Assistant Principal (Pupil Development & Well-being)
Surbiton High School
Kingston upon Thames
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive - based on the Surbiton High School Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 October 2024
Job overview
Job Title: Assistant Principal (Pupil Development & Well-being)
Job Purpose: To provide outstanding leadership to the Senior School; leading strategically on pupil development and well-being
Reporting Line: Senior Vice Principal
Start Date: January 2025
Tenure: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive – based on the Surbiton High School Pay Scale
This exciting senior leadership pastoral role involves leading strategically on pupil development and well-being in the Senior School, contributing to the well-being strand of the whole-school plan, and staying updated on trends in young people’s mental health.
The key responsibilities include working with the Senior Leadership Team to develop policies and coaching Heads of Year and the PSHE & RSE Lead in order to enhance pastoral support. The role also requires overseeing the Form Tutor Teams, collaborating across departments to integrate well-being into the curriculum, managing external mental health education relationships, providing leadership and appraisal for pastoral staff, supporting with safeguarding for Key Stages 3 and 4, and liaising with external bodies.
Additional duties include coordinating the school’s rewards and sanctions system, investigating behavior incidents where appropriate, supporting the Student Governing Body, and teaching up to eight periods weekly.
As a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the Assistant Principal will contribute to the school’s vision and strategy, ensuring core values remain central to decision-making. The postholder will line-manage academic departments as directed by the Principal and perform other SLT duties as required.
This position requires a dynamic leader with strong management skills, capable of building rapport with pupils, maintaining high levels of organisation and confidentiality, and possessing excellent communication and presentation abilities. An awareness of the role of well-being in raising standards is essential, and experience in leading school-wide well-being initiatives would be an advantage.
Closing date for Applications: Midnight, Sunday 29 September 2024
Interviews dates: First round: Thursday 3 October 2024
Second round: TBC W/C 7 October if required
Surbiton High School is culturally diverse and are fully committed to celebrating, respecting and learning about inclusion and diversity throughout the community.
Surbiton High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, Disclosure and Barring Service and Online/Social media Searches
Please note that the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.
For any queries relating to the role or your application, please email
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About Surbiton High School
- Surbiton High School
- 13-15 Surbiton Crescent, Kingston upon Thames
- Surrey
- KT1 2JT
- United Kingdom
Surbiton High School aims to inspire, encourage and empower its staff and pupils to be the very best they can be.
We are a school where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, where we look beyond the A* to offer a breadth of opportunity which allows every pupil to flourish and every staff member to develop and succeed.
Surbiton High School is a school “brimming with energy and joie de vivre.” (ISI Inspection Report). We pride ourselves on being an extraordinary community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. We feed our pupils’ minds, but we also care passionately about their character development and happiness. Our approach to education means that Surbiton High School pupils achieve the very best exam results and are also compassionate, authentic young people with strong values, keen to make a positive difference in the world.
Our inspirational staff are dedicated to delivering a rich curriculum and programme of co-curricular activities which challenge our pupils to explore ideas for themselves. Whether engaged in learning in the classroom, or through musical, artistic, sporting, enterprise or charitable activities, our pupils are constantly encouraged to connect with the wider world and embrace new experiences to build their confidence. All staff are expected and encouraged to play a full part in the academic, co-curricular and pastoral life of the School.
At Surbiton High School, we aim to bring out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and this resonates in the investment that we make in our colleagues. We recognise the importance of continuous learning and training and the School has a senior member of staff dedicated to supporting continuing professional development. We have a comprehensive whole School and individual INSET programme in place, including support for School Direct trainees as well as Newly Qualified Teachers (in our role as a regional NQT induction centre).
We actively encourage our staff to continue to develop their own expertise in the classroom and support their professional development through coaching and mentoring alongside professional qualifications such as: NPQML, NPQSL and MA courses in educational leadership. The School has a clearly developed leadership structure, offering extensive opportunities for career development and progression, including Heads of Department (Including Deputies) and Heads of Year (including Deputies) as well as Co-ordinators with specific responsibilities such as: Gifted and Talented, Oxbridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Expeditions.
Surbiton High School has approximately 1600 pupils aged between 4 and 18. Our Preparatory Schools are divided into the Girls’ Preparatory School and Boys’ Preparatory School, and the Senior School is girls only from age 11 upwards.
We are looking for applicants who are passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils and working with us to become the number one school of choice in South West London.
Acting Principal
Hannah Horwood
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