We are looking to appoint two senior leaders who will join our student experience  team. The senior management team comprises of two Vice Principals who focus upon Student Achievement or Student Experience. Assistant Vice Principals support them to lead the strategic and operational development  of each function. The Senior Management Team also comprises of a full time SENCO and a nonteaching full time DSL. Along with the AVP: Student Development the successful candidates will deliver the Student Experience strategy of ESF at Grace College, which focuses on ensuring all pupils can attend well, behave well and feel that they belong to Team Grace and ESF by removing any barriers which may prevent this. 

Responsible to the Vice Principal: Student Support and Development for:

Ensuring the climate in college is safe, welcoming and focused upon learning with a particular emphasis on:

• ensuring that all students consistently show respect for all and exercise self-discipline including before and after the college day through the leadership of relentless routines including the welcome and departure phase, lesson changeover and engaging social time procedures and activities; 
• working directly with other senior leader to ensure that absence or lack of engagement is identified early and for this barriers are addressed effectively so that all students can achieve a personal best.
• engage in line management of an academic department ensuring that the quality of teaching is exemplary and monitoring student experience in this area.  

Leading and  championing  the Team Grace culture so that the student experience fosters a sense of pride and belonging to our community meaning students attend well and behave well:

• regularly monitoring and analysing student experience data such as behaviour and attendance to identify emerging barriers ensuring that timely intervention, support and appropriate challenge improves behaviour and attendance data over time. 
• overseeing and directing student experience support staff so that intervention to address barriers to attendance and behaviour are consistently highly effective. 
• Overseeing the student praise and recognition systems and processes to ensure a culture of relentlessly positivity.

Supporting the Principal to lead the strategic aims and objectives of the trust and school ensuring that: 

• policies and procedures reflect the objectives and values of the organisation, ensuring the are implemented consistently and effectively; 
• managing resources and monitoring progress towards achieving objectives taking swift action to address areas for improvement; 
• If the Principal or Vice Principals are absent or unavailable carry out the duties and responsibilities  as requested. Fulfil any other duties reasonable required by the Principal including an appropriate amount of classroom teaching. 

Further information is available in the job description and person specification.  

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
• Daily lunch allowance
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• 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 to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.  Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.