Vice-principal

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
September 2025

20 January 2025

**Job overview**:
St Gabriel’s is a co-educational independent day school founded in 1929, which incorporates St Gabriel’s Nursery, our EYFS provision. Situated in 33 acres of beautiful parkland, landscaped by Capability Brown, the school has evolved and developed over its 90-year history to provide a wonderful learning environment for children aged 6 months to 18 years.

The Vice-Principal is responsible to the Principal and holds a pivotal role at St Gabriel’s assisting the Principal in the leadership and management of the School, together with its day to day running. St Gabriel’s structure allows for a distributed leadership that encourages far greater empowerment of senior & middle leadership. Our senior leadership teams focus on the interactions, as well as the actions, of the leaders involved.

The Vice-Principal is responsible to the Principal in all matters pertaining to the whole School, and its day to day running. She/he will assist and support the Principal in:

- formulating, developing and reviewing policies that enable the whole School to achieve well its aims and values in consultation with colleagues.
- the organisation of the School's term dates and calendar.
- the selection and appointment of staff throughout the School in collaboration with the Deputy Head Academic, Head of Junior School and HR Manager.
- the leadership, management, support and guidance of the Senior School, Junior School and Nursery Leadership Teams.
- the selection, where appropriate, of new pupils and Scholars.
- encouraging the effective communication between staff, pupils and parents that fosters partnership, goodwill and excellent relations.
- assuring high levels of general discipline, in keeping with the School’s Code of Conduct and ethos, in consultation and cooperation with Heads of School.
- stepping in should the Principal not be in school for any reason.

As a member of the Executive and Head of Senior School, the Vice-Principal shares in all policy and decision making at all levels and, together with the Bursar and Head of Junior School, assists the Principal in securing the informed and enthusiastic support of Governors with regard to the future strategic direction of the School.

The Vice-Principal will teach an appropriately reduced timetable.

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- St Gabriel’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, the receipt of an enhanced DBS certificate and verification under the The Childcare (Disqualification) and Childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) (Amendment) Regulations 2018._

**About**St Gabriel's School**:
**St Gabriel's School**
- Sandleford Priory, Newbury
- Berkshire
- RG20 9BD
- United Kingdom

+44 1635 555680

Founded in 1929, St Gabriel’s is a thriving co-educational independent day school for children aged 6 months to 18 years. The key to our success is providing a balanced and inspiring education within a community based on mutual respect and collaboration, creating an environment where pupils are confident, engaged and happy.

While justifiably proud of our pupils’ academic results, we see education as being so much more than numbers and grades; we believe strongly in an all-round education and are eager for our pupils to enjoy their educational journey, rather than having their heads down as the world passes them by.

In the last decade, we have successfully established the St Gabriel’s Nursery and extended the co-educational offering of our Junior School to the Senior School. The Sixth Form, alongside Year 9, accepted boys from September 2024 and will therefore become fully co-educational from September 2026.

Situated in Sandleford Priory, which dates back to the early Middle Ages, St Gabriel’s is set in a beautiful Grade 1 listed building within Capability Brown parkland, which provides a gracious setting in which to work.

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