As an Assistant Vice Principal: Pastoral Care and Personal Development, you will take on the responsibility of leading the pastoral care function, ensuring that students experience a culture where they feel safe, welcomed, and supported in their journey. You will provide leadership to the middle pastoral leaders, ensuring that tutors are empowered to build meaningful relationships with students, address barriers to learning, and maintain effective communication with parents. Through your oversight, you will ensure that every student begins their day feeling confident, ready to learn, and proud of their place in the school community.
In this role, you will be responsible to the Vice Principal: Behaviour and Attitudes/Personal Development for the leadership of the pastoral care function, which supports students to feel welcome and a sense of belonging. This will include:
* Line management of the Heads of House who will oversee tutors in their houses to ensure that from the start of the day, students are made to feel welcome, are equipped and ready to learn and that communication with parents is effective and regular
* Oversight and quality assurance of the tutor programme to ensure that tutors know the students in their tutor groups well, address any barriers to being ready for the day quickly and provide students with opportunities to develop SMSC
* Ensuring that tutors and Heads of House regularly recognise, celebrate and reward students for their endeavours and achievements through lesson drop-ins, the merit system and timely communication with parents/carers
You will have oversight of the taught Personal Development curriculum for all year groups, including:
* Ensuring high-quality intent and implementation of each core theme of the Personal Development curriculum, including line management of the Personal Development Lead to ensure the effective planning of and deployment of resources to Personal Development lessons
* Ensuring that assessment of learning demonstrates that gaps in student knowledge are being addressed so that core knowledge is secure and built upon over time, supporting the Personal Development Lead to adapt the curriculum where necessary
* Line managing and supporting the Careers Advisor to ensure that all students, including those whose provision is offsite or have a bespoke curriculum offer, have access to high-quality careers advice and guidance at all Key Stages that go beyond the Gatsby Benchmarks
You will also be responsible for the provision of a programme of wider opportunities that serve to encourage joy and endeavour, raise aspirations, broaden perspectives, and provide opportunities for leadership, representation and service to the community, including:
* Engaging students in a vibrant and busy wider opportunities programme of visiting speakers, online events, house events, student leadership programmes and non-residential off-site visits that serve to raise aspirations and broaden students’ perspectives
* Oversight, planning and management of the termly co-curricular programme and annual residential programme supported by the Heads of House
* Oversight of community-focused events and activities that ensure students contribute to the local community positively so that there is at least one community service event each term and that Grace College students are represented at external community leadership events to promote the positive reputation of the college beyond the school gates, supported by the Heads of House
* Oversight of the Good Morning Grace and Friday Review Broadcasts so that students have access to a broad and engaging range of content that promotes SMSC development, British Values and protected characteristics, increasing student participation in these broadcasts over time, supported by the Heads of House
As an 11–19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our strong Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide an outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
* Defined benefit pension scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
* Daily lunch allowance
* Free parking
* Employee-centred and family-friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
* Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
* Cycle scheme
* Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
For further information and to apply, please click here.
Closing date: 9.00am on 14th February 2025.
Interview date: w/c 17th February 2025.
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement, which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
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