Assistant Principal

Unique opportunity to join a new school in North London

• Do you want to play a key role in an exciting and innovative school?

• Are you passionate that all children get the best start in life?

• Do you want to move your career forward in an environment that nurtures talent and has scope for career progression?

• Do you believe all students have the potential to succeed given great teaching and the right school culture?

One Degree Academy has been given a rare opportunity to raise standards of education inNorth London. Our school is consistently in the top 2% of over 16,300 primary schoolsnationally.

We know that success and habits of excellence are achieved through perseverance andincremental improvement - ‘one degree’ at a time. This idea is at the heart of our school.Whether you are experienced working in schools or someone seeking to enter this profession, you will play a key part in the academy’s development. As with our students, we want to grow and develop our team, ‘step- by-step’: all staff receive professional development in line with their role, with potential opportunities to progress as the school grows.

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Assistant Principal to help develop our school. We are looking for someone with a positive, professional attitude who will thrive serving the needs of our school community. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to join the senior leadership team of One Degree Academy and to be part of something profound and special.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Join an engaged team and organisation utterly committed to developing its staff through incremental improvement, step-by-step

• Play a key role developing our school, with the potential to progress as we grow

• Take on a breadth of leadership roles and responsibilities

Successful candidates will:

• Have an unfaltering commitment to serving the Academy, its students and staff

• Be proactive, organised, efficient and reliable, with a positive attitude and strong communication skills

• Welcome feedback and be committed to the idea of continuous improvement and self-development

• Be committed to the One Degree Academy vision and values

• Have the skills and dedication to have a positive impact on the lives of our students and on the school community

Your Role

To serve as a strategic partner to the Principal, driving school performance and providing the leadership capacity necessary to achieve institutional goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Development and Leadership of the Academy

• To provide strategic leadership of the academy’s pastoral systems, driving excellent attendance through innovative support for all families, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

• To serve as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), fulfilling all statutory safeguarding duties while thinking beyond standard practices to engage hard-to-reach families and ensure robust protection for all students.

Teaching, Learning, Curriculum and Assessment

• To model excellence in classroom practice, serving as a lead practitioner who inspires and raises standards of teaching and learning across the academy.

• To oversee efficient, fit-for-purpose assessment systems that accurately track student progress and ensure all students are challenged to make exceptional gains.

• To oversee robust assessment and moderation processes that meet all statutory requirements and directly inform high-quality, targeted learning.

• To foster a culture of professional dialogue, proactively identifying and scaling good practice to enhance the collective expertise of the teaching staff.

Other

• Support the academy’s values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies, practices and procedures.

• Help create a strong school community characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, respectful relationships.

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people, and follow academy policies, including the staff code of conduct.

• Be cognisant that there may be times when working outside the standard hours is required for operational purposes.

This document provides an outline of the responsibilities that this role involves. However, the post-holder must be available to perform such duties at such times and such places as may be specified by the Principal and which may be reasonably requested as being commensurate with the role and duties undertaken.

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Source: UK Teaching Vacancies Service (teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.