Associate Assistant Principal - Education with Character

Location

Salford, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

Job description

Post Title: Associate Assistant Principal – Education with Character 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Full Time, permanent. 

Salary: United Learning PayScale £49,884 - £58,781 

Reporting to: Assistant Principal – Curriculum  

Conditions of Service : United Learning Contract 

Salford City Academy has an exciting opportunity to appoint an Associate Assistant Principal with responsibility for Education with Character. The Education with Character programme at Salford City Academy is an essential driver of the personal development of students and the United Learning philosophy of developing ‘the best in everyone’. Our character offer ensures students experience exciting opportunities that challenge them and allow them to experience new things, explore their interests and develop their talents.

The Associate Assistant Principal will lead over the programme for extracurricular opportunities, our Academy charter including rewards, enrichment days, student leadership and our carbon neutral agenda. Education with Character is vitally important to Salford City Academy in ensuring that students are supported to develop both academically and in terms of their character traits. We are looking for someone who can take an already fantastic provision which is highly regarded trust-wide as a flagship school for character education to the next level through their inspirational and transformative leadership. 

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join a vibrant and cohesive senior leadership team, leading over an extremely important and valued area of the academy. The senior leadership team is highly visible and extremely supportive.

We wish to appoint a truly outstanding individual with a track record of impactful strategic leadership. The right candidate must have an ability to demonstrate school improvement and the resilience to deal with the challenges of the role. We are looking for a leader who can support us in the next stage of our journey to promote the character development of students. Salford City Academy is an exciting place to work; our students are high-achieving and ambitious, our staff are committed and very well qualified and a share an ambition that all of the students we serve deserve an excellent education. 

We are looking for an excellent leader who will lead with confidence and conviction and will be passionate about the power of education to transform lives. You will demonstrate impeccable professionalism, unwavering determination, and relentless optimism. Able to lead by example and be a source of inspiration, you will support and guide colleagues whilst demonstrating a love of your subject to cultivate a similar passion in your students. Furthermore, you will have the highest expectations of every student in terms of achievement, character and conduct. 

We welcome applications from teachers of all subject disciplines.  

Why choose us?

High achieving school – verified by Ofsted and through our GCSE results.

Salford City Academy is highly ambitious and very successful 11- 16 academy which is part of the United Learning Multi- academy Trust. In February 2022 Ofsted judged the academy to continue to be a good school citing ‘Pupils at Salford City Academy said that they enjoy coming to school to learn. They feel happy and safe at school.’ Leaders have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour. Pupils behave well in lessons and around the school. They are polite, courteous and well-mannered. Leaders do not tolerate any derogatory behaviour. Pupils respect each other’s differences.’

Mission Statement

Our vision is to provide an excellent education for all our students, which brings out the best in all of them and prepares them for success in life. The academy is an exciting place to be, and it is an excellent time to join us.  

We are proud members of the Salford community, constantly striving to be the best and bringing out the best in everyone. Tolerance, mutual respect, honesty, and co-operation are fostered in line with our Culture of Excellence.

We feel passionately about supporting students to overcome any barriers to learning and promoting diversity and tolerance across the academy. We have an extensive personal development programme ‘Aspire’ which incorporates all aspects of student’s wider development.  ‘Pupils make a valuable contribution to the life of the school. This is particularly evident in the work of the prefects. Pupils spoke highly of the rewards programme. Disadvantaged pupils, and those pupils with SEND, engage fully in all aspects of school life.’ Ofsted 2022. 

What do we offer:

Disruption free learning

We believe passionately that students should learn in a disruption free environment. Our expectations of behaviour are very high, and we believe that all of our students are capable of meeting them. We accept no excuses for disruption to learning or poor behaviour. We have a very clear and well-structured behaviour system which supports this. 

Excellent continuous professional development and collaboration

Salford City Academy is committed to professional development; all staff are expected to actively participate in a programme of continuing professional development (CPD).  We need to make sure that we have the right people in the right place, doing the job that is needed to build excellent provision for our children and young people. Staff are supported professionally to ensure they can do that and are valued and recognised for their work. We have an extensive professional development programme within the academy, where staff are involved in reflective practice, coaching, weekly deliberate practice and CPD focused on academy, subject and individual priorities.  

United Learning schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resources, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. Our approaches within the academy support this so that our main focus can be on planning and delivering high quality teaching and learning. For example, all behaviour and detentions are managed centrally by the Inclusion Team. This allows teachers the time and capacity to deliver high quality lessons and supports their workload and well-being 

If you want to find out more, please visit our website  

Closing Date : 22nd March 

Interviews : 27th March.

To book onto our recruitment open day please click the link below to book on.

Open Events taking place:

Recruitment Open Day for all vacancies – Monday 11th March 2024 (Morning session 10.00am – 12.00am)

Evening session 5.00pm – 5.30pm)

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£49.88k - £58.78k per annum