Vice Principal

We are looking for an outstanding individual to join our Senior Leadership Team as Vice Principal at Harris Clapham Sixth Form, ensuring continued pastoral excellence, high academic standards and outstanding progress for all students. Candidates should have the ability to be a role model to staff and students, build teams, and empower others.

About Us

We want our students to be hugely ambitious, to dream bigger and to realise their aspirations, with the help of great teaching, a rigorous curriculum and a fantastic extra-curricular offer that broadens horizons and sparks curiosity. As well as our curriculum and enrichment offer, our students undertake a cultural perspective each term which opens up new worlds and ways of thinking. Above all, we really believe our students are capable of anything, and we are relentless in supporting them to pursue their ambitions.

Our opportunities for leadership development ensure that our students can make their mark on the world and to have the confidence and integrity to stand up for what they believe in. Our PRSHE curriculum supports our students to develop resilience and empathy, as well as building fantastic university and career skills for their brilliant futures.

Main Areas of Responsibility

The Vice Principal will be required to work as a member of the Academy Leadership team: 

• To play a major role in developing the shared vision for the academy
• To play a major role in formulating the aims and objectives of the academy; in establishing the policies through which they will be achieve and in monitoring progress towards their achievement
• To be in charge of a range of responsibilities within the academy and to develop, maintain and operate appropriate systems for quality assurance in all aspects of our operations
• To demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set aspirational targets for the whole academy community
• To lead, plan, manage and ensure the successful delivery of the HCL6F vision for individual student achievement (in terms of academic success and university destination) that meets or surpasses expectation. 
• To assist in the day to day running of the Sixth Form and as necessary deputise for the Head of School in their absence. 
• To ensure that students and staff support the HCL6F ethos. 
• To support the Head of School in delivering outstanding levels of teaching and learning, taking full responsibility for all aspects of teaching and learning in your key areas of responsibility.
• To undertake an appropriate programme of teaching. 
• To ensure that all students have maximum support and opportunities to reach their full potential, including supporting staff to implement high quality intervention programmes when underachievement is identified
• To build effective and cohesive staff teams. 
• To work with colleagues to ensure data is use effectively and consistently across the academy.
• To support colleagues and subject leaders in developing schemes of learning, short and medium term planning.
• To develop strategies to enhance teachers' ability to learn and develop advanced teaching skills in the academy workforce.
• To raise students' aspirations and achievement through assemblies, opportunities and personalising learning.
• To challenge under-performance at all levels and throughout all departments ensuring effective corrective action and follow-up.
• To act as a role model in the provision of high-quality learning, teaching and assessment.
• To assist in the implementation of effective procedures to support teachers who are underperforming, responding to the outcomes of this support as appropriate
• To promote and sustain effective management of the academy environment, its site and buildings.
• To chair meetings, as appropriate to specific roles, ensuring effective consultation, delegation of responsibility and successful implementation of outcomes.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• QTS and a good undergraduate degree (with a good degree)
• Minimum of three years at senior at AP or VP Level.
• Experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff
• Proven success in raising achievement as a subject leader across at least two key stages.
• Evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance
• Successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review that provide performance data that can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning
• Good level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement, including the use of interactive white boards Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
• Experience of presenting to a wide audience including teachers, managers, governors and parents
• Ideas of how Language, Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
• Experience of embedding innovative strategies for improving teaching and learning in a whole school situation
• Experience of managing and implementing change successfully at whole school level
• Experience of using coaching as a model for ensuring ongoing professional development particularly with subject leaders
• Enthusiasm for and commitment to the achievement of the academy's overall vision for success at all levels
• Willingness to work hard
• Enthusiastic and exceptional teacher
• Flexible, adaptable, results orientated, able to prioritise, resilient under pressure
• Awareness of and commitment to equal opportunities and valuing diversity
• To command and demand respect from the school community
• A commitment to “personalising learning” for all students in the academy
• Creativity and enthusiasm to promote a positive school image to the local and national community
• The aspirations, talent and enthusiasm to become a Principal/Head of School
• Enthusiasm for and commitment to the achievement of the academy/Federation's overall vision for success at all levels
• Motivation to work with children and young people
• Ability to build and sustain professional standards, relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
• Emotional maturity and resilience in dealing with challenging behaviours

Rewards & Benefits

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan including access to a virtual GP, electric car scheme, and many other benefits.

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.