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 are 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 seeking an exceptional, experienced and enthusiastic middle leader for our Director of Learning (English) position. The successful candidate will take responsibility for a strong and successful English Department, providing vision, leadership and direction and be a member of the Academy’s middle leadership team.

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 Principal Bartholomew Cannon: b.cannon@harrispurley.org.uk  

Please download an application pack from www.harriscareers.org.uk