Assistant Principal

Colne Primet Academy, Colne, Lancashire, BB8 8JF

50 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025, or sooner subject to notice periods

• Closing date

  2 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L10-14

What skills and experience we're looking for

The precise portfolio of responsibilities in this role will be tailored to suit your own experience and expertise, but the core of this role is ensuring that students achieve the best educational results that they can get.

The successful candidate for this role will lead on and implement strategies to support raising student achievement across the academy and ensure excellent outcomes in line with ambitious targets. In particular, the role will make effective use of summative assessment data to ensure that the correct support and challenge is place for all students succeed and have the highest aspirations. Leading on the achievement of all students, this role will have particular focus on the outcomes for students with SEND and those eligible for Pupil Premium. In this key role, you will ensure our students are Proud to be Primet, demonstrating Progress and being Motivated to achieve. This role will also work with Curriculum Leaders, including line management of some curriculum areas, to support Middle Leaders in ensuring our Primet Pedagogy and appropriate interventions are used effectively to enable all students to achieve well.

What the school offers its staff

Now is a really exciting time to be joining Colne Primet Academy as we go through aperiod of rapid expansion, both in terms of staff and student numbers and with extensivenew building and refurbishment work due recently completed.

We currently have 875 students on roll from a diverse range of backgrounds, and thestudents numbers continue to grow up to our full capacity of 1050 over the next fewyears. Throughout the school, we have students who speak 23 different languages.Working with such a diverse community brings lots of opportunities for students to learnmore about each other and themselves.

By joining the Primet family you will become part of a supportive and ambitious team.

The core drive of being part of the Primet staff team is about wanting the best for ourstudents, and to help them overcome any barriers to their success. Our aim here atColne Primet Academy is to give each and every child the very best educational start inlife. At all times, we guide, support and inspire.

We collaborate with our colleagues at West Craven High School as well as the threeprimary academies in our Trust family and have the support of the Pendle Education

Trust core team for functions such as Finance, Facilities, Human Resources, Health andSafety, IT, Marketing and Governance.

Flexible working opportunities

Full-time, but part-time applications are welcome

Commitment to safeguarding

https://pendleeducationtrust.co.uk/safeguarding-and-child-protection/587.html

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

CPA Assistant Principal (1).pdf - 1.83 MB (opens in new tab)

About Colne Primet Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 864 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Colne Primet Academy website
• Email address: hr@pendleeducationtrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 01282863970
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/colne-primet-academy

Colne Primet Academy became part of the Pendle Education Trust family in 2013 and has experienced transformational change across all areas since then. Former Principal Lynne Blomley has now moved into an Executive Principal for Secondary Education role with the Trust, and the Academy is led by Julia Pilkington.

The school was named Secondary School of the Year at the 2021 East Lancashire Education Awards.

Arranging a visit to Colne Primet Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@pendleeducationtrust.co.uk.

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