The Vice Principal’s bring a specialist skill set enabling them to be deployed in a range of capacitates to support academies. Each Vice Principal is based in a specific academy, providing support to the Head of School, but they can also be deployed on a short or medium term for a particular project or purpose to support the wider Federation.
In the past this has included:
- leading and managing an academy during a maternity leave;
- being seconded each week to a school being supported by our Executive Principal in order to provide additional leadership capacity;
- providing HR support through long-term sickness management, capability procedures and management restructures;
- leading the successful application for a free school; supporting a nursery’s manager to move the provision to Good following a poor Ofsted report;
These deployments provide the senior managers with additional experiences that benefit their own professional development whilst contributing to the wider success and growth of the Federation.