Principal
The Stephen Longfellow Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11 8PG15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Required for January 2025 or earlier by negotiation
Closing date
16 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 August 2024
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Point 37-43
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified, enthusiastic, dynamic and inspirational Principal to lead our remarkable school.
What the school offers its staff
The Stephen Longfellow Academy is an Alternative Provision based in the South of Leeds that has changed the face of Alternative Provision, both locally and nationally. Opened in September 2017, The Stephen Longfellow Academy serves schools across Leeds to support some of the most vulnerable young people in the city, across the primary and secondary age-range, to re-engage with education by following a bespoke curriculum offer that reopens the doors of opportunity that were, at one point, firmly closed. This is because our exceptional team of staff create personalised pathways that combine an academically rich curriculum with personalised therapeutic support. This allows significant numbers of students to re-engage in mainstream education or successfully enter further education, employment or training.
Inspected in October 2019, inspectors told us that, ‘Leaders want the very best for pupils and have established an effective alternative provision in a short period of time. They are working together well to make this school even better for the benefit of its pupils and their families.’ They also judged all areas of the academy to be Good. We strongly believe that the provision has developed significantly since this time and the demand for places at The Stephen Longfellow Academy also aligns with this view. We are seeking a committed and passionate leader who will further build on this and ensure that, year upon year, pupils at The Stephen Longfellow Academy receive an outstanding experience and that the provision remains one which is highly respected by all stakeholders and an enjoyable place to work.
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.
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About The Stephen Longfellow Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- 1 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- recruitment@stephenlongfellow.leeds.sch.uk
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