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Westbourne Academy
Assistant Principal Teaching and Learning
Salary scale: Leadership 12-16
Line Manager: The Principal
The Role
The Assistant Principal for Teaching and Learning is a crucial post within the academy. The successful candidate will work closely with other members of the Senior Leadership Team and with curriculum leaders to ensure our students experience and engage in high quality teaching and learning across all areas.
The post holder will lead on professional development for staff, ensuring that all staff have an accurate understanding of their own development needs and that our professional learning offer is equipped to meet these needs, is being accessed appropriately and has impact. The post holder will also support staff to explore research evidence and collect evidence from their own practice, to deepen their understanding of highly effective pedagogy and, in doing so, continually improve their practice.
The Assistant Principal will play a pivotal role in helping to set the tone and ethos of the academy and positively promote the academy to all stakeholders. As a member of the senior leadership team, they will also take on other, whole academy responsibilities. These will be decided based on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but will include being visible and proactive at all times to ensure we maintain an effective learning environment.
Overall Purpose and Accountability
? To meet the requirements of the Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document and to support students in attaining at the highest levels.
? To support and uphold the ethos, principles, policies and rules of the academy in all respects and at all times.
? To provide high quality learning experiences that support students in achieving at the highest level possible and in developing their own capacity as independent and reflective learners.
? To support the Principal in the leadership and management of the academy, both in respect of the specific duties attached to this post and generally in all areas of academy life.
? The purpose of your additional responsibility beyond that of a classroom teacher is to lead teaching, learning and assessment at the academy. This includes ensuring all staff develop their practice through high quality professional learning.
Post-Specific Responsibilities
As Assistant Principal Teaching and Learning you will:
? Lead on further improving the quality of teaching, learning and assessment across the academy, ensuring that all students are both engaged and challenged across the curriculum.
? Support and develop Team Leaders to plan, deliver and evaluate the effectiveness of Continuing Professional Development in their subject areas.
? Work with Team Leaders to design high quality subject curricula that offer challenge and engagement for all.
Job Description & PS: Assistant Principal T&L (April 2019) 2
? Support teachers to develop their practice so that students’ experiences in the classroom are consistently engaging and challenging.
? Actively identify and remove barriers to learning, for both staff and students.
? Lead on staff CPD to ensure all staff are accessing high quality professional learning.
? Promote and ensure challenge and rigour for more able students across and beyond the curriculum.
Responsibilities common to the Senior Leadership Team
? Be a strong teacher with a deep understanding of pedagogy. It is the responsibility of all SLT to model ‘strong teaching’ at all times.
? Be a member of the Leadership Team, in which everyone is committed to securing outstanding outcomes for our students and our community.
? Share direct accountability for the successful delivery of the vision for the academy as a whole.
? Assist the Principal in leading academy in such a way that the highest standards are secured amongst staff and students in all areas of the College’s performance and practice.
? Act as a role model for staff, providing active support and advice to them whilst holding them accountable.
? Lead on improvement strategies, coaching and supporting staff, ensuring quality, monitoring and evaluation of performance.
? Lead and manage middle leaders to ensure that academy improvement is being effectively led at this level.
? Take a corporate view of policy implementation and an appropriate share of the many and varied tasks required of academy Leaders.
? Ensure that all students across the full ability range have maximum support and opportunities to reach their full potential, achieving a position where they can become effective and valued stakeholders in the academy and in the wider community.
? Play a lead part in the community of the academy, being highly visible on a daily basis and undertaking a range of duties to ensure the smooth operational running of the academy.
? Contribute to all self-evaluation measures and Quality Assurance processes.
? Conduct reviews which identify strengths and areas for development.
? Report to the Governing Body as necessary.
Health and safety
You will:
? Adhere to school health and safety policies/procedures and current statutory health and safety requirements.
? Attend training as and when required for the purposes of safeguarding children and corporate safety.
? Ensure the academyl is immediately notified of any issues that may affect your right to maintain enhanced clearance to work on the school site (DBS).
This job description is current at the date below but will be reviewed on an annual basis and, following consultation with you, may be changed to reflect or anticipate changes in the job requirements which are commensurate with the job title and grade.
For application details please go to www.academytransformationtrust.co.uk/vacancies
Opening date: 9th April 2019
Closing date: 24th April 2019
Interview date: w/c 29th April 2019
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