Principal
Bristol Metropolitan Academy, Bristol, Bristol, BS16 2HD7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, All Year Round
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L30-L34 (£101,533 - £111,976)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone with extensive experience of strategic school leadership, building teams and developing staff, and planning and delivering raising attainment programmes. They should be equally familiar with leading change management projects, and with innovating processes which have a tangible impact on pupil outcomes. Past success in re-motivating disengaged learners and improving attendance and behaviour is vital.
Our successful candidate will be a passionate advocate for the power of education and an unremitting belief in the potential of young people and their capacity to succeed. They will demonstrate a visionary approach to teaching, outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, and a talent for creative problem-solving. Promoting the welfare of children will be at the heart of all they do.
It is critical that the successful candidate will be adept at quickly building and nurturing positive and purposeful relationships throughout the school community with colleagues, students and families. An ability to make and justify difficult decisions is required, along with a demonstrable commitment to equality. Our new Principal will also be committed to working closely with supportive colleagues from across the CLF and the wider education sector while upholding the highest standards of personal integrity and conduct. They will embody professionalism, honesty and loyalty in all that they do.
What the school offers its staff
Since opening in 2009, Bristol MetropolitanAcademy has improved almost year on year, andthe facts are clear – our students make significantlymore progress than their peers around the country.
This is achieved through our relentless focus onhigh quality teaching and curriculum, and thecreation of a learning environment which supportsstudents to thrive.Bristol Met’s excellence is recognised withinboth the national education sector and our widercommunity.
Sue Williamson, Chief Executive of the SpecialistSchools and Academies trust, has congratulatedBristol Met for ‘exceptional achievement’, and for‘leading the field in improving GCSE outcomes fortheir students’.Similarly, Ofsted inspectors have praised our‘inspiring’ and ‘ambitious’ curriculum, ‘harmonious’environment and the determination of schoolleaders to deliver the highest quality provisionfor students. That has helped ensure more of ourstudents are going on to further education thanever before.And locally, nearby primary schools bring theirstudents to Bristol Met to share our outstandingfacilities and benefit from our teaching expertise insubjects like science, technology and languages.
We work alongside those schools – and, of course,colleagues throughout the Cabot LearningFederation – to share staff training to benefit ourteam and our students.
Our partnerships extend to local businessleaders too, who offer additional opportunitiesfor students, ranging from work experience tomentoring to mock interviews, as well as trips andvisits.
Underpinning all of these is a culture ofparticipation and high expectations, and an ethosof belonging.We want Bristol Metropolitan Academy to be asafe, purposeful and happy place for studentsto learn. That is why we encourage all studentsto get involved in a broad range of activitiesbefore, during and after the school day, as well asengagement in valuable work-based and furtherstudy skills.
From the free breakfast club at the start of the dayto after-school opportunities in sport, the arts andstudy, students are keen to join new activities, tosupport one another and most of all, to have fun.
Current extracurricular opportunities range fromfootball and fencing to drama and debating, andfrom coding and cricket to band and basketball.
Throughout the year, students are encouragedto showcase their skills and talents to peers andvisitors through concerts, musical displays, talentshows and sporting demonstrations – all embracedby large, supportive crowds, and through ourpassion to create, to celebrate, to participate andto have fun as part of the Bristol Metropolitancommunity.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bristol Metropolitan Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1108 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bristol Metropolitan Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@clf.uk
Bristol Metropolitan Academy is part of the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF). Bristol Metropolitan Academy is an oversubscribed forward thinking Academy based in Fishponds, Bristol, rated “Good” with Outstanding features by Ofsted in 2017.
In Summer 2019 the Academy secured attainment that exceeded national average for the first time, with the best results the Academy has ever had. We also secured our best ever Progress 8 score at over +0.5. This followed a trend of continued improvement and one we believe we have seen continued to see against a backdrop of the pandemic and no national benchmarks across the last two summers.
The students are excited to learn and are real ambassadors for our diverse community. 60% of our students come from minority ethnic backgrounds. We have over 40 identified primary languages in our student and staff community with over 35% of our students coming from having English as an additional language backgrounds. A higher than average number of our students are supported with overcoming any barriers due to a special educational need. Overall we believe we enable all students to achieve their very best through our approach to inclusion coupled with our Metropolitan Way; High Standards, High Aspirations and High Expectations.
We welcome applications from anyone excited to work in a fast paced, exciting yet challenging environment. We particularly welcome applications from those who believe they can contribute to our diverse and inclusive community.
Arranging a visit to Bristol Metropolitan Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@clf.uk.
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