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  • Start date details

    January 2026

  • Closing date

    13 October 2025 at 12:59am

  • Date listed

    26 September 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£97,645.00 - £107,701.00 Annually (Actual)

Head of School - Internal Provisions - Cambridgeshire job summary

Lead with Purpose - Become Our Head of School for Internal Provisions

Full-Time | Permanent | Executive Leadership Role
Location: Cambridgeshire

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for inclusion, therapeutic education, and transformational outcomes? Do you thrive on building high-performing teams and shaping provision for the most vulnerable scholars? If so, this is a rare opportunity to lead at scale and make a lasting impact.

Astrea Academy Trust is seeking an exceptional Head of School - Internal Provisions to lead our specialist settings across Cambridgeshire. These provisions deliver high-tariff intervention outside of mainstream education, offering therapeutic support, structure, and a high-quality, tiered curriculum. This executive leadership role reports to the Executive Principal and Deputy Director of Secondary Education.

About the Role

You will provide strategic and operational leadership across all internal provisions, ensuring therapeutic and academic excellence for scholars requiring intensive support. You’ll line manage senior leaders, drive high standards, and lead safeguarding, behaviour, and curriculum systems across multiple sites. This is a pivotal role in shaping inclusive excellence and codifying best practice across the trust.

What We’re Looking For

You will be:

  • A strategic leader with deep expertise in inclusion, SEND, and alternative provision
  • Experienced in leading high-impact teams and driving improvement
  • Skilled in coaching, mentoring, and developing staff through targeted CPD
  • Confident in managing complex safeguarding and pastoral systems
  • A culture-builder who embeds high expectations, structure, and therapeutic care
  • A collaborative leader who builds trust and alignment across diverse stakeholders
  • Aligned with Astrea’s mission: every scholar can learn, thrive, and lead a successful life

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to lead transformational work across a trust committed to equity, excellence, and inclusion. You’ll be supported by a strong executive team and a values-driven culture focused on high expectations, powerful knowledge, and warm-strict behaviour systems.

Interested in Applying?

If you’re ready to shape the future of inclusive education at Astrea Academy Trust, we’d love to hear from you. For an initial conversation, please contact Stephen Casey or Sarah Fedun at: recruitment@astreaacademytrust.org

Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Ready to Lead with Purpose? If you're ready to take the next step in your leadership journey and shape the future of education in Cambridgeshire, apply today and be part of our mission to inspire beyond measure.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks. 

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About Astrea Academy Trust

Type
Multi-academy trust
Website
Astrea Academy Trust website
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Astrea is a trust that is coming of age and moving beyond its foundational years into a mature phase of development, our aim is that every child gets a brilliant education. Our work starts and ends with a universal belief in high standards and expectations for every child, no matter what barriers they face.

Underpinning our vision is a commitment that knowledge and scholarship will be celebrated, we want our children to become resilient in the face of challenge and we commit to providing all Astrea children with rich opportunities and to supporting them every step of the way. I am incredibly proud of what the Astrea family has achieved and as the trust matures, we are in a strong position to embark upon this next exciting phase, where all of our energy will be focused on providing a brilliant education which helps children to learn, thrive and lead successful lives.

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