Headteacher (Hub Lead Headteacher)
St Michael's CofE Academy, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 9JA17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
22 April 2025
Closing date
13 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
25 November 2024
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
- L21 – L27 (starting point negotiable) £81,441 - £94,332
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an ambitious leader with a proven track record of delivering sustained and measurable school improvement? Are you looking for your next step?
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 highly regarded Headteacher, we are seeking to appoint a dynamic and talented leader to work with a very special community of children, staff and parents continuing to lead them on their journey to excellence.
The successful candidate will a be a highly visible, collaborative and aspirational leader who will model the highest levels of professionalism and inspire, motivate and develop our staff and children setting them firmly on the road to success.
We are looking for a Headteacher who:
- Is an exceptional primary practitioner
- Will fully embrace the ethos of a Christian school in the tradition of the Church of England
- Is a team player with high expectations and proven track record of developing the curriculum and sustaining high outcomes
- Is well-motivated, innovative and able to support others to deliver the highest standards
- Displays excellent leadership skills and can develop leadership skills in others
- Can build strong relationships
- Is passionate about making a difference
- Is committed to working with parents, the community, the Local Academy Board and the Trust to achieve the very best for all our pupils
Enhance Academy Trust is a successful and growing Church of England Multi-Academy Trust. We currently comprise of 13 Primary schools and a Post 16 Creative and Performing Arts Free School. We will welcome 3 more Primary schools to the Trust in September 2025. From September 2025, we will work in a Hub model to further promote collaboration and partnership working.
As Hub Lead, you will work closely with our Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO offering bespoke support and challenge to individual schools and more widely across the Hub. You will play a key leadership role within your Hub promoting strong and effective collaboration and partnership working. You will also lead a key area across the wider Trust.
To be successful as Hub Lead, you will need to be self-propelled, innovative, creative and flexible. Most importantly, you will need to be an individual who can develop effective relationships and get the best from others.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A warm, welcoming, inclusive school with a friendly, dedicated and talented team of caring and highly motivated staff
- A community of children, staff and governors with high aspirations and a real thirst for learning and success
- A genuine opportunity to lead and make a difference
- A school rooted firmly in the local community
- The opportunity to work as part of a dynamic and diverse group of schools within a forward thinking, supportive and ambitious Trust that strives for excellence and believes in investing in and empowering leaders.
- The opportunity to further develop your skills and expertise by working closely with our Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO.
To find out more about St Michael’s and the wider Trust please visit our websites at: www.stmichaelsceacademy.org.ukand www.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. Further details and Application Forms are also available by email.
Completed Application Forms should be returned by email to mark.randall@enhanceacad.org.uk by Friday 13th December.
Interviews will be held in early January and will involve visits to the schools of shortlisted candidates.
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.
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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
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- 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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