Vice Principal - Quality of Education
Leeds City Academy
Leeds
- £75,331 - £83,081 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Grade L20 to L24
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/01/2025
- Apply by:
- 17 October 2024
Job overview
Job Title: Vice Principal – Quality of Education
Grade: L20 to L24 – £75,331 to £83,081
Hours: Full time
The Vice Principal will be an outstanding leader, who is able to share the vision for our academy and who will inspire and empower others, to make a significant contribution to the academy’s overall effectiveness. The postholder is driven by a commitment to creating the best possible educational opportunities for the young people of Leeds City Academy in order to raise aspirations and transform lives.
You will be an experienced leader with a proven track record of sustained impact and influence in your area of specialism. You will demonstrate a solid understanding in your formulation and implementation of strategy, evidenced by sustained and significant school-wide improvement.
You will work with the Principal and the Senior Leadership team on the strategic development of the academy, with a particular focus on the continued improvement of the Quality of Education across Leeds City Academy.
Acting on significant delegated authority from the Principal, you will ensure that the quality of Teaching, Learning and Assessment provided across the academy leads to students
a) making outstanding progress from their starting points resulting in excellent outcomes in the 1-9 examinations and b) developing the 6 In Partnership Values that underpin the academy’s ethos, values and aspirations for all students.
You will closely lead, monitor, support and challenge both Senior and Middle Leaders, holding them stringently to account in order to tackle any areas of underperformance across the curriculum, in addition to leading on the Quality of Education Strategic Plan.
About Leeds City Academy
- Leeds City Academy
- Bedford Field, Woodhouse Cliff, Leeds
- West Yorkshire
- LS6 2LG
- United Kingdom
Leeds City Academy is a mixed and culturally diverse secondary school in West Yorkshire providing places for students aged 11-16 years. This secondary school situated in Leeds has approximately 811 students on record.
Leeds City Academy belongs to the growing, dynamic and transformational White Rose Academies Trust which is sponsored by Leeds City College and forms a key part of the ground-breaking Luminate Education Group.
Principal
Richard Chattoe
Values and vision
The Academy has established a unique, positive, and transformative ‘In Partnership’ culture which truly sets the school apart from others. This culture is founded and bult upon six key values that each drive and permeate everything the Academy does: behaviour, relationships and strategic decision making. The Academy In Partnership values are affectionally referred to as the DNA of Leeds City Academy and this is something the wonderful students, staff, parents and community are immensely proud of. The Academy strongly believe that their vision and strong culture will help not only to transform the lives of young people but transform the local communities which they so passionately serve.
The Academy has enjoyed an impressive period of transformation across the last 4 years and was judged as ‘Good’ overall by OFSTED in April 2019, securing an Outstanding judgement for the quality of Leadership and Management. The report commented that ‘Exceptional leadership from the highly skilled senior leadership team has improved all aspects of the school since the last inspection. The school’s culture is now inclusive and aspirational. Pupils develop the resilience needed to rise to the challenges set by staff. The school has been transformed and its overall effectiveness improved.’
We continue this journey of transformation and are determined to provide an exceptional quality of education and culture for all students at Leeds City Academy, with the ambition that all students excel both academically and as aspirational and inspirational young people. There is no better time to join Leeds City Academy, as a colleague, a leader or as a student.
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