Assistant Principal for Teaching

**Summary**
We are looking for an Assistant Principal to assist the Executive Principal and the Principal in the strategic and operational management, development and leadership of Harris Academy Riverside, and ensure the achievement of our ethos, aims and objectives within the context of the Academy’s strategic and development plans.

**About Us**
Harris Academy Riverside is a very popular non-selective and highly oversubscribed academy which opened as part of the Harris Federation and the regeneration of the Purfleet on Thames area in 2017. We serve our local community of Purfleet on Thames and West Thurrock and have 900 on roll in the secondary academy and around 200 students in the 6th form.

**Vision**

Harris Academy Riverside seeks to develop students who are successful, confident and happy, who inspire their community and who act with kindness and compassion towards others.

**Ethos**

In our procedures and daily routines, our broad and varied curriculum, our pedagogical model and through our commitment to providing experience of the wider world we aim to promote a strong sense of community and belonging, to provide a blend of high challenge and high support and to encourage the development of
- Outstanding habits of behaviour such as self-awareness, kindness, appreciation, humility, politeness, confident self-expression and self-presentation and
- Outstanding habits of learning such as determination, resilience, organisation, reading, studying and practice

**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 and objectives of the academy; in establishing the policies through which they will be achieved and in monitoring progress towards their achievement
- Lead on and develop the shared vision for the academy
- Leading the development and maintenance of a high quality positive learning environment to raise standards;
- 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 and particularly in your key areas by monitoring students’ work and teachers’ planning
- To work with colleagues to ensure data is used effectively and consistently across the academy
- To work with the SLT to lead the academy’s assessment and reporting programme
- To support staff in making sure high quality intervention programmes are in place when underachievement is identified
- With the SLT, to develop strategies to enhance teachers’ ability to learn and to develop advanced teaching skills in the academy workforce
- Raise students’ aspirations and achievement through personalising learning
- To ensure the highest standards of achievement for all students, through high expectations and well balanced curriculum
- Ensure the entitlement of all students to have equal access to and participation in all aspects of the curriculum.
- Ensuring the efficient and effective provision of cross curricular skills, knowledge and understanding by engaging staff in all areas of learning
- Identifying what are successful learning outcomes and then monitoring students’ progress, continuity and progression
- Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies
- Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating teaching and learning through regular classroom observation
- To maintain an informed view of standards and of the quality of teaching across the academy by monitoring student’s learning and teacher’s planning and delivery
- Challenge under-performance at all levels and throughout all departments ensuring effective corrective action and follow-up
- To establish, and maintain, the highest possible standards of behaviour, learning and attainment
- Demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set aspirational targets for the whole Academy community
- Acting as a role model in the provision of high quality learning, teaching and assessment
- Coordinating the activities of staff including teaching and learning strategies, curriculum development and effective use of resources
- To lead and manage staff in an appropriate manner, offering support, encouragement, guidance and advice to ensure effective policy in practice
- To assist in the implementation of effective procedures to support teachers who are underperforming, responding to the outcomes of this support as appropriate
- 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 as appropriate
- To promote and sustain effective management of the Academy environment, its site and buildings
- To provide information about the work and performance of staff, where this is relevant to their future employment at the academy or elsewhere
- To chair meetings, as appropriate to specific roles, en