20 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    22 April 2025 at 8am

  • Date listed

    24 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

£63,815 - £70,293 (L11-15)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Assistant Vice Principal (ICT)

Start date: Required to start September 2025 Salary: L11 – L15 (£63,815 - £70,293) pay rise pending September 2025

Full time/Part time: Full time – Permanent

This is an opportunity for an excellent Assistant Vice Principal to join a beacon of excellence in girls’ education.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and a highly motivated individual eager to make a positive contribution to the aspirational vision for this thriving academy. We are looking to appoint an outstanding and dynamic Assistant Vice Principal.

He/she will be a dynamic and innovative practitioner, who is passionate about their subject and the impact it can have on a young person’s development and all-round education.

He/she will also be someone who values working as part of a team ensuring the highest possible standards of achievement and attainment.


What the school offers its staff

BHSA is an all through 3-19 years girls’ academy sponsored by the Girls’ Day School Trust, and is, and will continue to be, a highly successful centre of education where every student matters, where expectations of all members of our community are high and where personal achievement and fulfilment are valued and sought after.

BHSA promises the highest level of academic provision alongside an extensive programme of enrichment activities, and all within a friendly and supportive family environment.

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.
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About Birkenhead High School Academy

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 19
Education phase
Through
School size
1202 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 19
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01516525777

Birkenhead High School Academy is unique on Wirral as a 3-19 girls state academy. We are a thriving, all through learning community, embracing core traditional values with a firm eye on the ever-changing future. Our overall school direction can be encapsulated in three words: challenge, opportunity and partnership. Girls are encouraged to be challenged, take risks and to develop a life-long love of learning. They are given every opportunity to develop in to fearless, confident and responsible young women. We foster a family community within the school and also, we are very much part of the GDST wider family, sharing their aims as pioneers and shapers of girls’ education. BHSA students are strong members of this movement, with our girls benefitting from and contributing to the GDST’s extensive network.
We firmly promote the all through approach to education, with the Junior School’s “Grow, Flourish, Think” model seamlessly blending in with the Sixth Form “Aspirational, Inspired, Independent” message.
We have the highest standards in achievement, attendance, appearance and conduct. Our girls have access to outstanding levels of support both on the academic and pastoral front, coupled with plenty of stretch and challenge. Our high aspirations culture and ethos permeates both in and outside of the classroom and girls are encouraged to take advantage of our extensive enrichment programme and the plethora of GDST activities throughout their time at the school.

Arranging a visit to Birkenhead High School Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email applications@birkhs.gdst.net.

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