Vice Principal – Inclusion
Chelsea Academy
Kensington and Chelsea
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Spine Point (inner London) L19-L24 depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015 or earlier
- Apply by:
- 21 April 2015
Job overview
We are looking for an outstanding pastoral leader to become our new Vice Principal with responsibility for inclusion. Ideally, you will hold a similar role at a senior leadership level and be looking to progress your career for the next level in education. We can offer fantastic students, a dynamic friendly and committed staff and a highly-ambitious and talented leadership team that wants to ensure we build on our outstanding Ofsted inspection and become a truly great school. Our award-winning academy building is a great place to work and we are easily accessible from Imperial Wharf station (Overground), Chelsea Harbour (boat) and a 10 minute walk from Fulham Broadway (District line).
Chelsea Academy is a diverse inner-city school located just off the Kings Road and is co-sponsored by both the London Diocesan Board for Schools and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We combine traditional educational values and high academic and behaviour standards with an innovative approach to learning and teaching and a strong commitment to student leadership. The Academy’s specialism is the sciences.
As a Church of England sponsored academy we welcome staff, pupils and parents from all faiths but expect all employees to have regard for our Christian values that are demonstrated through the taught and non-taught curriculum.
In particular, candidates should have:
- Experience of working as a member of a secondary school leadership team as a deputy headteacher, assistant headteacher or equivalent.
- Be an outstanding teacher with the ability to inspire students in their learning and secure consistently impressive examination results.
- Have a successful and varied track record of school leadership and experience of working in more than one institution.
- Possess proven ability to lead school-wide initiatives.
- Show evidence of continued educational professional development, in particular with regard to school leadership.
- Have relevant experience of working in comprehensive, urban and multi-cultural environments.
- Demonstrate success in raising attainment and standards of teaching and learning.
- Possess strong leadership and management skills.
- Have sound technical understanding of school leadership issues, the Ofsted inspection framework, changes to the curriculum and assessment requirements.
- Have the ability to make accurate judgments with regard to the quality of learning and teaching and student progress.
- Have demonstrable experience of leading others in successful curriculum or pastoral innovation and an enthusiasm for developing innovative approaches to learning, teaching, mentoring and guidance.
- Have experience of working in a school with a distinctive Christian ethos or the ability to articulate how such an ethos could be developed and the capacity to contribute to this.
How to apply
Further information and application forms are available at: www.chelsea-academy.org/jobs.
You can also contact the Academy by telephone on 020 7376 3019 or email recruitment@chelsea-academy.org.
If you have any further questions about this post then please feel free to contact Mrs. Srividya Srivathsan (HR Manager) who can put you in contact with the relevant staff member (use the recruitment email for this). Requests for informal discussions with the Principal are welcome and can be arranged by the HR Manager.
Visits to the Academy are available during 4 slots and should be booked via my PA (Katie Hook) via telephone extn 0002 or email katie.hook@chelsea-academy.org
Monday 30th March at 4pm
Tuesday 31st March at 9.30am
Each visit will involve a 15 minute presentation from the Principal and a tour of the Academy with a member of the leadership team.
Please note that Chelsea Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to satisfy an enhanced police / Security Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check prior to starting employment with the academy
Closing Date: Tuesday 21st April 2015 at 12.00 noon
Interview Dates: Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th April
Matt Williams
Principal
About Chelsea Academy
Introduction
Thank you for your interest in joining Chelsea Academy as a member of staff. We hope that the information below, our website, corporate video and careers video will give you a flavour of our Academy. We are a warm and inclusive place to work and have a settled and happy staff. We invest time, energy and resources into all our staff so that they feel happy and professionally stimulated as well as supported as employees. Everyone who works at Chelsea Academy gets the following benefits:
- Private healthcare
- A laptop
- A free lunch
- Access to employee assistance
- Flourish Wednesday activities
- Bespoke professional development
- Access to a cutting edge learning platform
- Relentless focus on pedagogy and curriculum development
- Working in a fabulous building with amazing facilities
As well as taking care of you as a person we also offer fantastic students and embedded behaviour and teaching and learning policies. We know our students well and we know what works in the classroom and what doesn't. Through a network of support we ensure that all staff have an induction period and are given training and development on how we do things at Chelsea Academy. Whilst there is no 'one way' of doing things here, teaching staff work collaboratively to ensure a rigorous focus on teaching, learning and assessment. Our approach works, our results improved year on year and at both GCSE and A level we are now in the top 20% of schools nationally.
As well as a commitment to academic success for all of our students we also ensure that we have an Extended Curriculum programme. We work with many agencies and organisations to support our students and have strong links with both local and national employers. We want all our students to flourish and be prepared for their next steps.
Our vision, mission and values
Chelsea Academy is Anchored in Christ
Our Vision: Learning together to flourish
Our Mission: Work Hard, Be Kind, No Excuses
Our Values: Servant Leadership, Perseverance, Joy, Forgiveness, Charity
Throughout their time at Chelsea Academy each student will flourish, benefitting from a rich academic curriculum and strong pastoral care. Learning will excite, inspire and challenge. Beyond the taught curriculum there will be many opportunities for students to develop their interests and passions. We aspire to acknowledge and embrace vulnerability. All students will develop: resilience, wisdom, hope and skills with which to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.
Further Information
Chelsea Academy is sponsored by the London Diocesan Board for Schools and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We are a warm, friendly and inclusive school with a strong Christian ethos and have a track record of excellent examination success and first class staff development. We combine traditional values and high standards with an innovative approach to learning and teaching and a strong commitment to staff development. The Academy’s specialism is the sciences and we also offer 10% of our places to students with a musical aptitude. Visitors to the school have consistently commented on the high standards of behaviour, enthusiasm for learning and confidence of our students, as well as the Academy’s stunning new £43m building.
Our most recent Ofsted inspection in September 2023, saw us being judged strongly good in all areas. Our current SIAMS grading is outstanding. Recent outcomes at GCSE and A Level demonstrate strong progress for all students with the Academy’s GCSE results this summer being the highest the Academy has ever achieved. However, we are much more than a successful, academically focused school. We believe in educating the whole child and our Christian values of joy, perseverance, servant leadership, charity and forgiveness underpin everything we stand for. It is important that all of our staff, whether they are teachers or not, work closely with our young people and ensure that they are successful in all that they do. We are looking for staff who will always go the extra mile for our young people and believe that education happens both in and out of the classroom.
Chelsea Academy is an excellent place to work and we are looking for talented individuals to join our team. If you don't see a post that you are interested in then please do contact us and ask to be kept on our recruitment database.
Current Awards and Accreditation
We are currently the proud holders of the following awards or accreditation:
- SIAMS Outstanding - July 2012 and July 2017
- Investors in People Gold - expires 2020
- SSAT TEEP Ambassador School
- Quality in Careers Award - July 2018
- NACE Challenge Award - 2021
- Rolls Royce Science Finalist 2018-2019
- Ofsted Good - September 2023
You can find further information about the Academy on our website. Links from this section of the website include our SIAMS report, Ofsted report and performance data.
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