Assistant Principal

**Salary**: L12 - L16 (£65,286 - £72,162) **Job type**: Full Time, Permanent **Start date**: April 2025 24 February 2025 **Job overview**: **Assistant Principal - SENCo** Contract: Full Time, Permanent **Salary**: L12-L16 Site: - Queen Katharine Academy Closing date: Mon 24th February 9am Start Date: April 2025 Are you an ambitious leader looking for an exciting challenge to shape the future of Queen Katharine Academy? Are you ready to lead and inspire a team dedicated to transforming the lives of students with SEND? If so, this is the school for you **Your Role** Queen Katherine Academy have an exciting opportunity to appoint an outstanding dynamic, driven leader to join their Senior Leadership Team as Assistant Principal **_- _**SEND Lead. You will play a key role in ensuring _that any individual with a Special Educational Need and/or Disability_**_ _**acquires the necessary knowledge, skills and character to make a positive contribution to society and r_each their full potential._ **About You** You are a _strong and confident_ leader who has demonstrable experience in raising achievements of learners with complex needs and _who_ can work strategically across KS_3_ to KS5 to deliver key priorities. You are an ambitious Assistant Principal who is looking for a new and exciting challenge to develop the SEND Team and _the_ systems _and processes, to drive the continued improvement_ at Queen Katharine Academy. This is an excellent opportunity for you to join a school within one of the well-regarded Trusts in the eastern region. The school has a great history of success and a bright and exciting future and we are looking for an ambitious and dynamic teacher to steer it through the next stage of its development. Collaboration, educational research and professional development are at the core of how the schools within Thomas Deacon Education Trust work together. With a clear focus on teaching at all levels, the Trust is well placed to provide great opportunities to promote Queen Katharine Academy as a leading school. **Why work for us?** Join - Thomas Deacon Education Trust and be part of a dedicated team committed to "working together to transform lives through education.” To learn more about the benefits we have on offer, check out our video here: - Employee Benefits Join TDET, where 95% of our new employees highly rate our induction programs. Benefit from the unwavering support of our dedicated staff, ensuring you feel welcomed and well-prepared from day one. If you have the skills we are looking for, we can’t wait to meet you **TDET - Working together to transform lives through education** **About**Queen Katharine Academy**: **Queen Katharine Academy** - Mountsteven Avenue, Walton, Peterborough - Cambridgeshire - PE4 6HX - United Kingdom +44 1733 383888 Queen Katharine Academy is a member of the Peterborough based - Thomas Deacon Education Trust and opened in September 2017 having emerged from its predecessor school, The Voyager Academy. The name change signified a deep desire to be associated with its local community and to align itself with the admirable the Academy building values of Katharine of Aragon who is buried in the city’s cathedral. Whilst a building does not make a school, it is worth noting that the Academy building is a purpose built, modern facility, providing a range of impressive classrooms and multi-use communal spaces with expansive playing fields and sporting facilities. The Academy is a larger than average 11-19 school in north Peterborough with approximately 1100 students on roll - 300 in the sixth form. We are acutely aware that the key purpose of the Academy is to put students first and everything we do must reflect that aim. Our vision is: _“To be an inclusive centre of educational excellence.”_ We seek to ensure that students receive a broad and balanced education that enables them to achieve their potential and take the appropriate next steps in their lives as valued and confident members of society. We have high expectations of our students in all that they do and this is underpinned by a set of guiding principles focussed around the key concept of respect, ensuring that our Academy is a purposeful, calm and safe place to learn. Similarly, we have high expectations of ourselves and strive to provide high quality support and guidance alongside stimulating and engaging learning experiences. We are very much committed to working with parents and carers and firmly believe that effective, long-lasting partnerships are crucial in supporting our students to be the best that they can be. Through high standards in teaching and pastoral care and the many opportunities provided both within the formal curriculum and beyond, our students are prepared for entrance to higher education, high quality employment and the future careers of their choice. Visitors to the Academy often comment on the calm purposeful learning environment which our staff and student