HABERDASHERS’ ASKE’S FEDERATION
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title:
Reporting to:
Vice Principal
Principal of Hatcham College
PURPOSE
The Vice Principal: Teaching role is focussed upon the quality of teaching both within his or
her home Academy and across the Federation as a whole. In order for the children and
young people of the Federation to make the necessary progress to reach the levels of
attainment they need to reach, the quality of teaching judged via a range of evidence
including the judgement of all lessons must be at least good and the overall judgement for
teaching must be outstanding. Achieving this is the core purpose of this role.
The key accountabilities of the post are:
Strategic Development
 To support the Principal in developing and communicating a clear strategic vision to
develop the college successfully and to lead to improvement;
 To take responsibility for those elements of the school’s self-evaluation and
improvement plan that pertain to the brief for this role;
 To share in identifying whole school aims and objectives which have coherence and
relevance to the needs of students and to the aims and objectives of the School;
 To work with colleagues to ensure the creation and implementation of the School
Improvement Plan;
 To share in the effective and efficient management of the school on a daily basis and to
maintain a high profile presence for staff and students in the college and promote its
ethos;
 To be a model of high professional standards in all aspects of college life and to lead by
example;
 Contribute to the preparation of all academy documentation, including the college
handbook, Governors’ reports, and similar including review of the staff and student
handbooks annually;
 To deputise for the Principal as required.
Teaching and learning
 To establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching in
every subject to meet and support the aims of the school;
 To monitor the quality of teaching; based on evidence, self-evaluation and development,
ensuring a consistent and continuous school wide focus on achievement;
 To explore devise and implement an effective CPD and professional learning strategy to
improve the overall quality of teaching;
 To Ensure that new teachers have the induction and development they need to rapidly
become effective members of the teaching workforce of the Federation;
 To ensure that support is provided for individual teachers where this is needed to ensure
their lessons are consistently good;
 To use data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every child’s learning and to focus
teaching;
 To demonstrate and articulate consistently high expectations of pedagogy and
classroom practise to provide challenge and improvement.
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To liaise and collaborate with the Vice Principal: Teaching of the Federation’s other
academies to ensure consistency and best practice across the Federation;
Curriculum Development
 To share in monitoring, reviewing and developing the curriculum offer to ensure that the
Academy delivers an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost-effective
curriculum that complements the college’s strategic objectives;
 To keep up to date with national developments in all subject areas and in teaching
practice and methodology;
 To actively monitor and respond to curriculum development and initiatives at national,
regional and local levels.
Quality Assurance
 To line manage areas designated by the Principal and to maintain an overview of the line
management of all curriculum areas to ensure consistently high quality curriculum
leadership across the College and Federation;
 To implement school monitoring procedures and to ensure adherence to those within
identified curriculum areas;
 To take the lead in the process of the setting of targets within identified curriculum
areas and to be the driving force behind working towards their achievement;
 To establish common standards of practice across the school and develop the
effectiveness of teaching and learning styles;
 To be able to use a range of evidence/data to support, monitor, evaluate and improve
performance;
 To contribute to the Federation quality assurance teams;
 Produce reports as required within the School self-evaluation systems.
Accountability
 Attend and report to Governors’ meetings as required by the Principal and CEO;
 To take responsibility for own professional development in discussion with the Principal;
 Ensure that parents and students are well informed about student attainment and
progress and that a high quality reporting system is in place;
 Encourage and develop good relations between the Academy and the local community.
Staff
 Work collaboratively with the other academies within the Haberdashers’ Federation
 To Line manage the Assistant Principals for responsible for teaching, data and academic
progress and to ensure that all the Middle Leaders within the academy and across the
Federation are of high quality and are able to provide the leadership and management
necessary to meet subject and overall Academy targets for attainment and progress;
 To deliver, in conjunction with the Principal, an effective Performance Management
framework;
 To ensure that Staff Development and CPD is rigorous and outcome focussed leading to
an increasingly high quality workforce;
 To be responsible for the delivery of a rigorous, personalised programme for Initial
Teacher Training, NQT and new staff induction to ensure that new entrants rapidly
understand the expectations of the Academy and Federation.
All staff
 To ensure Equality of Opportunity in all areas of the college;
 To promote the college’s ethos;
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To promote the college’s commitment to continued professional development of all
staff;
To undertake any duties as may reasonably be required by the Principal.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Category
Criteria
Qualifications
Degree
Teaching qualification
A Higher qualification in education and/or management would be an
advantage
Experience
Experience in more than one school
Significant experience at senior level
Proven track record of raising educational standards
Curriculum and/or pastoral experience at senior management level
Shaping the Future
An understanding of the benefits of working within a Federation and
clear and demonstrable desire to work collaboratively
A proven record of implementing change
Experience of successfully leading change and inspiring others
Proven track record of change management
Leading Teaching &
Leaching
Ability to lead and inspire high quality teaching and learning
Ability to inspire, demonstrate and support the highest of
expectations for all
Capacity to recognise and build on the Experience of monitoring and
evaluation practices
Developing Self and
Working with
Others
Skill to set appropriate and challenging targets
Capability to make and take decisions and delegate appropriately
Commitment to the encouragement, empowerment and training of
staff
Commitment to own self development Experience of involvement in
the provision of whole school training in a school
Evidence of leading on a whole school initiative, demonstrating a
strategic approach.
Managing the
Organisation
Capacity to build on and manage high performance teams
Ability to use strong and effective management systems
underpinned by clear communication
Ability to produce and implement appropriate improvement plans
and policies
Commitment to the benefits of collaborative working within a hard
Federation
Knowledge of financial management
Securing
Accountability
Ability to delegate responsibility with accountability
Capacity to sustain the ongoing improvement of results
Strengthening
Community
Ability to continue to develop the school’s response to its changing
community
Commitment to promoting community links and cohesion
Ability to recognise and build on the school’s excellent multi-agency
links
Personal Qualities
& Attributes
Passionate about education
An effective communicator
Interpersonal awareness and concern for impact
Resilient and energetic
Firm and fair
Lead by example with high professional standards
Dynamic and motivational
A sense of proportion
Safeguarding
Children
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
and young people