Executive Principal
Heartwood Learning Trust, York, YO30 6ZS45 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st April 2027
Closing date
30 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £113,646.00 - £122,305.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Points 33 to 36
Executive Principal job summary
Executive Principals, Secondary (Trustwide)
Are you a values driven school leader?
As a Trust, we believe in growing together as a family. Underpinned by our values of Kindness, Respect and Teamwork, our schools are places where young people can grow and excel, and where colleagues work together to build a culture of excellence.
We are looking for Executive Principals to join our Trust and become associate members of our Executive Team.
Lead improvement across a group of very different schoolsHeartwood Learning Trust is a close-knit family of fourteen schools in Hull, York and across North Yorkshire. Our six secondary schools and two alternative provision academies could hardly be more varied: Church schools and community schools, large and small, serving very different communities in and around York, Hull, Scarborough and Selby.
The roleYou will lead improvement across our secondary schools and alternative provision academies, working closely with their Principals: supporting them, challenging them and helping them to lead their schools well. Your work could focus on one school or a cluster, such as our schools in Scarborough/York or our alternative provision academies. You will start where improvement is most needed and, in time, help our stronger schools become even better. As an associate member of the Executive Team, your priorities will be to:
Raise standards of education and outcomes, starting with the schools that need it most
Develop the leadership capacity of Principals and their senior teams, so that improvement lasts
Help shape and deliver the Trust’s strategy for the next five to ten years, including its approach to inclusion and SEND
You will be an experienced headteacher or principal, with a successful track record of school improvement, ready to take the next step. This role is a chance to bring everything you have learned to a wide and varied group of schools, and to make a difference for many more young people. It will suit a flexible and committed team player who relishes new challenges and wants to keep learning. We are looking for a resilient leader and a great people person, who believes, as we do, that kindness and constructive challenge go hand in hand. The role involves working in York, Hull, Scarborough and Selby, and travelling between them.
Whether you are already with us or joining usWe warmly welcome applications from Principals already leading schools in our Trust, as well as from leaders elsewhere. If you lead one of our schools now, you already know our schools, our ways of working and our values. If you are joining us from outside, you will bring a fresh perspective, and we will help you get to know our schools quickly. All applications will be considered on the same basis.
What we offerA commitment to continuing professional development
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Occupational health support
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work scheme
A relocation package may be applicable for candidates moving into the regions we serve from other areas of England.
Download the candidate information pack for the full description of the role, our schools and the person specification. We strongly encourage a visit or an informal conversation before you apply, whether you already work in the Trust or not. To arrange this, please contact recruitment@hlt.academy.
How to apply
To apply, please complete the online application form. Before you start, read the job description and person specification carefully, and use your application to give specific examples of your work in these areas. We may assess you against any of the criteria at each stage of the selection process. We do not accept applications through agencies.
The closing date is 30th November. Interviews will take place on 10th and 11th December.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Heartwood Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Thank you for showing an interest in joining our community of schools at Hope Sentamu Learning Trust.
Our vision is really very simple. We aspire to provide a place children and young people can thrive - life in all its fullness, a place to thrive. Our values are Kindness, Respect and Teamwork.
Here are our commitments:
A respectful and inclusive community, with a culture of thankfulness and appreciation, where we celebrate equality and diversity.
High quality first teaching across all of our schools, in every learning session, without exception.
A broad and balanced educational offer which develops all pupils academically, practically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, leading to great outcomes.
Resilient, sustainable and ethical leadership at all levels of the organisation.
Our Trust comprises of primary and secondary schools as well as alternative provisions. We are a community of fourteen schools, located across York, Hull and North Yorkshire. Our schools are supported by a central operations team and a central school improvement team.
Each one of our schools has its own distinctive character, identity and strengths which it brings to the table so that we all benefit from each other. Collaboration is at the heart of the way that we work across the Trust as every school has something to give and every school needs some help. This resonates with our Trust vision and values.
We are a new Trust, following a recent merger between Hope Learning Trust and Sentamu Academy Learning Trust in September 2021, so this is a very exciting time in our development. I am a big believer in building strong foundations so that we can concentrate on providing the best possible experiences and provision for the children and young people. It makes sense for us to do some things consistently so that we can do the basics really well. Colleagues from across the Trust have the opportunity to get involved in the development of Trust strategy so that our consistent ways of working and areas that we have alignment are developed at grass roots level. We see the alignment of key strategies across the Trust as an ever growing strength and way forward. This approach will get stronger and stronger as we develop and provides excellent career development opportunities for colleagues in all roles at all levels. Our school leaders play an important role in promoting a positive and collaborative culture across the Trust whilst delivering on the key Trust strategies within their schools.
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