Head Teacher
Nottingham University Samworth Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 4HY22 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, as per School Teachers pay and conditions
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L25 to L31
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an experienced Head Teacher or Senior Leader ready to make a lasting impact? Do you thrive on driving excellence, inclusivity, and innovation in education? If so, we invite you to lead our school into its next chapter of success.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an accomplished and ambitious educational leader to shape the future of our school. We are looking for a visionary Head Teacher who can inspire staff, engage students, and foster strong community relationships. Your leadership will be pivotal in creating an inclusive, high-achieving, and supportive learning environment where every student thrives.
As part of Nova Education Trust, you will benefit from collaboration with a network of like-minded leaders, access to professional development, and the resources to drive real change. This role offers the perfect platform to influence not only the direction of our school but also contribute to the broader Trust-wide vision for excellence.
About You:
- A proven Head Teacher or Senior Leader with a track record of raising standards
- A dynamic and forward-thinking educational leader
- Passionate about inclusive education and ensuring every student reaches their full potential
- A collaborative leader who can engage and inspire staff, students, and the community
- Committed to upholding and embedding the values of Nova Education Trust
If you are a leader who puts their values at the heart of everything you do we look forward to hearing we would love to hear from you.
For further details, please refer to the attached job pack.
What the school offers its staff
We offer an exciting, dynamic and collegiate workplace environment. It is our staff that make a difference to children’s lives and so staff development and professional learning for both teaching and non-teaching roles are centre of our strategic planning to make this a certainty.
As part of our trust, staff can engage with professional learning at an individual, school, trust, regional and national level, as learners and as facilitators and designers of excellent staff training. We see all of our staff as career-long learners and our commitment to professional development includes supporting staff to engage with a range of formal qualifications (such as the NPQs and postgraduate study) as well as bespoke provision to meet emerging needs and aspirations.
All our staff have access to Nova Perks, an employee benefits system bring a range of fantastic benefits including a Bike Scheme, Technology Scheme, Motorsave, Lifestyle Benefits, Instant Discounts, Savings Club, Peer-to-Peer, Liftshare, Car Salary Sacrifice, Health Cash Plan, Gym Scheme, Workplace ISAs, Financial Planning, Healthy Living Resource Module and Financial Education Resource Module.
In our commitment to continue to support employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance, Nova Education Trust offers employees the opportunity to take up to a maximum of one paid ‘Nova Perk Day’ per academic year, in addition to the existing standard leave provisions in place. This can be taken for any chosen reason and does not need to have a defined purpose.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust and school are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will be required to undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with DfE requirements.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Nottingham University Samworth Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 875 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Nottingham University Samworth Academy website
- Email address
- sgray@novaeducationtrust.net
NUSA is wonderful school community where pupils and staff are happy. The following quote from the recent Ofsted report captures what a warm and inviting place that it is:
“Pupils are proud and happy to be part of this inclusive school. The atmosphere is cheerful and friendly. Pupils feel safe. They have positive relationships with staff, who know them well and challenge them. Pupils also have respectful relationships with each other. One simply said, ‘We all just get along.’ The school expects everyone to work hard and be kind. Pupils understand this. They say staff are fair. They trust staff to address any disruption so that learning can continue. Pupils get ‘green flags’
when they go above and beyond expectations. This motivates them.” Ofsted (May 2023)
Our aim is to ensure that all pupils reach their full potential. The recent examination results for the school demonstrate the excellent progress that the school has made in recent years. We however know that we can do even better for our pupils, to give them the very best life chances. Our staff are committed and driven to do all they can for our school community. We know and understand that school is more than just examination outcomes. We work hard to ensure that our pupils leave school as good citizens, are ‘rounded and grounded’ and who make positive contributions to society. The school celebrates diversity; our recent survey of pupils told us that pupils at NUSA feel safe, they enjoy the diverse communities in the school and say to us that they feel that they belong. We are really proud of this.
Arranging a visit to Nottingham University Samworth Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sgray@novaeducationtrust.net.
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