Assistant Principal

**Salary**:
L16 - L20

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
As soon as possible

28 January 2025

**Job overview**:
Thank you for your interest in this position. We seek to appoint an outstanding and dynamic person to be our new Assistant Principal (Head of Sixth Form). The position offers the opportunity for an ambitious and strategic leader to become a member of our senior leadership team, and to make a significant contribution to the continuing development and improvement of our school.

Our commitment in recent years to the professional development of all our staff has resulted in substantially improved leadership, teaching and learning, pastoral care, and provision for students with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Over 20 of our colleagues have completed National Professional Qualifications, at all levels, and last year almost half of our teaching staff were directly (and voluntarily) involved in Ambition Institute’s Transforming Teaching programme. This has led to a culture of coaching and peer-led staff development across the whole school. Joining the leadership team in 2025, you will benefit from high standards of mentoring, support from your colleagues, and a commitment to your own further professional growth: this is a career-defining opportunity for the right person.

Our mission, to offer education that transforms lives, is lived out daily through our values of trust and respect, courage and ambition. We are a fully inclusive school, as shown by our rising intake of disadvantaged students, increasing representation of students from ethnic minorities, and our thriving Pride Club. Lord Lawson is a single academy trust of around 1300 students, including 120 in the sixth form, drawn from Birtley, Gateshead, and surrounding areas. Our finances are in good shape. Behaviour and attendance throughout the school are very good.

Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

Closing Date: 12 noon, Tuesday 28 January 2025

Shortlisting to take place: Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 January 2025

Interview Date: Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 February 2025

**About**Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy**:
**Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy**
- Birtley Lane, Birtley, Chester le Street
- County Durham
- DH3 2LP
- United Kingdom

+44 191 433 4026

Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy is a successful 11-18 mainstream co-educational academy which has improved rapidly over recent years. We recently celebrated achieving a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating in our November 2022 inspection. The improvement in progress 8 scores from 2019 to 2022 indicates we are the most improved school in Gateshead and among the top 10% of schools for improvement in the North East of England.

We provide an exceptional programme of CPD for staff. We know this through staff surveys and our exceptionally low levels of staff turnover. The majority of staff who have left us have gone on to promoted positions. Staff are happy here; Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy is a good place to work. We have high expectations of our staff and students, but we also know our staff are our greatest asset, and we treat them with respect. We value the development of all our staff and you will develop further as a teacher during your time here.

We are an academy at the heart of its community and responsive to its needs while also recognising that our students are increasingly part of a global community.

**Headteacher**

Andrew Fowler

Our vision for outstanding education

**“Together we grow, learn and succeed”**
Students, staff and governors have set an inspiring new vision for the school. This vision shows our belief that, when we work together as a community, every child and adult can reach the very highest standards. We believe that we are strongest when we work together, and that through excellent pastoral care and inspiring teaching, children will be able to grow and learn. Success comes in many different forms, and is important in all aspects of school life, including examinations.

**Strong values for growth and success** **Trust Respect Courage Ambition**
Our academy’s strong values capture the spirit of our vision. By showing respect for each other, we learn to trust and be trusted. We show courage in tackling new and complex tasks. We are ambitious for ourselves, and we encourage one another to attain ambitious goals.