new skills and interests, and to master others through providing a breadth of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities to excite and engage young people, wherever their interests or aspirations may lie.
I am extremely proud to lead a dedicated and enthusiastic team of staff who are passionate about working with young people, and are committed to ensuring that those entrusted in our care get the best life chances possible. Everything we do is shaped by our determination to ensure that each and every child has a positive and memorable experience of school; that they thrive, flourish and, crucially, are happy. We focus on opportunities to develop teaching and learning at every turn and, importantly, teachers at Hele’s have a resolve to be the best they can be in the classroom; our core purpose being to remove barriers to learning so that young people can be inspired, can aspire and can achieve. In return we expect a buy in to our belief that we all have an active role to play in making our school a great place to be, which manifests itself in every child displaying the highest standards of commitment to learning, pride and care.
These are exciting times for our school. Being part of the Westcountry Schools Trust (WeST) - a family of forward-thinking, cross-phase schools within a Multi Academy Trust comprising 27 schools spanning Devon, Plymouth and Cornwall, 7 of which are Secondary Schools – our students and workforce benefit from being part of an active learning network. The capacity for shared school improvement, leadership development and collaboration is limitless. The WeST aspiration of ‘Every child in a great school’ sits well with the Hele’s vision (and vice-versa) and the strap line ‘Stronger together’ articulates our shared ambition to ensure that this aspiration becomes a reality.
There remains a strong commitment, professionalism and moral imperative amongst the Hele’s staff and Local Governing Body to ensure we provide the young people in our care with an educational and pastoral support experience that is first class in every aspect. We have a burning ambition and determination to put Hele’s firmly on the map locally, regionally and nationally and to be recognised as an outward-facing, aspirational and collegiate centre of excellence, which continues to be hungry for continuous improvement.
We would be delighted if you choose to share our journey towards and beyond excellence with us. With your support, we will build on the successes of Hele’s School to date and continue with our quest to not just meet, but to exceed, our aspiration to be a school that is beyond outstanding in every measure.
Please do take the time to explore our website to find out more about us, and don’t hesitate to contact us should you require any further information about our school. Better still, come and see us for yourself! We delight in showing people our school and rest assured that a very warm welcome awaits you. Visitors always comment on the purposeful, caring and happy ethos of the school, so what better way for you to find out more about our vision and values than to come and experience them first-hand?
We look forward to working with you in partnership in the future, and to welcoming you to Hele’s School.
A great place to learn. A great place to grow.
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