Vice Principal - Pastoral

Post Title:                           Vice Principal - Pastoral

Start Date:                         September 2024

Hours of Work:                  Full Time/ Permanent

Salary Grade:                     Leadership Scale, Point 16 – 21, £71,098 to £79,893

Responsible to:                 Principal

Conditions of Service:     United Learning Contract

Join our dynamic and forward-thinking team at The Lowry Academy, where passion meets purpose in shaping the future of young minds. Be part of one of the country’s fastest improving schools – THE most improved school in Salford.

Following our most recent Ofsted inspection visit, we have been awarded Good, across all areas, reflecting our commitment to providing a high-quality education and nurturing environment for our students.

Candidates are invited to visit the school by arrangement. Please contact Jannat Abutaeva (HR) Jannat.Abutaeva@lowryacademy.org.uk

We are seeking to appoint Vice Principal- Pastoral with a track record of impactful strategic leadership with an ability to demonstrate school improvement and a resilience to deal with the challenges of whole school strategic leadership and the day-to-day management of student behaviour. We need a leader who can develop a culture of good behaviour at through a well-thought out and coherent strategy.

We are looking for an excellent leader; someone who has an aptitude for dealing with students and parents in a calm professional manner, modelling their approach for their team and all staff. The successful candidate will lead on behaviour improvement, will further develop school culture, and promote excellent relationships in the school. The successful candidate will also lead and work alongside senior colleagues.

As a school leader the successful candidate will be inspiring and deliberately focused on strategies which enable and enhance improvements in the quality of education provided by the school, not dealing with behaviour in isolation. As with all senior leaders, the candidate appointed will need to be an active participant in all areas of school leadership, improvement, and strategic discussion; able to show flexibility and commitment; model the qualities and behaviour of a school leader; work well in a team and have a sense of humour.

The Vice Principal - Pastoral will be a prominent, visible presence around the academy and will promote strong relationships with all stakeholders. Being able to articulate the vision of The Lowry Academy and the centrality of its pastoral care will be an integral part of the role of the Vice Principal - Pastoral.

At The Lowry Academy we have high expectations and believe every single child can achieve. Our staff are highly professional, and we are relentlessly ensuring those high standards are maintained so teachers can teach, and students can learn. We prepare children for future success and ask students to live our values of Aspiration, Respect, Confidence, Creativity and Resilience. To maintain this strong culture, we have non-negotiable expectations:

· All students arrive on time for their lessons. Students must arrive on time to be admitted to the lesson.

· All students are expected to have full equipment for every lesson.

· All students must think hard and work hard in lessons. Students are not allowed to opt out of their learning.

· The school has a straightforward approach to disruption to lessons. We follow a warn-remove policy where any student who disrupts learning, having been previously warned and given the opportunity to correct their behaviour, including opting out of work, is removed from the lesson.

· The Academy has zero tolerance for any act of defiance or disrespect towards staff or other students.

What can we offer?

· Competitive Teachers Pay Range, United Learning Trust’s Pay Policy applies.

·  The opportunity to save money across hundreds of major retailers, through Perkbox.

· Disruption-free learning: a culture where teachers can teach, and students can learn.

· 5 INSET days per year +3 additional planning days each term, dedicated to subject knowledge development and planning/resource development to support in planning, resourcing, moderation and most importantly, workload.

· The benefits of working in a successfully multi-academy trust and full access to ongoing CPD

· Access to our full programme of teacher development CPD and coaching as appropriate.

· Private Medical Insurance

For further information about this exciting role please download the attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please complete the application form.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Why Us? 

We are a caring yet ambitious academy at the heart of our local community. We provide all our students with opportunities to strive toward academic excellence and develop interpersonal skills in order to make a positive contribution to society. We have a calm and supportive environment characterised by respectful relationships between staff and students. Through our clear focus on delivering excellent academic standards for all students, we put high-quality teaching and learning at the core of our approach. 

In joining The Lowry Academy, you will also be joining United Learning, a successful Multi Academy Trust. United Learning schools work as a team and achieve more thorough sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum, and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff’s wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call, the best in everyone.

 The Lowry Academy is committed to creating the best place to work, where all staff can reach their full potential. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation. We look forward to receiving your application.

The Lowry is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of its students. This responsibility necessitates a child protection policy and robust procedures. Each student’s welfare is of paramount importance. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be read on our website.