Vice Principal

Working With Us

At Harris Girls’ Academy Bromley, we pride ourselves on being in the top 1% of schools in the country, fostering a culture of high expectations for students and staff. We are incredibly ambitious for all and strive to improve daily through a strong culture of feedback, underpinned by high levels of support and challenge.

Our students are respectful and intelligent individuals, with brilliant senses of humour. We offer them a supportive environment that promotes their character building and understanding of the wider world. We are proud to be an all-girls school that breaks down the barriers to equality.

At the forefront of all our decisions is finding the balance between delivering exceptional outcomes for students and the workload of our staff. Every member of staff is provided with the opportunity to contribute to decision making, and is championed as an individual as well as a part of our school community. We are committed to developing our staff and believe that ambition is something to be celebrated. We invest time and resources to ensure that our staff continuously develop and progress through external training and qualifications, and training programmes at the academy.

Main Areas of Responsibility

We are happy to negotiate individual responsibilities with you, but these could involve:

• Overseeing the strategic management of data, assessment and target setting (including reporting achievement data to governors and external bodies as required), working with the Principal to set challenging and aspirational whole academy targets.
• Leading on teaching, learning and assessment across the academy, providing the necessary Professional Learning opportunities to ensure the highest of standards are maintained in the classroom and in student outcomes.
• Leading on effective behaviour and inclusion, ensuring that the needs of all students are met within and beyond the classroom.
• Responsible for the success and leadership of at least two faculties.

As a member of the Academy Leadership Group, you will need to meet these general expectations:

• To collaborate to build and realise the shared vision of excellence and high standards
• To play a major role in determining strategy
• To contribute actively towards the formulation and implementation of all academy policies and procedures
• To agree challenging subject targets, and ensure rigorous monitoring, evaluation and review of progress towards these
• To ensure high quality teaching and learning in line managed faculties
• To manage delegated budgets effectively
• To attend academy leadership meetings
• To engage in the process of appointing new staff
• To participate in duties lunch/break/before and after school
• To contribute to assemblies
• To share in the management of student disciplinary incidents
• To actively participate in the monitoring, evaluation and review of teaching and learning in line managed faculties

As an ideal candidate, you:

• Have proven successful school leadership
• Have worked with diverse groups and are a strong advocate for parent and community involvement
• Have embraced challenges and seek opportunities to develop as an educational leader
• Have promoted innovative, transformative practices to support student engagement and learning
• Have modelled a positive inquiry-based approach to problem solving
• Have inspired and supported students and staff to reach their full potential
• Have fostered an environment of instructional excellence
• Have built relationships which support student success in a safe and caring school

What We are Looking For

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• QTS and a good undergraduate degree (or equivalent)
• Minimum of three years' experience at senior leadership level, at least once as a deputy/ Vice Principal
• Experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff
• Proven success in raising achievement as a subject leader across at least two key stages
• Evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance
• Successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review
• Good level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement
• Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
• Experience of presenting to a wide audience
• Ideas of how Language, Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
• Experience of embedding innovative strategies for improving teaching and learning in a whole school situation
• Experience of managing and implementing change successfully at whole school level
• Experience of using coaching as a model for ensuring on going professional development particularly with subject leaders

Applying for this Position

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.