Assistant Principal

George Eliot Academy, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV11 4QP

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  31 March 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  14 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Mathematics
• Working pattern: Full time: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Highly Competitive and Negotiable – above national rates

What skills and experience we're looking for

Our ideal candidate will:

• Have a track record of sustained delivery for outstanding attainment and raising standards.
• Have extensive experience of leading a successful team.
• Be able to analytically and expertly use data to monitor and intervene in order to improve pupils progress over time.
• Experience of having led, or significantly contributed to the success of a school through its leadership, ethos, teaching and results.

What the school offers its staff

Our offer:

• You will be working in an academy that “…. places kindness alongside ambition in the values it promotes” (Ofsted 2021)
• You will be working within an experienced, ambitious, forward thinking and highly effective team
• You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with other United Learning schools
• We will support your ongoing continuing professional development
• You will be fully supported by your colleagues within the school to ensure you have the tools to deliver success and reduce your workload

Benefits of working for United Learning:

• Westfield Health Cash Plan – claim money back on the cost of dental, optical & physio services plus much more (eligibility after 6 months’ service)
• Free lunch for staff on duty
• Car lease scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Gym membership
• Westfield Rewards – discounted shopping platform (eligibility after 6 months’ service)
• Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free tea and coffee

Flexible working opportunities

We offer flexible working, including at least one personal day per year, and offer a wide range of CPD opportunities for staff pooled from a wealth of experience and expertise in the academy and across the United Learning group

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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.

Assistant Principal JD1.pdf - 519 KB (opens in new tab)

About George Eliot Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 805 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: George Eliot Academy website
• Email address: deryn.thomas@georgeeliotacademy.org.uk
• Phone number: 02476744000
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/george-eliot-academy

George Eliot Academy is a rewarding and professionally stimulating place to work. George Eliot Academy is a mixed secondary school where pupils feel a real sense of belonging and there is a culture of mutual respect. We are passionate about our vision to develop successful pupils who are independent, well-rounded, behave well and with integrity and live happy and fulfilled lives.

Our academy is at the heart of the local community and has undergone a journey of rapid improvement in recent years, we were graded ‘Good’ in all categories under the new Ofsted framework in September 2021.

Never complacent, we are now on our next stage of the journey of excellence and our staff are the key to achieving this. We are looking for a high-quality teacher of PE with an additional subject to join our family. If you have a passion for teaching and learning and your values are aligned with our STAR values,

Arranging a visit to George Eliot Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email deryn.thomas@georgeeliotacademy.org.uk.

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