Senior Assistant Principal - Director of Sixth Form
Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RW19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
23 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant 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 16-20
What skills and experience we're looking for
Boston Spa Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Senior Assistant Principal to join the current Senior Leadership Team and lead the academy’s sixth form provision. This is an incredibly exciting point in the journey of the academy’s sixth form provision and represents an exceptional leadership opportunity for those seeking career progression with the Post-16 sector or for a current Senior Leader looking to develop a long-term career within a highly successful Multi-Academy Trust.
The successful candidate will have a passion for working within the Post-16 sector and will have the knowledge, skills and experience to lead on all aspects of the sixth form provision at Boston Spa Academy as well as developing the provision to be the ‘go-to’ provider of choice in the north of Leeds.
The ideal applicant will be:
- A highly effective Post-16 teacher with a depth of understanding of the progression into, through and out of Post-16 for learners.
- A motivational and inspirational leader with high expectations of all staff.
- Confident, inspirational and able to communicate and deliver a clear vision for the sixth form at the academy.
- Committed to developing our children to reach their full potential regardless of background.
- Approachable and willing to work in a highly effective manner with staff across the trust as well as the academy’s governors to implement strategies to move the sixth form provision forward stridently.
- Able to deliver outstanding outcomes for young people and develop a provision which enriches their skillset, assisting them in securing their desired next steps and ultimately equipping them with the Gift of Choice.
What the school offers its staff
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Free On-Site Carpark
- Membership to a government pension scheme
- £2k Cycle to work scheme
- Specsavers scheme
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Boston Spa Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1429 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Boston Spa Academy website
- Email address
- susie.dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
Working in partnership with The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is a vibrant and successful and school, achieving excellent results and judged to be a Good School in the OFSTED inspection of April 2015.
Located between York, Leeds and Harrogate, Boston Spa Academy is committed to the development of the whole student, the physical, aesthetic, emotional, moral, spiritual as well as the intellectual.
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