Vacancies

Harris Academy Purley is an oversubscribed 11-19 co-educational Academy with currently 1000 students on roll, situated on the Croydon/Surrey border with excellent transport to central London, Surry and the south coast. Open since September 2009, we were judged Outstanding. The Academy moved into a state-of-the-art new building in September 2012. 

We are a happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat on another with care and respect. The Academy combines traditional values of discipline and good-manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. The Academy’s leadership team and staff share an expectation that each and every student who joins Harris Academy Purley achieves his or her “personal best”. With an emphasis on Enterprise, the Academy strives each and every day to create a culture and ethos which promotes curiosity, initiative and leadership in all our young people.

We are currently seeking a Head of Sixth Form to lead and manage Post 16 education, including liaising with other Post 16 Centres within the Federation and to lead and develop Sixth Form provision. This is one of six Assistant Principals in the Senior Leadership structure.  

You will be a successful leader with a strong track record of school improvement either at Subject Leader or Assistant Principal level, with experience of Sixth Form curriculum. You will have significant experience in improving results and you will be a strong communicator with the ability to manage change and motivate staff and students. You will have the potential to progress to Vice-Principalship within the Harris Federation or elsewhere. 

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious professional to join our team of committed staff who ‘share a common sense of purpose and high expectations of what students can achieve‘ (Ofsted).  Exceptional Professional Development opportunities, whatever your level of development and ambitions, exist within the Academy itself and as part of the very successful Harris Federation.

Harris Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

For information about Harris Academy Purley or the Harris Federation, please visit www.harrispurley.org.uk or www.harrisfederation.org.uk

 

 

FOR AN INFORMAL (AND CONFIDENTIAL) DISCUSSION, please contact Mr Bartholomew Cannon, Principal, Harris Academy Purley on  b.cannon@harrispurley.org.uk

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www.harriscareers.org.uk