Job Title: Principal
Salary – L15 -19 £73,104 - £80,654
Location: West Sussex
Start Date; January 2025 or earlier if available.
Masterclass Education are delighted to be working with an incredible school in the West Sussex area who are looking for a Principal to lead the school from Jan 2025 or sooner!
The setting is a non-maintained special school based in its our own idyllic grounds. The school offers extensive specialist facilities with the aim to provide an exceptional learning environment, helping children and young people fulfil their potential. Facilities include woodland and outdoor classroom space, high specification sensory room and swimming pool.
The school believes everyone should have the opportunity to live a healthy, active, and fulfilling life, regardless of their background or disability. The aim of their services is to provide a safe and stimulating environment that enables children and young people to flourish and grow.
The provision caters for students aged 3—19 years with neurological motor impairment such as Cerebral Palsy and associated medical and sensory needs. Following the Conductive Education approach, the setting focuses on the holistic development of everyone, including their physical and communication skills.
Main Duties:
As Principal, there is an expectation of enabling strategic leadership, operational oversight and providing direct support and guidance to the different branches of the educational offer. All of these have seen substantial growth in recent times, and we need the Principal to have experience in multi curriculum management and provide effective dynamic support for a range of cohorts within one site.
Job Scope:
To provide facilitative and inclusive management establishing and maintaining productive, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
* To promote a culture of high standards and continuous improvement that values and empowers staff and encourages the staff team to maximise their potential through continuous learning whilst challenging under performance.
* Ensure the wellbeing and safety of staff.
* To work seamlessly across departments or team boundaries in a collaborative and constructive manner to achieve the Group aims and KPI’s.
* To always work within the Group policies and procedures.
* To ensure all statutory requirements as defined by the DfE and other external bodies are met.
* To foster a culture of continuous improvement and achieve the highest inspection ratings.
* To develop and lead the site in this transition, where the college’s future will be set for years to come.
Please do contact Samantha in our South Coast office for further information.
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