Vice Principal - Kircubbin Integrated Primary School, Newtownards
Client: Education Authority
Location: Newtownards, United Kingdom
Job Category: Education
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 391ae6c9d613
Job Views: 5
Posted: 16.03.2025
Expiry Date: 30.04.2025
Job Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION
The successful candidate will work within the agreed Terms and Conditions of Service for Vice-Principals. The Vice-Principal will be required to deputise for the Principal when necessary and take an active part in all aspects of school life.
In addition to a full-time teaching commitment and membership of the School Leadership Team, the Vice-Principal’s duties will include:
* Leading learning through example by high standards of teaching and learning.
* Assisting the Principal in all areas of leading learning and teaching, school administration, management and organisation.
* Assisting the Principal in leading School Development Planning, School Evaluation Self-Evaluations and Staff Development (INSET).
* Curriculum Co-ordination including overseeing the development and delivery of the curriculum across the Key Stages.
* Assisting the Principal in co-ordinating curriculum development, including planning, benchmarking, target setting, PRSD, monitoring the quality of provision within the school.
* Assessment coordinator for the school.
* Assisting the Principal in the promotion of positive behaviour and assertive discipline.
* SENCo (release time will be given for this role).
* Act as line manager for classroom assistants.
* Assisting the Principal with financial administration including budget planning and projections, allocations and monitoring spend and reconciliations.
* Responsibility for timetables and rotas.
* Maintaining, developing and promoting formal and informal links with parents including membership of the school PTFA committee.
* Assist the Principal in organising major school events.
* Responsibility for extra-curricular activities.
* Assisting with lunch time cover.
* Undertaking such other duties as the Principal may require.
This job description may be amended at any time after discussion with the Principal.
A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate relevant experience, knowledge and skills associated with the following key areas:
Shaping the Future
* Keep abreast of and anticipate educational trends;
* Think strategically to build and communicate a shared coherent vision;
* Create an ethos and provide direction, which promotes a culture of high expectation, successful learning and achievement;
* Inspire, challenge, motivate and empower others to carry the vision and ethos forward;
* Model the values and ethos of the school.
Leading and Managing Staff
* Provide high quality leadership to secure improvement;
* Collaborate and network with others within and beyond the school;
* Foster a culture of shared/ distributed leadership;
* Develop, empower and sustain individuals and teams;
* Support the development of an open, fair, equitable culture and manage conflict effectively;
* Support and challenge performance in order to raise standards;
* Work with others to lead professional development for all staff within the context of the school’s development plan in order to support effective teaching and learning.
Leading Learning and Teaching
* Cultivate enthusiasm for and commitment to the learning process.
* Lead and manage the development of an effective learning and teaching culture.
* Lead and manage the self-evaluation process; work with staff and others to analyse a range of data, interpret outcomes and plan for improvement.
* Ensure effective implementation of the NI Curriculum, share good practice and work with others to challenge and address pupil under-achievement.
Developing the School in the Community
* Lead and manage the development and promotion of a positive image of the school within the local community and beyond;
* Develop and maintain strong and effective relationships with parents and the local and wider community;
* Ensure effective channels of communication are in place between the school and the local and wider community;
* Listen to, reflect and act on community feedback;
* Recognise and lead others to ensure that strategic planning takes account of the richness and diversity of the school’s communities and community feedback;
* Work closely with other relevant statutory and voluntary agencies to enhance the education of all pupils.
Managing the Organisation
* Prioritise, plan and organise themselves and others;
* Think creatively to anticipate and solve problems;
* Make sound decisions based on a range of informed judgments;
* Establish and maintain appropriate structures and systems;
* Lead and manage the development and implementation of the School Development Plan;
* Delegate tasks and monitor their implementation;
* Manage resources efficiently and effectively: human, physical and financial.
Ensuring Accountability
* Create and develop a culture in which all Governors and staff recognise that they are accountable for the success of the school;
* Combine the outcomes of regular self-evaluation, ETI inspection evidence and other external evaluations in order to develop the school;
* Lead and manage the process of monitoring and evaluating effectively school outcomes, policies and procedures;
* Work with the leadership team and others to recognise and disseminate effective practice and challenge and address unacceptable performance;
* Work closely with and provide effective reports to Governors on the school’s progress and development.
Conditions of Service:
The conditions of service for this post will be in accordance with the Regulations of the Department of Education for Northern Ireland.
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