Assistant Principal
Canterbury College
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- £55,179 - £60,251 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
Job overview
(3 Posts)
14/66 37 hours per week. Established Post. £55,179 - £60,251 per annum Rachel Mann Canterbury College is seeking dynamic and inspiring individuals to lead a relentless drive to improve the quality of teaching and learning across substantial parts of the curriculum.
Canterbury College has three newly created Assistant Principal posts who form part of the senior management team of the College and report to the Vice/Deputy Principal for Further Education Quality and Curriculum.
Canterbury College is a thriving and vibrant college that attracts 12,000 students from a wide catchment area, which covers half of the districts in Kent. The College is rated as financially outstanding and has embarked on the final stage of its impressive campus re-development. The College operates predominantly as a single campus, based in the heart of the historic city of Canterbury. It also has a small outlying campus on the Isle of Sheppey and some small collaborative centres with community, prison and project based provision.
The College is making rapid improvement, but has a considerable journey to make before it achieves its aim of becoming outstanding and the best in the South East. The new Assistant Principals and the Section Managers who they line manage will be the driving force behind this journey. The Assistant Principals will be strategic leads for quality and the curriculum, with the responsibility for developing innovative and employment focussed study programmes responsive to local and regional need.
Each Assistant Principal will be an excellent communicator of vision and strategy, responsible for the learning of around 3,000 students and for leading a team of 140 teaching and support staff. The development of those staff will be a key focus of the role.
How to Apply
Please download the attached application form and return by email to recruitment@canterburycollege.ac.uk or in the post to:- Human Resources Department, Canterbury College, Canterbury, Kent. CT1 3AJ. Alternatively, please visit our website at www.canterburycollege.ac.uk
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) and to provide proof of their right to work in the UK.
About Canterbury College
The city of Canterbury has an enviable heritage which includes Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Church of England and the most visited tourist site outside of London. The city is experiencing somewhat of a renaissance with its numerous housing and shopping centre developments each having an historic twist and character. The city is a thriving centre of education with its three university campuses, foreign language schools and respected local schools. Canterbury and its surrounding district has the perfect blend of city, coast and countryside not to mention being at the gateway to Europe.
Canterbury College is a thriving general further education (FE) college which provides academic and vocational education and training. The mission of the college is “to be the very best in teaching and learning”. The college is responsive to employers and local needs, has gained Action for Business status and is a key provider of Train to Gain. In recent years the college has increasingly planned and met for growth against national and local targets.
The college has 15,800 students with courses provided from foundation to degree level. Some 5,300 of students attend the college on a full-time basis, of whom 73% are aged 16 to 18. Growth in 16-18 provision is expected to increase by 20% over the next few years.
Kent has a selective education system and the college has a significant amount of A level provision. Some 90% of the 16 to 18 year old students at the college come from 20 non-selective feeder schools, all but one of which have sixth forms.
The college has a thriving higher education faculty with some 750 students and has courses validated with the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christchurch University.
The college is a leading member of several Kent schools partnerships and has a sizable 14-16 student population in its own right. This is a significant area for the college and ten-fold growth in provision is planned over the next ten years.
Students are drawn from across East Kent, mostly from Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Sandwich, Deal, Faversham, Sittingbourne and Sheppey. In addition to the main site at Canterbury, the college operates a satellite college at Sheppey together with a number of outreach centres.
Our staff and managers are empowered and we were recently re-accredited with the Investors in People award. At all levels, our staff recognise their part in the life and purpose of the college and have an unwavering commitment to our students. The student union is recognised as an exemplar in the further education sector.
The college campus is being transformed through a phased redevelopment project, which will see a major milestone in January 2008, with the opening of 10,132m² of new buildings to complement those already brought into use over the past year or so (representing some 12,000 m²).
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