Deputy Principal: Curriculum

Oasis Academy Shirley Park (Year 7 - 11, Sixth Form), Croydon
Academy-based

Salary: Deputy L Scale

Basis: Full-time, Fixed-term

Start Date: TBC

Applications Close: 23:59 on Friday, May 3, 2024

Interviews: TBC

KEY RELATIONSHIPS: Academy Leadership Team; relevant teaching and support staff; students; partner professionals; parents; local community; other Oasis Academies and Oasis Community Learning central staff.

JOB PURPOSE: Provide strategic leadership, in consultation with the Principal, staff, parents and Academy Council, which brings about high standards of education. All leaders in the Academy share in devising strategies for raising achievement and ensuring high standards of behaviour. The post holder will work in close collaboration with the Principal and deputise for the Principal in his absence as required. The post holder shall have the professional duties of a Deputy Principal teacher in accordance with the current DfE's School Teachers' Pay and Conditions document and wider responsibilities relating to strategic direction and development, teaching and learning, leading and managing staff and efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources in consultation with the Principal.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Full responsibilities are broken down by category, however key responsibilities include: 1. To assist the Principal, together with other members of the Academy Leadership Team, in providing leadership and in managing the Academy. 2. To provide strategic leadership for specified whole school initiatives. 3. To monitor and support academic progress, attendance and behaviour of students in a specified phase of the Academy; 4. To actively support the vision, ethos and policies of the Academy. 5. To strategically lead on the safeguarding and welfare of children at the academy.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: Have strategic oversight of the Academy behaviour policy and ensure its successful implementation. Lead and be the driving force behind safeguarding across the Academy, ensuring that all young people feel safe and that safeguarding is a priority for all staff. Within the next two years, have strategic oversight for students with SEND in the Academy, supporting the SENDCO to ensure that all students, no matter their starting point or SEND status, make excellent progress. To work with the Principal to ensure that our pastoral offer is at at the heart of our disadvantaged strategy ensuring that our offer opens doors and closes the gap for every single student. Work alongside the Principal to continue to raise standards across the Academy to secure outstanding quality of culture and ethos across the school. Work with the Assistant Principal, to ensure effective running of all areas of behaviour and attitudes across the Academy. Have strategic oversight of the Academy's attendance policy - working closely with the Assistant Principal, to ensure that attendance is a priority for all staff and students. Lead and manage any students who access alternative provision Ensure a consistent and relentless school-wide focus on students' wellbeing and behaviour, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every student's journey. Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice, specifically through the lens of SEND, and promote improvement strategies Lead and deliver whole staff CPD in our contextual and statutory safeguarding needs. Establish research driven, responsive and effective approaches to safeguarding, behaviour and wellbeing across all aspects of the Academy. A. Achievement and standards • Set high expectations and stretching targets for the Academy to which your areas of responsibility contribute significantly. • Ensure a consistent and continuous focus on student achievement using data to track and monitor the progress in every student's learning. • Use national, local and Academy data effectively to analyse and evaluate student progress; planning and implementing effective interventions to support students • Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of learning outcomes Professional Standards- Attributes, Knowledge and Understanding • Commitment to a collaborative Academy vision of excellence and equality that sets high standards for every student. • Ability to analyse and evaluate performance data. • Demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set stretching targets for the Academy. • Take appropriate action when performance in unsatisfactory within their specified areas of responsibility. • Have an extensive knowledge and well-informed understanding of the assessment. B. Quality of Provision • Raise the quality of teaching and learning so that lessons are good or better and there is no inadequate teaching. • Secure and sustain effective teaching through structured monitoring, evaluation and review. • Monitor the quality of teaching and students' learning through the analysis of performance data, observation of teaching, work scrutiny, student interviews in collaboration with the Academy Leadership teams. • Contribute to the development of teaching and learning by supporting training programmes, coaching and mentoring of teachers. • Develop and maintain Academy policies and practices which promote high achievement and inclusion through effective teaching and learning across the Academy. • Contribute to the development of the curriculum to best reflect the Academy's curricular aims and to meet the needs of all students. • Seek opportunities to collaborate with other Academies, innovative and high achieving schools through the Oasis Community Learning and other relevant networks to share and develop excellent pedagogies. • Take a strategic role in the development of new and emergent technologies to enhance and extend the learning experiences of students. • Implement strategies that ensure high standards of behaviour. • Promote extra-curricular activities and out of hours learning which enhance learning opportunities. • Have a teaching commitment within the Academy. Professional Standards- Attributes, Knowledge and Understanding • Recognises excellence and challenges underperformance at all levels and ensures corrective action and follow up. • Ensures a culture of challenge and support where all students can achieve success. • Have teaching skills which lead to learners achieving well relative to their prior attainment, making progress as good as, or better than, similar learners nationally. • Understanding of school self-evaluation and an ability to make evidence based judgements. • Ability to initiate and support research and debate about effective teaching and learning and develop strategies to improve performance. C. Leadership and Management • Be a strategic and supportive member of the Leadership team of the Academy, playing a key role in the development of the Academy as it becomes an innovative, high performing, and emotionally intelligent organisation for the 21st century • Effectively manage an agenda of significant change to raise standards in all areas of Academy life. • Take the lead strategic oversight for specified areas of improvement and development and make a significant contribution to the strategic development of all areas of the Academy, whether or not holding a direct responsibility for the strategic feature or not • Have oversight of years 7 and 8 in the first instance, ensuring that effective teaching and learning takes place and that students' personal development needs are met • Play a key role in creating an environment within the Academy where students and staff develop and maintain positive attitudes towards each other, the environment and community • Contribute to the development and review of the Academy Improvement Plan, OfSTED Self Evaluation Form and the related documentation • Line manage designated teachers, Heads of Learning Areas and support staff working collaboratively to raise student achievement and attainment across the Academy and provide effective support, guidance, challenge and information for all staff within designated areas of responsibility • Take an active role as a Team Leader within the Academy's Performance Management policy in addition to promoting and providing induction and Continuous Professional Development opportunities to ensure the professional effectiveness of teaching and support staff colleagues • Maintain clear expectations, high standards of professionalism and collaboration to meet the Academy Improvement Planning priorities • Assist in the appointment of staff and their deployment to make most effective use of their skills, expertise and experience to raise standards of achievement across the Academy • Ensure that all staff have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities • Use appropriate resources, in consultation with the Principal, for effective, efficient and safe teaching and learning across the Academy; accommodation, agreed budgets, staff, time, courses, development opportunities and ICT resources • Liaise effectively with all stakeholders including parents, Academy Council, feeder schools, partner secondary schools, business and community partners and the wider community, as appropriate to designated strategic responsibilities • Network with other Academies, innovative and high achieving schools through the Oasis Community Learning and other relevant networks; make and host regular visits in order to learn more about the ways that other institutions are effecting change and transformation • Ensure the Academy is compliant with national, local and Academy statutory, legal; and policy requirements Professional Standards - Attributes, Knowledge and Understanding • Acts as a lead professional, setting a professional example to staff and students • Makes professional . click apply for full job details