Principal
Ipswich Academy, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 0SP5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full time.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Pay Scale L25 - L31 £89,830 - £104,040 per annum.
What skills and experience we're looking for
Paradigm Trust is looking to appoint a principal into the team at Ipswich Academy from September 2025.
The school has an unrelenting focus on supporting and challenging pupils to achieve academic success, while also enjoying a broad and balanced curriculum.
The Trust
When you join Paradigm, you’ll be joining a Trust that is committed to developing and sustaining great schools to make the biggest difference for pupils. It’s a place where we work together, helping each other to make sure every child can reach their potential.
We are only able to do this through the hard work of our staff, and so we value them accordingly. At Paradigm you’ll be supported with your career goals, with ongoing professional development and numerous opportunities to progress on your career path. Staff health is extremely important to us, and as part of Paradigm you’ll enjoy a range of benefits that are designed to support your wellbeing, as well as a highly competitive rewards package.
If you have a passion to make a difference, we would love to hear from you.
The Position
The successful candidate will contribute to the overall leadership of the Trust, and model the standards and behaviours of an excellent leader in education.
You will have the ability to establish, develop and maintain professional and effective working relationships with the CEO and the other members of the Board of Directors, the Trust’s executive leadership team, staff, parents/carers and pupils/students, other schools in the Trust, stakeholders, agencies and members of the local community.
You will ensure there is a positive ethos in the school in which individuals feel valued and an excellent education is provided for all pupils.
What you will offer
This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious professional who wants to make an impact. Leaders at Paradigm Trust are committed to changing children’s lives through continuing growth and commitment to excellence and the successful candidate will therefore have the inspiration and drive to ensure Ipswich Academy provides an excellent education to its pupils.
What the school offers its staff
You will be joining a friendly and engaging workplace with benefits including:
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS)
- A strong commitment to professional development
- We strive to be a family friendly employer
- Employee counselling service
- Cycle to work scheme
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.
About Ipswich Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1044 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ipswich Academy website
- Email address
- zoe.bradbury@paradigmtrust.org
- Phone number
- 01473 356250
"Good" co-educational Secondary school - ages 11-16
Arranging a visit to Ipswich Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email zoe.bradbury@paradigmtrust.org.
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