Principal

South Axholme Academy, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN9 1BY

16 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  17 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: L23 -30 depending on experience

Principal job summary

Trustees are seeking to appoint a motivated, passionate and forward looking leader to continue South Axholme Academy's development and to help write the next chapter in its story. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to lead a highly successful academy, with an enviable reputation, as part of a small MAT.

South Axholme Academy is an oversubscribed 11 -16 secondary academy with 930 students. It has an excellent reputation locally and further afield as a school where students make outstanding progress both in their studies and in the wider curriculum. Everything it does is based on the South Axholme Mindset – Ready, Resilient, Respectful.

South Axholme Academy is part of Isle Education Trust, a small MAT in North Lincolnshire, which is shortly set to grow in size. The Trust is focussed on inspiring excellence and is an organisation where communities matter and individuals thrive.

The successful candidate will bring significant expertise and experience from a relevant education setting and a proven track record of positive impact in a variety of leadership roles. You will have experience of raising standards in teaching and learning, strategic planning, financial management and staff recruitment and development and understand the criticality of building school culture where all members of the school community can thrive. You will have exceptional communications skills, allowing you to build strong relationships with students, staff, parents, governors, trustees and the Trust team as well as with key external stakeholders.

As a Principal working as part of Isle Education Trust, you will be part of the Trust’s Senior Leadership Team, and will work in a collaborative way with colleagues, offering support and bringing your experience and ideas – genuinely working together to improve our academies. This position offers incredible opportunities for your own leadership and development.

If you are looking for a leadership role, collaborating with a successful team that puts young people first, then this is the role for you.

Closing Date for applications is 09:00 17 March 2025

Please see the attached application pack for further detail and how to apply.

Visits to the Academy

Visits to the Academy are strongly encouraged and we would be delighted to show you around the academy on any of the following dates:

Thursday 6 March 09:00

Friday 7 March 13:30

Wednesday 12 March 14:00

To arrange to attend one of our planned visits please contact Wendy Gibson, HR Professional : WGibson@isleeducationtrust -iet.co.uk

If you are unable to attend any of the planned visits, please contact Wendy Gibson HR Professional : WGibson@isleeducationtrust-iet.co.uk or 01427 43013 to arrange a meeting to discuss the role

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Commitment to safeguarding

To provide support to students to help them re-engage and be ready for education
To provide a safe and inspiring environment in which students can develop into respectful adults
To ensure all our students have access to the same opportunities as students in mainstream schools through an inspiring, broad and balanced curriculum.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About South Axholme Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 944 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: South Axholme Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/south-axholme-academy (opens in new tab)

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