Senior Assistant Principal
The Stephen Longfellow Academy
Leeds
- Expired
- Salary:
- L13-L17 (£55,202 - £60,895)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2020
- Apply by:
- 6 February 2020
Job overview
Key Stage 1-3 (50 students)
Principal: Ben Mallinson
Executive Principals: Leanne Griffiths and Simon McCarthy
Required for Easter 2020
Senior Assistant Principal: Responsible for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3
L13-L17 (£55,202 - £60,895)
We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified, enthusiastic, dynamic and inspirational Senior Assistant Principal to join an excellent Senior Leadership Team.
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is an Alternative Provision based in the South of Leeds that has changed the face of Alternative Provision, both locally and nationally. Opened in September 2017, The Stephen Longfellow Academy serves schools across Leeds to support some of the most vulnerable young people in the city re-engage with education by following a bespoke curriculum offer that reopens the doors of opportunity that were, at one point, firmly shut. This is because our exceptional team of staff create personalised pathways that combine an academically rich curriculum combined with personalised therapeutic support. This allows significantly high numbers of students to re-engage in mainstream education or enter further education, employment or training.
Inspected in October 2019, inspectors told us that, ‘Leaders want the very best for pupils and have established an effective alternative provision in a short period of time. They are working together well to make this school even better for the benefit of its pupils and their families.’ They also judged all areas of the academy to be Good. We hope to further improve our provision with this new and exciting role.
Our new Senior Assistant Principal will be responsible for designing and implementing the bespoke academic and therapeutic pathways for pupils in Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and into Key Stage 3 (up to Year 8). The successful applicant will be instrumental in designing the curriculum offer to ensure it meets the needs of our students. A proven and highly successful teacher from an education background with experience of teaching Key Stage 1, 2 and/or 3 will be the person who shapes and leads this new part of our work.
Applications are welcome from experienced colleagues seeking a new challenge. The precise leadership responsibilities will be determined both by the strengths of the successful applicant and the requirements of the academy upon appointment.
An Application Pack (including Job Description and Person Specification) is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to ben.mallinson@stephenlongfellow.leeds.sch.uk or by telephone on 0113 4685999. If you would like to know more about The Stephen Longfellow Academy, please visit our website at www.stephenlongfellow.leeds.sch.uk.
Please note if you submit an electronic application we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
Closing date: Thursday 6 February at 9.00 am
Interview date: Monday 10 February
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children and we expect our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure Barring Service Check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
Attached documents
About The Stephen Longfellow Academy
- The Stephen Longfellow Academy
- Phoenix House, Global Avenue, Leeds
- West Yorkshire
- LS11 8PG
- United Kingdom
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is part of The GORSE Academies Trust; a nationally renowned, not-for-profit charity whose drive is to create exceptional schools. The Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Stephen Longfellow Academy, Sir John Townsley, is passionate about providing the highest standard of educational experience for all children, regardless of background, across the age range. Sir John inspires professionals with his vision, a vision that all colleagues at the Stephen Longfellow Academy wholeheartedly share. We are exceptionally proud of what has been achieved since the academy’s inception and we are delighted to have been able to further increase the size of our provision.
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is named in honour of a man who died tragically in a climbing accident in 2015 and who made an enormous contribution to the lives of hundreds of vulnerable and disadvantaged children across the city. At the academy we offer both exceptional education and therapy. Students are taught national curriculum subjects and have access to a range of therapeutic services such as counselling. Therapy is delivered as both an integrated part of our timetable but also within discrete groups or on a 1:1 basis. We believe a therapeutic and nurturing approach allows our students to grow in confidence and increase their self-esteem so that they can successfully integrate into their learning environment and the wider community. By developing personalised learning programmes to meet the needs of vulnerable young people, we want all of our students to have the opportunities similar to those found in large mainstream schools, so that they can leave as confident young adults, ready to seize the opportunities of further education, training or work.
We work in close partnership with our families and commissioning schools to provide short and longer term interventions for students who are struggling to maintain a full time place at their mainstream school. Our aim is to do all we can to support pupils and their families to get back on track to achieving their goals and ambitions.
Our students receive outstanding pastoral care, support and guidance and we would expect any successful candidate to be of a mind-set where they believe anything is possible. Clearly, working in our academy will be demanding as well as very rewarding. We assure you that as our colleague you will be of great value and importance, an importance reflected in the quality of the professional development we are able to provide. If successful, you will enjoy the support and professional expertise that being a part of The GORSE Academies Trust affords.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Principal: Wayne Little
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