Outwood Academy Redcar - a welcoming and supportive 11-16 academy based in the coastal town of Redcar in the north-east – is looking for a Principal to provide leadership and strategic direction, to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, which promotes the highest possible standards of achievement.
Key Responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for all delegated management and operational activity of the academy.
- Provide enthusiastic, innovative and consistent leadership to the academy and its leadership team.
- Work positively with the community to ensure the best possible outcomes for all students, especially those who are the most vulnerable.
- Implement the Trust’s policies, ensuring they are rigorous and sustainable, and strategies in order to transform the outcome for students at the academy.
- Ensure that students are healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve their maximum potential, and achieve economic and personal well-being once they leave the academy.
- Develop the reputation of the academy, locally, regionally and nationally.
- Act as an ex-officio member of the Academy Council.
- Ensure that a modern, up-to-date curriculum is developed and implemented and that curriculum delivery is translated into effective learning and assessment practice.
- Encourage and promote innovation in educational provision through the commissioning and delivery of services, ensuring that the academy can meet changing needs and demands consistent with government guidelines and requirements.
- Ensure that high-quality provision is available to all students regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, disability, economic background or special educational needs.
Skills and Experience
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
- An ability to drive and deliver transformational and cultural change.
- A clear understanding of what constitutes an outstanding school and what needs to be done to maintain that standard.
- A deep knowledge and clear understanding of educational legislations, new innovation and developments.
- An innovative leader, with a clear understanding of education opportunity and how it can be translated into practical reality.
- An outstanding, collaborative leader with the ability to forge positive relationships in order to promote success.
- An enthusiastic leader, committed to ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and the community.
- The ability to build a sustainable workforce of high-quality staff and leaders.
- The ability to provide clear direction and shared purpose for all children, staff and stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills with all children, staff and stakeholders.
- A competitive salary with pay progression.
- A fantastic pension and additional benefits.
- Flexible family‑friendly policies from day one.
- Wellbeing strategy and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Our Workload Charter with guaranteed CPD every week and much more (for teaching roles).
Salary: L28 – L34, £104,059 - £120,532 (negotiable for an exceptional candidate).
Contract and Hours: Permanent, Full Time.
Location: Kirkleatham Lane, Redcar, North Yorkshire, TS10 4AB.
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