Ernulf Academy are building a team of exceptional and highly skilled leaders, committed to driving excellence and improvement in our school. Last year, we improved results by over 10% in multiple metrics, and we're on a mission to do it again this year! This career-defining role could be for you if:
You have a clear understanding of how impeccable behaviour, disruption-free classrooms, and effective pastoral systems help to drive great results. You possess a deep passion for pastoral work, ensuring every child feels safe, supported, and included. You can demonstrate a proven track record of delivering impact.
As the Vice Principal: Behaviour and Safeguarding, you will work side-by-side with the Principal to shape the strategic direction of the school. You will raise standards across the board, ensuring excellence in every classroom. You will play a visible role in all areas of school improvement to drive academic outcomes and foster a scholarly culture, and be respected by staff as someone who upholds the highest of standards and works hard.
This role is suitable for an experienced Vice Principal with a track record or a talented and hungry Assistant Principal.
Key Responsibilities:
* Be a big presence. Boss the school and the corridors. Have a mindset of constant and continual improvement. Dismantle and rebuild systems and processes until they work brilliantly.
* Lead constant and continual improvement in all pastoral elements of the school directly and indirectly through line management. This includes: behaviour inside and outside of the classroom, safeguarding, attendance, and internal AP.
* Continue to drive the effective implementation of a Warm/Strict approach. Understand the importance of routines, both inside and outside the classroom, to secure excellent conduct in a calm, ordered, and safe environment.
* Secure excellent conduct in classrooms, ensuring children are focussed and learning at all times - every minute matters!
* Ensure children transition calmly and safely between lessons and at social times.
* Spearhead and continue to develop a culture of kindness and politeness. Inject the school with a sense of joy and belonging!
* Drive continual improvements in pastoral middle leadership, as the engine room of the school.
* Have a laser focus on data that is generated through safeguarding and pastoral systems and respond immediately to support children and stop problems before they arise!
* Use evidence to precisely monitor, diagnose, and evaluate the school. Use this to drive improvement.
* Model and uphold the highest of standards. Ensure others are accountable for maintaining culture, systems, routines, and standards. Robustly tackle underperformance wherever it is identified.
* Line-manage senior leaders and other key areas. Develop expertise within the team, especially with regards to skilful and precise enactment of pastoral systems.
* Be a big voice in driving strategic improvements. Develop plans. Implement priorities quickly.
* Be an excellent practitioner - an example to which others aspire.
About Ernulf Academy:
This is a fantastic time to join TEAM ERNULF on our turnaround journey. We are on a RAPID MISSION to turn our school into one of the BEST in the country! When the current leadership took over, in September 2024, Ernulf had NEVER received an Ofsted 'Good' in ANY category. In January 2025, after just one term, Ofsted rated us 'Good' in ALL categories. Then, in the summer exams we improved our 4+ English and Maths from 52% to 63%! If our rapid improvement and ambition EXCITE you, then join us to DISRUPT DISADVANTAGE by transforming the education of our pupils.
We are within an hour's commute of North London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby. We believe in keeping things simple. Our mantra is: WORK HARD, BE KIND. We don't just want children to attain incredible academic outcomes; we also want to help them become great people. WORK HARD Team Ernulf don't believe in fads. We know the biggest factor in a child's achievement is how hard they work. That is why we have sky high expectations.
We have simple rules, centralised detentions, and we back our teachers - so that our classrooms are disruption-free. We do this to support our children who want to work hard and do well. A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on 'powerful knowledge', underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching, following evidence-based research by Rosenshine. Our pedagogy is influenced by Teach Like A Champion (TLAC). Stimulating lessons are delivered by teachers, who we back as the expert in the room.
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