Primary School Principal – Star Lancashire Cluster

Star Academies, Blackburn, BB1 2HT

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  6 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £73,819.00 to £92,052.00 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We are seeking a tenacious and driven leader to join our Lancashire Star Cluster, which operates several schools dedicated to high-quality education and supports over 300 schools in the region through professional development.

We want to hear from ambitious, talented senior leaders and established Principals who will bring inspirational leadership to our Star community. You will be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people, with the natural ability to inspire and motivate both pupils and peers.

With leadership experience as a Principal or Deputy, you will lead an approach that views every challenge as an opportunity to continually improve educational standards and foster an outstanding learning environment. As a Star leader, you’ll join a high-performing and supportive network of schools with some of the best leaders in education.

The successful candidate will work within the Star Lancashire cluster, where you will have the opportunity to lead a school and shape the future life chances of young people. You will be deployed to lead one of our schools within the region and will be supported with coaching and a best-in-class professional development programme.

You will have:

• Degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• Substantial experience of senior leadership and management within a school setting.
• 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

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 ofrewards 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.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Recruitment_Information_Pack_Primary_Principal_APR_2025.pdf - 1.02 MB (opens in new tab)

About Star Academies

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: daniel.burgess@staracademies.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/star-academies

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