Executive Principal

Star Academies, Blackburn, BB1 2HT

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 May 2025

• Closing date

  4 February 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Negotiable

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for a tenacious and driven leader with a proven track record of leading and supporting children to achieve outstanding results - someone who shares the trust’s vision and the belief that all young people, if nurtured and given the right opportunities, can achieve excellence in their academic studies and personal and leadership development.

You will have:

• Degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• Substantial experience of senior leadership and management within and across school settings.
• Experience of successful leadership of change management within a school.
• The ability to create, and secure commitment to, a clear vision for an effective and high achieving school.
• The ability to lead and manage people to work towards common goals.

What the school offers its staff

About Star Academies

Star Academies is a high-performing multi-academy trust that runs more than 30 primary and secondary schools. We are a values-based organisation that works to improve the life chances of young people in areas of social and economic deprivation to help them succeed at the highest levels of education, employment and the professions. Every single day you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to shape a young person’s future - our STAR values embody what we believe is needed to succeed.

Professional development is key to our ongoing success, so we continually invest in our employees through our professional development hub, Star Talent Academy. With a wealth of training, mentoring and progression opportunities across a large, growing group of academies, joining our team of leading education experts could propel your career to the next level.

We can also offer you a range of rewards and benefits, including competitive salaries and pension schemes, generous holiday entitlements and healthcare cash plans.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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About Star Academies

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: daniel.burgess@staracademies.org
• Phone number: 0330 313 9150
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/star-academies (opens in new tab)

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