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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    12 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    7 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

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Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time, full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Leadership L6 - L10

Assistant Principal - Raising Standards, Curriculum Data and Assessment job summary

The Great Schools Trust are seeking a passionate Assistant Principal with a proven track record for raising standards, curriculum design, alongside data and assessment analysis to positively improve results.

The successful candidate with use their experience and expertise to drive forward standards at King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes, working across all departments. This is a fantastic opportunity for an excellent and experienced leader and classroom practitioner who thrives on student success, is willing to go the extra mile, and wants to be part of a supportive, ambitious team. Experience as an SLE or across mathematics is welcome.

King’s Hawthornes is part of the Great Schools Trust, ranked No. 2 nationally for most improved multi-academy trust in 2025. Our schools don’t just deliver academic excellence – they transform lives. We are relentless in our focus on people and wellbeing, ensuring that staff are supported, developed and valued. With dedicated weekly CPD time, access to leading leadership programmes and a trust-wide commitment to work-life balance, this is a place where both students and teachers thrive.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the curriculum design and data review at Hawthornes, working with a dynamic team dedicated to academic excellence and character development. Our ASPIRE Values – Achievement, Aspiration, Self-awareness, Professionalism, Integrity, Respect, and Endeavour – underpin everything we do.

Why Join Us?

At King’s Hawthornes, we are proud of our culture. According to our latest anonymous Edurio Staff Survey. Our staff don’t just work here—they believe in what we do. One colleague praised the “amazing, supportive staff who truly act with integrity and have the best interests of the school at heart.” From the camaraderie of departments to the “open door, kind culture”, the strength of our team is consistently highlighted. Staff appreciate being part of a trust that is “at the cutting edge of research,” and speak highly of the leadership: “I can go to my line manager with any problems, and she always offers immediate advice.”

  • Reduce workload with our AI-powered assessment platform, freeing up time for impactful teaching
  • Comprehensive CPD with weekly professional development and leadership link meetings
  • Career growth opportunities within a thriving multi-academy trust
  • Excellent benefits, including a competitive salary, pension scheme, BUPA Employee Assistance Programme, and flexible working options

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

If you would like to visit our wonderful academy, please contact Hayley Fenlon at the details below.

Safeguarding Commitment

King’s Leadership Academy Hawthornes is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Great Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check. Please note you must have the right to work in the UK.

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About King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
636 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
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King’s Hawthornes is situated in Bootle, several miles from Liverpool city centre. The school is part of The Great Schools Trust, an expanding multi-academy trust based in the North West.

King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes is a growing school of committed, friendly staff and a cohort of students who are polite, enthusiastic and keen to learn right across the curriculum. We are a school centred in our Aspire Values – Achievement, Aspiration, Self-awareness, Professionalism, Integrity, Respect and Endeavour. It is these values that drive our behaviours and relationships, a lingua franca that helps to bind our community together. An inspector captured the mission of the school when he observed that we were ‘building better people,’ something we are proud of.

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