Assistant Principal
Houlton School, RUGBY, Warwickshire, CV23 1ED16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
01/01/2026 (or sooner if possible)
Closing date
9 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
23 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L11-L15
What skills and experience we're looking for
Houlton School has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Assistant Principal to join our successful Academy. You will join the Vice Principals in leading a passionate team of Pupil Experience colleagues who are committed to delivering education in engaging and inspiring ways. You will be an excellent teacher and leader who has the ability to inspire, motivate, challenge and support pupils to ensure that they make excellent progress.
We welcome applications from experienced middle or senior leaders looking for their next challenge in an exciting and innovative setting. It is very important to us at Houlton School that all of our teachers feel valued, listened to and mentored well so that they have opportunities to develop. The successful candidate will work closely with the Vice Principals, to maintain and further build on our academy’s quickly established reputation locally as an academy with the highest standards and expectations in terms of pupil behaviour and conduct.
This post is not suitable for Early Career Teachers (ECTs).
What the school offers its staff
Houlton School is a secondary free school that opened in September 2021; set within a combination of fully refurbished Grade II listed buildings as well as brand new, specialist teaching facilities, Science is housed within our state-of-the-art STEM building.
Innovation, Aspiration and Excellence are our three core pillars, which are at the heart of all we do at our recently designated ‘World Class School’ – visit the website to get a strong feel for how we support you and our pupils to be the best they can be every day as part of the Houlton family.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Transforming Lives Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff, volunteers, contractors, parents and pupils to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to careers@tlet.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Houlton School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 541 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Houlton School website
- Email address
- careers@tlet.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01788593900
Houlton School is an 11-18 Free School Academy with World Class Quality Mark status. It is part of the Transforming Lives Educational Trust, based in Rugby. It opened to its founding cohort of Year 7 pupils in September 2021 and will grow, one cohort at a time until there are pupils across ages 11-18.
We are fortunate to occupy a brand new, £39 campus-style academy, which includes the Grade II listed former Rugby Radio Station buildings, as well as three new purpose-built, specialist teaching blocks, all set within a 20 acre campus on the Eastern border of Warwickshire.
This is an exciting time to join the Houlton family. Already accredited as a 'World Class School', you could join us as one of the very first cohorts of both staff and pupils. Check out our campus here: https://youtu.be/zLjJVdqJ3eI
Arranging a visit to Houlton School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email careers@tlet.org.uk.
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