Executive Headteacher (Hub Lead)
St Michael's CofE Academy, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 9JA6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L24 – L27 (starting point negotiable)
What skills and experience we're looking for
St. Michael’s CofE Academy, part of Enhance Academy Trust, is a vibrant and successful school situated in Wakefield, close to the M1. Due to the retirement of our current Headteacher, we are seeking to appoint a dynamic and talented Executive Headteacher to work with a very special community of children, staff and parents continuing to lead them on their journey to excellence.
As our Trust grows, we are developing a new Hub model where four schools close to each other will be overseen by an Executive Headteacher (Hub Lead). This is a rare opportunity for an experienced and ambitious leader to develop their career through leading their own school while also providing highly effective support and challenge to Headteachers in three other schools and exploiting the opportunities of close school collaboration.
You will have a strong track record in leadership and a proven track record of delivering sustained and measurable school improvement.
In return, you will receive unparalleled access to support and career advancement through working closely with our CEO, Deputy CEO and Director of School Improvement as part of the Trust’s Executive Team.
To find out more about St Michael’s and Enhance Academy Trust please visit our websites:
www.stmichaelsceacademy.org.uk andwww.enhanceacad.org.uk
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and strongly encouraged.
To arrange a visit and for a discussion about the role please contact Mark Randall, CEO: mark.randall@enhanceacad.org.uk
What the school offers its staff
Some quotes from our Headteachers:
Over the past academic year, the Trust have supported our academy to continue to move forward at all levels. Up to date, relevant and well considered advice and guidance is always available and appreciated. Trust leaders ensure that views of school leaders are always valued and opportunities for personal and professional growth are actively encouraged. Our children are consistently achieving better at all phases than at any other time in the academy’s history; the Trust is a key part of that success.
When I interviewed for the Headteacher role at Horbury Bridge Academy, two key questions were posed: how could we join an Academy Trust while preserving our unique identity and ethos, and how could we retain and develop great teachers? Joining Enhance Academy Trust has been the answer to both. The Trust’s collegiate working and collaboration have led to rapid improvements while ensuring the unique character and values that define Horbury Bridge remain at the heart of everything we do. As a result, our outcomes for pupils are exceptionally strong—academically, spiritually, and holistically—ensuring every child is fully prepared to embrace the next stage of their education with confidence and ambition.
Having been a Headteacher of a Local Authority school before joining Enhance, I can fully appreciate what the Trust offers to its schools. The support, whether it be school improvement, financial, HR or estates, is second to none and helps to drive schools forward to ensure that the children get the very best. The Central Team know each school very well and understand the different contexts that our schools serve.
The support and challenge provided through visits and development opportunities from Enhance Academy Trust have been instrumental in driving meaningful change. These opportunities offer clarity on our goals and ensure that our leadership remains proactive and aligned with current national initiatives. The tailored advice and guidance empower our school to not only meet expectations, but to thrive. This invaluable partnership truly enables all schools to flourish.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a successful and forward-looking academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
As part of Enhance Academy Trust, we offer a comprehensive and personalised development program.As a Trust, we have developed a range of employee benefits. Here are some of them:
- Membership to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Physical and mental health support from a team of experienced nurses, counsellors, therapists, physiotherapists, consultants plus NHS GPs and private medical services.
- GP consultations with experienced NHS doctors are available for our employees and members of their household, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and prescriptions (which have to paid for) can be delivered to local chemists.
- Free annual flu jab
- Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
- A paid annual Wellbeing Day – a time for you to use the day for an activity which promotes your own individual health and wellbeing.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people. We expect all staff, volunteers and governors to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
Offers of employment will be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical, online and social media check for shortlisted candidates, prohibition from teaching, right to work, two satisfactory references.
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
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Additional documents
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About St Michael's CofE Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 490 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- St Michael's CofE Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- mark.randall@enhanceacad.org.uk
We are committed to building the skills, knowledge and positive attitudes necessary to help all our pupils become responsible, respectful and tolerant citizens of the future. Through our shared aims, mutual respect and working together, we will believe in ourselves and develop as individuals who make a positive impact on each other and the world around us.
St Michael’s CE Academy provides education in accordance with the principles and practices of the Church of England. Worship, religious education and spiritual development are at the heart of every aspect of our experience.
At St Michael’s CE Academy, we aim to provide all of our pupils with a high quality education within a caring Christian environment where Christian values of trust, forgiveness, friendship, truthfulness and perseverance, hope, responsibility, thankfulness, justice and peace are embedded. Collective worship and Religious Education are effective in communicating the Christian values and are specifically linked to the half termly worship and PSHCE themes. Pupils develop a growing understanding of these Christian values as they progress through the school and this is reflected in, and impacts on, their behaviour and attitudes to each other, the whole school, the wider community and their daily life.
Arranging a visit to St Michael's CofE Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mark.randall@enhanceacad.org.uk.
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