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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    18 March 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    27 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: Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£87,651 to £109,275 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for an exceptional Principal to lead us on our journey to excellence.

We want to hear from ambitious, talented senior leaders and established Principals who will bring inspirational leadership to our school. You will be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people with the natural ability to inspire and motivate both pupils and peers.

With substantial leadership experience as a Principal or Deputy, you will lead an approach that sees every challenge as an opportunity to continually improve standards of education and to foster an outstanding learning environment. As a Star leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

  • A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
  • Substantial experience of senior leadership and management within and across school settings.
  • The ability to create, and secure commitment to, a clear vision for an effective and high achieving school.
  • A strong commitment to our STAR values.

What the school offers its staff

About Star Radcliffe Academy

Star Radcliffe Academy is a five-form entry, 750 place, 11-16 secondary school in Radcliffe.

The academy opened in September 2024 to pupils in Year 7 and will grow year-on-year so that from 2028 it will accommodate pupils in the full 11-16 age range.

Like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism – providing a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Star Radcliffe Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
Up to 750 pupils
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

School location

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