Principal
Coleridge Community College
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2023
Job overview
The Vacancy
Coleridge Community College is a Secondary Academy in the heart of Cambridge. As a 4FE Secondary school for in Years 7 to 11, Coleridge is the perfect size to balance an inclusive and caring school environment, with a broad curriculum offer and exciting range of opportunities for all pupils. The school has all the foundations for success, with high quality teaching, a strong commitment to education with character and a vibrant school community.
We are looking for a Senior Leader with the vision and ambition to continue to improve standards and outcomes at the school, with the empathy and strength of leadership to bring pupils, parents and staff with them. This is an academy brimming with potential and we are looking for a Principal that can make this the school of choice for local families.
United Learning is a big group of schools – with over 60,000 pupils and more than 9,000 staff – so we have the capacity to support you educationally and operationally. At the same time, we are values-led and base all that we do on good relationships, so you will be joining a big family. Reporting directly to the Regional Director, you will be supported both personally and professionally, benefitting from the strength of a national group supporting your development and that of your staff and school.
We are committed to fairness, diversity and inclusion. We are currently working hard to improve representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders at headship level and to raise our proportion of women leaders to match their representation in our wider workforce. Whoever you are, if you have a strong track record of improving young people’s education and a drive to do more, we very much look forward to hearing from you.
If you are looking for an exciting and highly rewarding role within a Group that offers excellent professional development, and if you have a strong commitment to improving the lives of all young people, we encourage you to visit us.
Further information
If you would like to arrange an informal visit to the school or have a confidential discussion about the role with the Regional Director, please contact Beth Walker beth.walker@unitedlearning.org.uk
United Learning
We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.
Attached documents
About Coleridge Community College
- Coleridge Community College
- Radegund Road, Cambridge
- Cambridgeshire
- CB1 3RJ
- United Kingdom
“Coleridge Community College is a small, family and community orientated school in Cambridge. It’s a school where every child and staff member is known, developed and supported. We value our staff highly and treat workload seriously.
We are looking for someone that shares these values and passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background or needs. We are looking for the right people to join our team. The post holder will be required to work in partnership with the Principal to bring about continuous improvement of the school in order to ensure high standards of academic achievement for pupils, high quality teaching and learning experiences for pupils and high standards of behaviour in lessons and around the school.
You will be joining a school that is ambitious for its future as well as the future of all its students and so are looking for colleagues who share that ambition and are uncompromising in their commitment to doing what it takes to secure the potential of the young people here.
Our most important purpose is to teach young people things they would not learn outside school which empower them. We believe that ‘Knowledge Is Power’. We have high expectations and standards, and we teach through explicit/direct instruction (using the Rosenshine Principles) and utilising TLAC 3.0 techniques. In this way, we achieve strong GCSE outcomes, excellent student conduct and a feeling of community throughout the College.
Our mission is to bring out ‘the best in everyone’. We are unashamedly ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We also believe in ‘Education with Character’ – we want young people to look back on a schooling that has inspired and challenged them, given them wide opportunity and prepared them for the ups and downs of life.”
United Learning Cambridge Cluster
We are part of a cluster of schools within the United Learning group: The Galfrid School, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, Parkside Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.
We embrace United Learning aim to offer a life changing education to children and young people, and we work as a team to achieve more than any single school could.
We share knowledge and resource within the cluster and the group to simplify work processes and manage workloads to achieve excellent results while improving work-life balance. As a cluster and as a group, we can look after our staff better.
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