Assistant Principal

**POST**:Assistant Principal - Pastoral, Wellbeing and Designated Safeguarding Lead at** Safa Community School, Dubai**:
**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Developing, maintaining and regularly reviewing effective behaviour systems to ensure outstanding learning behaviours across all parts of the school.
- To oversee the provisions associated with the wellbeing matters, specifically monitoring the Komodo, the online wellbeing platform for students, as well as TES Pulse for staff.
- To oversee and lead the wellbeing curriculum team to ensure it has a positive impact on student outcomes.
- To line manage the school counseling team, as well as systems and procedures associated with the counseling team.
- To support and promote the unique culture within the school.
- To oversee attendance systems/procedures, coordinating leave approvals, ensuring students have outstanding attendance.
- To support and oversee elements of health and safety, specifically online safety provisions.
- To monitor and implement robust risk assessments to ensure health and safety provisions take place for educational trips.
- To support and coordinate with relevant departments regarding international trips.
- To coordinate a shared approach, working closely with the relevant Assistant Heads.
- Ensuring systems for child safeguarding and child protection are robust and improved.
- Accountability for the execution of the wellbeing strategy and initiatives.
- Delivering appropriate training for staff to ensure that they can effectively implement behaviour and safeguarding systems to ensure consistency.
- Monitoring and evaluating the quality of students' personal and social development and their protection, care, guidance and support.
- Ensuring appropriate systems and structures are in place to hold staff to account.
- Ensuring policies and procedures related to pastoral care, safeguarding and child protection are formalised and implemented.
- Supporting the development of a culture in the school which is stakeholder focused and aims to improve levels of engagement and satisfaction for students, parents, staff and community stakeholders.
- To play a major role in formulating the aims, objectives and shared vision of the school.
- To lead the development and maintenance of a high quality positive learning environment.
- To ensure the entitlement of all students to have equal access to and participation in all aspects of the curriculum.
- To challenge under-performance at all levels throughout all departments
- To establish, and maintain, the highest possible standards of behaviour, learning and attainment
- To lead and manage staff in an appropriate manner
- To maintain high morale amongst staff and set an example of professional standards and leadership
- To contribute to the recruitment, training, deployment and professional development of staff.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
To be considered for this role, you should have:

- Experience of working with data management system.
- The ability to work constructively as part of a team understanding roles and responsibilities, including own.
- The ability to build and form good relationships with young people, colleagues and other professionals.
- Commitment to the highest standards of child protection.
- The ability to work in a fast paced, high pressure environment, without distractions.
- Full training for safeguarding in schools.
- Working knowledge of Data Protection.
- Knowledge of, and ability to utilise, ICT to access and retrieve information. Particularly Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Suite.
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills.
- The ability to communicate effectively with students, staff, parents and other related professionals both verbally and in writing.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to work with different agencies to improve student outcomes.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and adapt to and drive change.
- QTS (or equivalent) and a good undergraduate degree
- Extensive teaching experience and outstanding teaching practice
- Successful management experience as Head of Department or member of the SLT
- Experience of writing department SEF
- Experience of lesson observations and giving feedback
- Experience of improvement planning
- Experience of implementing a range of strategies to raise student achievement, with evidence of success
- Contribution to impact on the quality of learning & teaching and curriculum
- Experience of developing and sustaining positive relationships with students, parents, staff and the Governing Body to build consensus support and capacity
- Proven track record of managing and implementing change in relation to teaching practices and standards
- A track record of success in leadership and management

This role would be suitable for somebody with experience of pastoral systems in a large school looking to take the next step to senior leadership or a senior pastoral leader in a small school looking to extend their