School Senior Leadership Opportunities
The Mercian Trust, Walsall, WS1 2PG7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2026
Closing date
17 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L2-L17
What skills and experience we're looking for
School Senior Leadership Opportunities
We are looking for Middle Leaders ready to take on their first Senior Leadership role, existing Senior Leaders looking to progress to Headship, and experienced Senior Leaders looking to broaden their experience across different schools.
We have a range of exciting current roles and career development opportunities to suit you and your professional growth ambitions. Our Senior Leaders work throughout our diverse family of twelve schools including two alternative provisions schools, two selective secondary schools, a studio school, five comprehensive secondary schools, a primary school, and a special school. We are looking for leaders who are excited about working at an Academy Trust that puts social mobility and social justice at the heart of everything it does.
This career opportunity isn’t solely for one specific leadership role or school, but instead we are looking to put together a team of the most talented school leaders to really make a difference across all of our schools.
By joining this team of new and developing school leaders, you will benefit from a three-year bespoke programme of leadership development, coaching, mentoring and support, enabling you to sustainably grow your career with us.
We are recruiting to these roles with the offer of flexible starting dates. All roles are permanent positions and will be paid on the Leadership scale. You will be employed by The Mercian Trust and initially work in one of our schools to best match your skills and development needs, and our schools’ requirements. You will benefit from the opportunity to experience the diversity of our different school settings.
What the school offers its staff
How to apply
Download our job pack for the full story of our Trust, and all the information you need about this exciting role. We are confident that you will feel that this is a great opportunity, but we know that you will want to find out more about our Trust, our schools, and these roles and we are delighted to be opening our doors on Tuesday 4th November 2025 between 4.00pm and 6.00pm at Q3 Academy Great Barr, B43 7SD (just a couple of minutes from M6 J7) so you can join us for a coffee and find out more.
By joining us for the afternoon, you will be able to meet our CEO, Dan Parkes, and our Executive Leadership Team, who will be able to answer your questions, share more about our current schools and those due to join us, and give the information you need to support your application.
We really look forward to meeting you then.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
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About The Mercian Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- The Mercian Trust website
- Email address
- jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk
The Mercian Trust is one of the largest regional Trusts in the West Midlands with 9 schools and more than 9,600 students.
We are growing in size and influence, and we are committed to driving social mobility for all our students in the communities we serve through increasing opportunities and improving outcomes. We have stated our commitment to becoming and employer of choice, for leaders, teachers, student support staff and our business professional services staff in whichever school or central team they work.
Arranging a visit to The Mercian Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk.
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