[ref. b84214404] Assistant Principal - Culture & Behaviour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about fostering a culture that enables all students to maximise their achievements across the spectrum of school life? Ensuring students receive outstanding inclusive pastoral support to take full advantage of the broadest possible education, overcome barriers to learning and be successful in their own right?
We have a rare and exciting new opportunity to appoint an ambitious, dedicated, and experienced leader to the post of Assistant Principal – Culture & Behaviour.
A committed individual who can bring excellent pastoral leadership skills to Rainhill, you will be a strategic leader who can drive whole school improvement and has a proven track record of impactful change.
You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills with a genuine commitment to to helping all students achieve success in all its forms. Have a good understanding the importance of high visibility and active engagement with stakeholders and be committed to promoting our core values of Learn, Think, Contribute and Care..
Our School’s mission is the ‘Pursuit of Excellence’ in everything that we do and our core values; Learn, Think, Contribute, Care, embody our determination to ensure that all our students receive a first-class education that enables them to take their place in society confidently.We are a popular and high achieving school on the edge of Merseyside with a very strong reputation locally and significantly over subscribed.
Please find further details in our Applicant Information pack and by visiting our website
Please return application forms to jobs@rainhillhigh.org.uk
What the school offers its staff
Criteria
Leadership
Recent successful experience of senior leadership/middle leadership
Experience of leading and managing high performing pastoral team (s)
The ability to coach and mentor teachers and support staff to ensure a strong culture for learning
Ability of working collaboratively and successfully with colleagues to build trust and openness
Ability to stretch all students in their ‘Pursuit of Excellence’
Subject leadership
Qualifications/ Skills and Abilities
Strong academic background (Degree level)
Qualified Teaching Status/QTLS
Evidence of further professional development at a higher level (e.g., NPQSL, NPQBC)
Awareness of the national educational agendas (e.g., Ofsted changes, SEND, DFE policies)
Extensive pastoral experience demonstrating impact in whole school areas
Enthusiasm and ability to motivate and inspire students and staff
Experience of working effectively with external stakeholders
Knowledge of local systems and structures to support inclusive practice
Experience of working with and supporting families to secure excellent behaviour
Understanding of methods of monitoring and evaluating school performance data, including
interpretation and analysis.
Personal Qualities
Personal resilience, persistence, perseverance and high expectations of all pupils
Highly organised, reliable, and diligent
Ability to think strategically
Strong interpersonal skills
Energetic and enthusiastic
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Quality of Teaching
Excellent classroom practitioner
National Standards
Evidence all of the Teaching Standards in routine practice
Ethos and Extra Curricular and Curriculum enrichment
Evidence of inclusive practice and commitment to safeguarding and the welfare of students
Commitment to Equal Opportunities
Ability to understand and demonstrate commitment to equality and diversity
Further details about the role
Responsible for creating a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life, encouraging high standards of behaviour from pupils, built on widely understood and implemented culture and behaviour systems, routines, rules and processes that are understood by staff and pupils and clearly demonstrated by all adults in school.
To share with the Principal and other Vice Principals responsibility for all strategic and operational leadership of the school.
Responsible to: Vice Principal Culture, Behaviour, Attendance & SafeguardingResponsible for: Senior Progress Leaders, Year Progress Leaders, Year Student Manager, Student
Leadership, Behaviour Intervention staff, Safer School PO, External services associated
Senior Leadership Responsibilities
Uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct- Build positive and respectful relationships across the school community
- Serve in the best interests of the school’s pupils
Under the direction of the Principal:
- Create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life
- Encourage high standards of behaviour from pupils, built on rules and routines that are understood by staff and pupils and clearly demonstrated by all adults in school
- Use consistent and fair approaches to managing behaviour, in line with the school’s behaviour policy
- Plan, implement, monitor and review a curriculum that promotes high expectations, recognises success and desired behaviours. ATL and intervenes effectively where this is not the case
- Lead and manage the House system to promote the development of character (positive personal traits, dispositions and virtues that informs their motivation and guides their conduct).
- Lead and manage tutorial time and assemblies
- To lead and manage the curriculum offer that sits outside the normal timetable to and alongside the strong pastoral provision already in place.
- Lead and manage the planning and full implementation of extra curricular activities 11-16 to reflect ‘raising aspirations
- Lead and manage the Rainhill Experience as part of the behaviour curriculum
- Effective leadership and management of culture and behaviour (including punctuality to lessons) and liaison related external agencies as appropriate, including bullying
- Oversight of rewards, reports, detentions, and other sanctions
- Ensure that staff understand, have the skills and are able to plan to mitigate the various barriers to learning
- Ensure the effective management of exclusions and suspensions
- Ensure the effective management of ‘intervention’ so that behaviour and the culture improve for all
- Ensure the effective management of ‘reflection’ so that behaviour and the culture improve
- Reasonable adjustment for SEND
- Management and QA of BfL, unstructured time, duty teams (Before, during and after school day)
- School parliament and all aspects of student leadership
Additional Duties
To attend all additional meetings and evening events suitable for this post.
Any other duty deemed reasonable, as directed by the Principal/Vice Principal.
Review of Performance
Appraisal review will focus on the post holders’ responsibilities, and whole school performance. There is
recognition that however good we are at our jobs, we should embrace the notion of ‘The Pursuit of Excellence’.
Generic Responsibilities of all Rainhill Staff- To work consistently to uphold the School’s vision and values.
- To work in a co-operative and polite manner with all stakeholders.
- To work with Students in a courteous, positive, caring and responsible manner at all times.
- To follow the child protection procedures. To ensure that children’s safety and wellbeing is never compromised.
- To be polite, cooperative and positive when communicating to other staff.
- To take an active and positive role in the school’s commitment to the development of staff, and their annual review procedures.
- To work with visitors to the School in such a way that it enhances the reputation of the school.
- To seek to improve the quality of the School’s service.
- To present oneself in a professional way that is consistent with the values and expectations to the school.
Commitment to safeguarding
Rainhill High School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as well as promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion; where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosing & Barring Certificate and online searches as part of our Safer Recruitment & Selection Procedures.