Principal - Pix Brook Academy
Pix Brook Academy, Stotfold, SG5 4HB14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2025
Closing date
5 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
15 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Competitive
Principal - Pix Brook Academy job summary
Job Title: Principal - Pix Brook Academy
Salary: L29 to L35 (£99,067 to £114,759 pa)
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
The Bedfordshire Schools Trust is committed to providing our students with an outstanding education. We are looking for an exceptional Principal to deliver strategic leadership on behalf of the Trust in the development of outstanding education provision.
This is an exciting role for a motivated and dedicated leader with a passion for making a difference to the academy, and who will ultimately deliver the best education for our young people.
The core purpose of the Principal role is to provide professional leadership and management for the academy that reflects the vision, values and beliefs of the Trust. This will promote a secure foundation from which to achieve high standards in all areas of the academy’s work.
BEST believes that Principals should lead their schools whilst being supported and challenged by their Local Committee of the Board. BEST gives Principals the authority to make decisions and set practices in a low-threat, high-challenge environment.
Pix Brook Academy is an extended secondary school currently with 900 pupils, growing to over 1100 over the next two years. The school opened as a new free school in September 2019 with its first intake of year 5 pupils, and in September 2025 we will have pupils from year 5 through to year 11. Designed as an extended secondary school the provision for pupils is based on a model of primary education delivered by primary specialist in KS2 with secondary specialists working with KS3 and KS4 pupils. The successful applicant will be responsible for taking the school forwards on the next stage of its journey.
How to apply…..
To find out more about the role and to express an interest, please visit joinpixbrookacademy (please do not apply via My New Term).
Closing date for applications: 9.00am,Thursday 5th December 2024
Interviews: Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th December 2025.
For an informal, confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Liz Hayden at Satis Education on 07706 333575 or Liz@satiseducation.co.uk
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 Pix Brook Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 9 to 16
- Education phase
- Middle
- School size
- 721 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Pix Brook Academy website (opens in new tab)
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