Vice Principal - Curriculum & Standards

Vice Principal – Curriculum & Standards

If you share our vision of ‘Excellence by all, for all’ and are looking for a purpose driven trust that will help you deliver real impact for young people, we really need to meet as we have some life-changing work to do together. But we appreciate it’s not all about what you can do for us, our academic standards and our community, so we are committed to helping you succeed through exceptional personal development and support, and a culture of real team collaboration.

Oasis Academy Lord's Hill is a local Secondary school, serving children aged 11-16 in the Lord’s Hill and surrounding communities of Southampton. We are dedicated to developing proud, determined and kind students who are the best versions of themselves in an educational setting where we celebrate diversity and relentlessly focus on the attainment of all of our children. We thrive in an environment full of different thinkers and burgeoning potential. A multi-cultural hub of learning with fantastic facilities and a newly forming team of professional educators and support staff that have the best interests and safety of our young charges firmly at the centre of everything we do.

Oasis Academies exist to provide a rich and balanced educational environment which caters for the whole person - academically, vocationally, socially, morally, spiritually, physically, emotionally and environmentally. Our task is to serve our students, as well as to provide a learning hub for the entire community. In this way we will raise aspirations, unlock potential and work to achieve excellence through encouraging a ‘can do’ culture which nurtures confident and competent people.

We recognise that providing teaching and learning for all is not always easy and as an academy we deal with any challenging situations as a collaborative team that supports and helps out as needed. It’s what makes us strong and confident about our future and that of our young people.

What’s in it for you?

If you really are the sort of person who is motivated to want to make a genuine positive impact to young lives and has ambition to develop your expertise further – we can help you get there.

• At Oasis we offer exceptional personal development opportunities both within our Lord’s Hill Academy school and beyond across.
• We invest in our people to ensure they are properly trained and informed in their area of expertise and have every opportunity to progress further – even up to Regional Director and beyond. There is no barrier and no blocker to progression if you seek it.
• The Lord’s Hill team is ambitious, enthused and determined to deliver the very best education for our young people and being part of a motivated and inspired team makes for great results and brings personal reward and satisfaction.

The role of Vice Principal in charge of Curriculum and Standards is to ensure the Academy is consistently delivering ambitious and high-quality lessons that motivate and inspire all our students to fulfil their potential.

There is a full job description attached, but as well as being degree educated with a PGCE qualification we are interested in evidence of other experience and personal attributes, including:

• You will be an accomplished strategic leader with expertise in delivering world-class standards of education.
• You will be able to provide examples of having set the direction of and having directly implemented strategies to raise academic standards.
• As Vice Principal you will be ready to step up to manage the Academy and to deputise for the Principal as required.
• You’ll be adept at motivating staff to improve standards across their curriculum area with an ability to hold staff to account through effective coaching, measurement and monitoring
• Above all you will be a visibly supportive member of the academy Leadership Team and will share the vision of an innovative, high-performing and emotionally intelligent organisation that sets our young people up for success.

If this sounds like you and you can’t wait to change lives – we would love to hear from you by the deadline of Monday 21st October @ 5pm. Interviews will take place 24/25 October. We encourage school visits so you can see and experience life at Lord’s Hill – please get in contact with us by contacting Dawn Warwick at dawn.warwick@oasislordshill.org to arrange a visit for w/c 14th October. You can read more about our school at www.oasisacademylordshill.org