Principal

Principal

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits package

Location: Cambridge

Closing date: 9am on Thursday 20th April 2023

The Vacancy

Thank you very much for your interest in becoming Principal of Parkside Community College.

Parkside Community College is a beacon of academic excellence in the centre of Cambridge. It is a highly popular, co-educational, non-selective, 11-18 academy with 800 pupils. The school has a well-deserved reputation for strong academic progress and empowering pupils to excel in the classroom and beyond.

The school values of Excellence, Community and Responsibility are evident in all aspects of school life and create a culture where every child can experience real success.

This is a career-defining opportunity for a Head with the vision to lead the academy into its next chapter, as an extraordinary school with a national reputation for excellence. The school’s new leader will bring a strong track record and the ambition to challenge what is possible for the school – making it a leading centre for exceptional teaching, further developing the sixth form offer, and extending the school’s reach and impact in the wider community.

Parkside Community College is part of United Learning. We are 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 to support your development and that of your staff and school.

We are committed to fairness, diversity and inclusion. We are currently working hard to improve the 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.

Further information

United Learning are working in partnership with Propelo to recruit for this position. If you would like to arrange a visit or set up a confidential conversation, please contact Propelo on 01273 222 877 or email unitedlearning@propelo.co.uk

For your application to be considered, we will need you to download a pack and for details of how to apply, please visit unitedlearning.our-careers.co.uk

All applications should be submitted to unitedlearning@propelo.co.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.

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://unitedlearning.our-careers.co.uk/

Where teaching is better shared

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