Principal
Barclay Academy, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3RB20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
25 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) points L31 - L37 - £104,040 - £120,524 per annum
Principal job summary
Barclay Academy is seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as its next Principal. As the educational leader of the school, the Principal will guide staff and students toward academic success, community engagement, and holistic development in a collaborative and inclusive environment. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in leading the school forward into the next stage of its development, building on the strong foundation and values already in place.
About us:
We are Future Academies: a flourishing multi-academy trust, founded with the aim of improving the life chances and raising the aspirations of young people. We offer a rich and stimulating education comprised of a knowledge-rich curriculum, diverse cultural and extracurricular opportunities, and a strong pastoral support system. All children and young people are welcomed in our inclusive community, and all are challenged to be the best they can be. This ethos is embodied in our Trust values -Knowledge, Aspiration, and Respect - and in our motto, libertas per cultum (“freedom through education”).
Key responsibilities, include:
- Leading strategically by contributing to the trust’s vision and implementing it within the local context of the academy.
- Leading the school , its staff and pupils to excellence.
- Acting as the model for excellence across every function of the school.
- Ensuring the advancement and elevation of life chances for the young people in our care.
- Working collaboratively and in partnership with colleagues from the central team to realise the ambition of trustees and the executive team.
- The recruitment, training, and retention of highly qualified staff.
Staff benefits: Future Academies recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success. To demonstrate this all staff are offered the following benefits:
- A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues.
- Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression.
- Employer Contributions to Local Government or Teachers Pension Scheme.
- Mintago – access to numerous cost saving employee benefits including fantastic cost savings on childcare.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to a Virtual GP
Should you wish to visit the school prior to submitting your application, please email HRenquiries@futureacademies.org and a member of the central HR team will coordinate a visit for you.
Alternatively, should you wish to have a confidential discussion about the role, you can email HR who will gladly coordinate this for you, or you can contact Ben Keely, Secondary Director directly via email - ben.keely@futureacademies.org.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Barclay Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 916 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Barclay Academy website (opens in new tab)
Barclay Academy sits in the beautiful Historic Old Town in Stevenage. We have strong transport links in the town including a 20 minute commute into London.
The school’s main aim is to develop our students’ potential to the full and to help them grow into successful, caring and respectful young people. In order to achieve this, Barclay provides a safe, supportive environment within which student’s academic, cultural and emotional needs are met. The school motto – “Believe, Achieve, Exceed” – underlines the opportunities for all members of the Barclay community.
There is outstanding pastoral support so that our students are able to engage with the curriculum, make progress and enjoy what the school has to offer.
The Academy is growing strongly once more, but we still endeavour to meet the needs of children here as individuals. We are ambitious and set ourselves challenging objectives. This is an exciting time for Barclay as we have rapidly improved the quality of teaching and learning. Our dedicated and hardworking staff team have a real commitment to ensuring that students have the opportunity to make progress and enjoy success.
We set high expectations and, as a result, our students are smart, well behaved and respectful. Students have many opportunities for enrichment, both in school and through a range of educational visits, to enhance their learning in the classroom. We look forward to welcoming you to the Barclay Academy to see us at first hand.
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