Vice Principal: Community Ethos and Personal Development

Grace College are looking to recruit a Vice Principal: Community Ethos and Personal Development to join our Senior Management Team. We have high expectations for our students as they grow and develop and all our staff provide important role models to them in terms of positive attitude, work ethic and diligence. The successful candidate will be responsible to the Principal for: 1. Ensuring the provision of highly effective personal development curriculum that deepens student’s knowledge over time across all areas of the curriculum including careers, with a particular emphasis on: Supporting leaders and staff to deliver an exceptional personal development curriculum including the provision of careers education, ensuring we have ambitious provision of the Gatsby Benchmarks and meet the Baker Clause. Ensuring that as part of the curriculum and wider offer the teaching of SMSC, RSE, fundamental British Values and protected characteristics prepare students consistently well for adult life and enables students to make wise and positive choices now, particularly in relation to relationships with each other and engagement online and that the personal development curriculum is developed and reviewed considering contextual safeguarding concerns. Ensure that through the provision of appropriate careers advice and guidance all students have a post 16 destination and that students have ambitious aspirations for their future, including attending the Associated Sixth Form. 2. Ensuring that all students have an entitlement to a broad, inclusive and meaningful wider offer of personal development opportunities outside of the curriculum, with a particular emphasis on: Leading on the development and quality assurance of the co-curricular programme so that there are a wide range of opportunities available to students during the school day, after school and during school holidays. Leading on the development of the Grace College entitlement ensuring that barriers to accessing co-curricular do not limit the engagement of students in a diverse range of opportunities, this will include leading along with other colleagues on events such as sports day and presentation evening. Ensuring that Grace College is an asset to the local community by engaging with community partners and organisations to identify how they can contribute to the wider development of our students and ensuring that Grace College impacts the local community positively in a range of ways. As a result, Grace College will have a presence and engagement in the community that is purposeful and impactful. 3. Support the delivery and strategic direction of the school’s ethos, ensuring that students have deep and engaging opportunities to explore worldview and faith, through the provision of the daily act of worship and celebrations throughout the year, with a particular emphasis on: Oversight of the acts and programmes of collective worship including our daily broadcast Good Morning Grace