Assistant Principal - SENCO & Safeguarding

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

• The National Award for SEND Coordination (or willingness to achieve it)
• Proven leadership experience, ideally at middle or senior level
• A strong track record of improving outcomes for students with SEND
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A commitment to inclusive education and safeguarding
• 
  Professional development in preparation for a senior leadership role

  
  

• A good honours degree
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  An excellent teacher with successful experience in teaching own subject
• Successful senior leadership experience
• Experience of leading at a senior level within a successful school
• Evidence of work that has led directly to positive outcomes for students
• Effective understanding of school improvement planning
• The ability to use data to evaluate performance and take effective action
  on the basis of data
• Experience of, and proven skills with, manipulating, analysing, and
  reporting with data to a range of audiences
• A knowledge of curriculum developments and opportunities
• Experience in contributing to staff development
• Understanding of high-quality teaching, and the ability to model this for
  others and support others to improve
• Involvement in self-evaluation and improvement planning
• Experience of working in inner city multi-cultural school settings

  
  

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  Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Committed to an ethos of high standards, personal fulfilment, and
  academic success.
• An innovative and forward-thinking strategist
• Capacity to inspire through leadership, energy and vision
• The ability to relate well to our whole community
• Demonstrated leadership through example and has a research-informed
  and solution-focussed approach
• Able to react positively to challenges, seeing them as opportunities rather
  than barriers
• Committed to maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Committed to safeguarding and equality
• Eager to acquire further skills and career enhancement
• A sense of humour and the ability to remain calm under pressure
• Able to retain a sense of perspective

  
  

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  Ability to establish positive and sensitive interpersonal relationships
  within the community
• Ability to lead a team, involving people and delegating appropriately
• Ability to work proactively and independently
• Ability to work under pressure, plan time effectively and meet required
  deadlines
• A clear awareness of whole school management issues
• An understanding of the management of change
• An understanding of people management
• Experience of effective self-evaluation methodology

  
  

• Successful experience of budget control and resource management
• Experience of holding people to account in a supportive yet challenging
  way, taking action when needed however difficult
  
  

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