Assistant Principal

2 months ago

Wandsworth, United Kingdom Harris Federation Full time

**Summary**
We are looking for an outstanding leader to join us as Assistant Principal, supporting the strategic and operational management, development and leadership of Harris Academy Battersea, and ensuring the achievement of our ethos, aims and objectives.
**About Us**
Harris Academy Battersea is a mixed state secondary school serving a truly comprehensive community in the heart of London. We are an Ofsted ‘**Outstanding**' school with a track record of delivering fantastic outcomes year on year for our students.

Our Academy is centred on the values of **Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience** and these underpin the way we work for both students and staff. Our staff are inclusive, diverse and committed to our mission: we develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world.

HABS offers a broad, academic and challenging curriculum founded on six key curriculum aims:

- To develop deep, long-lasting knowledge
- To develop students into accomplished readers, writers and orators
- To provide experiences within and beyond the classroom that enrich learning and ensure students can make informed choices about their futures
- To equip students to challenge injustice in all its forms
- To enable students to understand how they learn
- To support students to reflect on their choices and values to improve themselves and their community

These aims underpin all elements of our curriculum, and **we see our core academic curriculum and wider personal development curriculum as intrinsically linked**. All staff at the Academy contribute to the personal development of our students through their roles as tutors and through their contributions to the wider life of the academy.

A thriving school can only function with fantastic staff, and our vision is to make teaching at HABS both **enjoyable and sustainable**. The wellbeing of staff underpins every decision we make, and we seek to ensure that every member of staff can enjoy a work-life-balance enabling them to bring their best to work each day.

At HABS, **professional growth and development** is central to our mission. Our professional development motto is ‘improve, not prove' and leaders are relentlessly focussed on supporting staff in getting even better through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities.

**Main Areas of Responsibility**
Your responsibilities will include:

- To create a true learning institution in the academy at all levels
- To play a major role in formulating the aims, objectives and shared vision of the academy
- To lead the development and maintenance of a high quality positive learning environment
- To take full responsibility for all aspects of teaching and learning in your key area of responsibility
- To ensure high quality teaching across the academy
- To work with colleagues to ensure data is used effectively and consistently
- To work with the SLT to lead the assessment and reporting programme
- To support staff in making sure high quality intervention programmes are in place
- With the SLT, to develop strategies to enhance teachers’ ability to learn and to develop advanced teaching skills
- To raise students’ aspirations and achievement
- To ensure the highest standards of achievement for all students
- To ensure the entitlement of all students to have equal access to and participation in all aspects of the curriculum.
- To ensure the efficient and effective provision of cross curricular skills, knowledge and understanding
- To identify and monitor successful learning outcomes
- To monitor, review and evaluate teaching and learning and classroom practice
- To maintain an informed view of standards and of the quality of teaching across the academy
- To challenge under-performance at all levels and throughout all departments
- To establish, and maintain, the highest possible standards of behaviour, learning and attainment
- To demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set aspirational targets
- To act as a role model in the provision of high quality learning, teaching and assessment
- To coordinate the activities of staff
- To lead and manage staff in an appropriate manner
- To assist in the implementation of effective procedures to support teachers who are underperforming
- To maintain high morale amongst staff and set an example of professional standards and leadership
- To contribute to the recruitment, training, deployment and professional development of staff
- To promote and sustain effective management of the Academy environment
- To provide information about the work and performance of staff
- To chair meetings

**Qualifications & Experience**
We would like to hear from you if you have:

- QTS (or equivalent) and a good undergraduate degree
- Extensive teaching experience
- Outstanding teaching practice
- Successful management experience as Head of Department or member of the SLT
- Experience of writing department SEF
- Experience of lesson observations and giving feedback
- Experience of

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