Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
Southampton
Salary:
Teachers scale 14 (£78,982 FTE)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
TBC
Apply by:
19 September 2025
Job overview
Starting salary - Teachers scale 14 (£78,982 FTE)
Full-time, 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter
Richard Taunton Sixth Form College is seeking an inspirational and highly effective leader to drive improvements across our curriculum and student outcomes. This role is key to ensuring that we achieve our strategic aim of delivering high quality education to our local community.
At the heart of our aspirations to grow and develop our 16-19 provision is an ambitious curriculum plan focused on the development of an inclusive curriculum offer, which includes full-time provision from Level 3 to Level 1, designed to meet the broad educational needs of the communities we serve.
The role of Deputy Principal is fundamental to enable the college to implement our strategic and curriculum plans and ensure excellent outcomes for our diverse student community. We are seeking an exceptional individual, with a proven track record of high student achievement and quality improvement to lead our curriculum and provide highly effective management of staffing, resources and education services to enable us to achieve the aspirations set in our Quality of Education principles.
The Trust Quality of Education Principles outline our intent and implementation to achieve the highest standards of education, ensuring that every learner has access to an engaging, inclusive, and effective learning environment.
This role will hold responsibility for shaping and developing curriculum in accordance with local labour market need and emerging opportunities. The future Deputy Principal will be someone with a positive and forward-looking ethos, who understands the importance of a growth culture and high professional standards, whilst always promoting Trust values.
The Deputy Principal will join our senior team and will work collaboratively with colleagues to lead and develop a high-quality and agile curriculum that meets local need. The successful appointee will share our desire for Richard Taunton to be an outstanding college and will be active in college life. Some cross site working will be required.
The Lighthouse Learning Trust is committed to equality, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all staff. We are an equal opportunities employer that recruits on merit and we welcome applications from all members of the community.
Successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS application.
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About Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
Hill Lane, Southampton
Hampshire
SO15 5RL
United Kingdom
Richard Taunton's is a vibrant Sixth Form College in the West of Southampton. Our core business is to provide full time education to 16-19 year olds (currently around 1000) but we also offer part-time adult education courses and provide facilities for a wide range of other community-based activities (including the Open University) in the evenings and at weekends. The College is firmly rooted in its community and it is our vision to be the sixth form of choice for all our community, an outstanding, high achieving college which inspires and challenges young people to be the best that they can be.
We are working in close partnership with primary and secondary schools and colleges, with our local universities and with the local authority in Southampton, to raise standards and increase post-16 participation and progression. We work with our partners to make Southampton's schools and colleges irresistible to the families who live in Southampton and in the surrounding area. We also champion positive progression beyond college to Higher Education or into robust employment-related training schemes.
The College takes partnership and collaboration very seriously. We are members of the national Association of Colleges and the Sixth Form Colleges' Association. More locally, we are part of the Wessex Group of Sixth Form Colleges, and work closely with the 9 other colleges in Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth to provide the best development opportunities for staff and to enhance the experience and success of our students. We are also active members of the Solent Colleges' Innovation Partnership which links the six Sixth Form Colleges which sit in urban communities across the coastal area of the Solent.
If you are an individual with a passion for education, a commitment to lifelong learning and a desire to make a difference to young people of all abilities and backgrounds, you will thrive here. We are highly committed to the development of our staff, providing annual opportunities to access management training programmes run by the Wessex Group and an extensive range of curriculum specific networks and exam board training. We also play a very active part in the local school and college network in Southampton which links our staff with colleagues in our local institutions and provides opportunity to get involved in outreach work with schools to support successful transition to college.
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