Vice Principal (Educational Excellence & Innovation)
Surbiton High School
Kingston upon Thames
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive - based on the Surbiton High School Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 10 November 2024
Job overview
Vice Principal – Educational Excellence & Innovation
Reporting Line: Principal
Start date: April or September 2025
Tenure: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive - based on the Surbiton High School Pay Scale
The core purpose of the role of Vice Principal (Educational Excellence & Innovation) at Surbiton High School is to lead strategically on learning and teaching, with a focus on innovation and digital strategy, ensuring a tailored approach for every pupil.
The role involves leading the strategic development of learning and teaching, ensuring pedagogical practices reflect the School’s ethos and promote interdependent learning and creative thinking. Responsibilities include quality assurance, leading innovative whole-school projects to enhance the School’s educational offerings, and evaluating current learning experiences using evidence-based research. Collaboration with the Vice Principal (Academic) on curriculum matters and designing INSET and CPD offerings that promote outstanding learning are also key aspects.
The postholder will manage the development of assessment, reporting, and tracking in the Senior School, staying updated on relevant research and technologies for the monitoring of pupil progress. This includes implementing effective reporting systems, coordinating reporting processes, and analysing test data and exam results. Additionally, the role involves developing a common approach to tracking pupil progress, collaborating on academic intervention strategies, mentoring Heads of Department, and overseeing the coordination and monitoring of homework.
The postholder will be instrumental in the development of a comprehensive understanding amongst the staff body of advancing technologies and their implementation in an educational setting. Responsibilities include promoting digital literacy among pupils and staff, sharing best practices for technology and AI in learning, and implementing relevant structures and policies. Keeping staff updated on digital education trends, collaborating with staff to enhance digital technology use, developing AI training plans, advocating for AI to support staff wellbeing, and ensuring data protection compliance are important aspects of the role.
The Vice Principal is a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) at Surbiton High School. The postholder will be involved in promoting the school to various stakeholders, with visible involvement in events and participation in pupil and staff recruitment.
The ideal candidate for the Vice Principal role at Surbiton High School would have a good first degree, a postgraduate teaching qualification, and evidence of continuous professional development. You should possess dynamic leadership and strong communication and organisational skills with a focus on maintaining positive relationships. A passion for digital innovation and AI and keeping up with innovative teaching methods is essential. Personal qualities we are seeking include a positive and energetic approach, commitment to the School's ethos and vision, and a dedication to professional development. You will have high expectations for pupil achievement and conduct and the ability to promote the School to parents and the local community.
For a detailed outline of the role, please see the full Job Description and Person Specification.
For a detailed outline of the role, please see the full Job Description and Person Specification.
To Apply:
Please apply online by clicking on the following:
Application Deadline: Midnight, Sunday 10 November 2024
Interviews dates: First round: Friday15 November 2024
Second round: Friday 22 November 2024
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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