Grace College are looking to recruit an Assistant Vice Principal: Behaviour and Standards who will join our senior management team.  The senior a mangaement team comprises of two Vice Principals who focus on Student Achievement and Student Experience. Assistant Vice Principals support them to lead the strategic and operational development of each function. The Senior Management Tea also comprises of a full time SENCO and non-teaching full time DSL. 

The successful candidate will be responsible to the Vice Principal (Student Experience) for:

• 1. Ensuring the climate in college is safe, welcoming and characterised by high expectations and standards for all students through the leadership and management of relentless routines, and social time procedures with a particular emphasis on:

  •Ensuring that all staff uphold high expectations of uniform and that students wear uniform smartly and with pride, ensuring students and families are supported to meet these expectations when this is required.
  •Organising and leading duties at the start and end of the day, ensuring students arrive and leave the site safely, calmly, and with a strong sense of welcome and belonging, supported by consistently visible and positive staff presence.
  •Implementing and upholding consistent routines during lesson transitions and at the start of the day, managing corridors to support punctuality, address lateness appropriately, and maintain a climate of high expectations and mutual respect.
  •Leading and overseeing social time procedures to ensure they are consistently followed and that student conduct is calm, safe and respectful. Leading a consistent approach to addressing instances of poor behaviour effectively, reinforcing expectations and supporting positive change.

  2. Ensuring that all students consistently show respect for all and exercise self-discipline including before and after the college day with a particular emphasis on:

  •Working with other senior leaders to ensure that staff consistently celebrate and recognise when students meet high expectations so that there is a culture of relentlessly positivity, creating a climate where self control is the norm.
  •Working with teachers and heads of department to ensure that teaching staff have the skills they need to be the leader of learning for every child and use their skills to create an excellent climate for learning.
  •Overseeing the student intervention rooms so what when these spaces are used to address student behaviour or welfare needs the climate is characterised by high expectations and that intervention, reflection and restoration are used to prevent further behaviour incidents occurring and promote personal character growth.
  •Leading the detention systems to ensure high attendance, and actively promoting positive behavioural change, so that students are motivated to reflect on their actions and make amends, contributing to their long-term character development.

  3. Reducing suspension and exclusion through the provision of exemplary personalised intervention and support for behaviour, with a particular emphasis on:

  •Analysing behaviour data each day to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to address poor behaviour, strategically deploying behaviour and welfare support officers to work with students when needed.

  •Using data to ensure that when student behaviour is not exemplary over time, that a staged response addressing welfare and behaviour needs, is used to address this and includes personalised intervention through line management of behaviour and welfare support officers. Reporting regularly to the senior leadership team on behaviour data, improvements and actions required to address this.

  •Building strong relationships with parents and carers when students regularly demonstrate behaviour that is not exemplary and work with them to create intervention plans, reporting to the senior leadership team on the efficacy and impact of these strategies.

  4. 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
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• 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 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.