Vice Principal: Community Ethos and Personal Development at Grace College in North East

Grace College are looking to recruit a Vice Principal: Community Ethos and Personal Development to join our Senior Management Team. We have high expectations for our students as they grow and develop and all our staff provide important role models to them in terms of positive attitude, work ethic and diligence.

The successful candidate will be responsible to the Principal for:

• Ensuring the provision of highly effective personal development curriculum that deepens student’s knowledge over time across all areas of the curriculum including careers, with a particular emphasis on:

• Supporting leaders and staff to deliver an exceptional personal development curriculum including the provision of careers education, ensuring we have ambitious provision of the Gatsby Benchmarks and meet the Baker Clause.
• Ensuring that as part of the curriculum and wider offer the teaching of SMSC, RSE, fundamental British Values and protected characteristics prepare students consistently well for adult life and enables students to make wise and positive choices now, particularly in relation to relationships with each other and engagement online and that the personal development curriculum is developed and reviewed considering contextual safeguarding concerns.
• Ensure that through the provision of appropriate careers advice and guidance all students have a post 16 destination and that students have ambitious aspirations for their future, including attending the Associated Sixth Form.

• Leading on the development and quality assurance of the co-curricular programme so that there are a wide range of opportunities available to students during the school day, after school and during school holidays.
• Leading on the development of the Grace College entitlement ensuring that barriers to accessing co-curricular do not limit the engagement of students in a diverse range of opportunities, this will include leading along with other colleagues on events such as sports day and presentation evening.
• Ensuring that Grace College is an asset to the local community by engaging with community partners and organisations to identify how they can contribute to the wider development of our students and ensuring that Grace College impacts the local community positively in a range of ways.

• Oversight of the acts and programmes of collective worship including our daily broadcast Good Morning Grace, which features the daily act of worship, college and community services including the Christmas and Easter Service ensuring students are able to engage meaningfully and reflect deeply.
• Ensure that Grace College is a school where character education is explicitly ‘taught and caught’, so that young people feel welcome, safe and experience a positive and enriching school life, leading to the school receiving the Character Quality Mark plus.
• Through the line management of middle leaders ensure that all students have a positive and inclusive experience of a Christian ethos education through the wider life of the college and through an excellent and engaging Religious Studies curriculum at all key stages.

• Collaborating with other senior colleagues and governors in the process of development planning, self-evaluation and the recording of activities and achievements, and effectively tackling challenges as they arise, such as parent complaints, staff discipline matters and student challenges in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team.
• Working in partnership with others within and beyond the college in order to further the reputation of the school and the trust as a leading Christian Ethos School of Character for the Whole community.
• Deputising for the Principal in all aspects of the life of the College, as required and in particular leading on health and safety on behalf of the Principal.
• Including but not limited to the maintenance, development, and promotion of the ethos of the College with staff, students and parents.
• Ensuring that the parental engagement strategy including communication is high quality and effective.
• Line management of academic departments as required.

Benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Daily lunch allowance
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Free parking
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.