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Senior Assistant Principal - Director of Sixth Form

Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RW

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• 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

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

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Additional documents

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

BSA Principal Letter.pdf - 155 KB (opens in new tab)

Senior Assistant Principal (Sixth Form).pdf - 273 KB (opens in new tab)

About Boston Spa Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1498 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Boston Spa Academy website
• Email address: susie.dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/boston-spa-academy

Boston Spa Academy is a mixed, secondary school for children aged 11-18 based in Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire with a growing reputation for academic excellence, high quality personal development provision and strong pastoral support. The school has around 1,500 students of which approximately 260 attend the growing sixth form.


In September 2018, Boston Spa Academy officially joined the highly successful and nationally renowned GORSE trust. As a direct impact of working with colleagues at GORSE the academy has moved from being a school with average performance to one which is now well above the national average. Boston Spa Academy is now amongst the highest performing schools in Leeds, the Yorkshire and Humber region and the country.


The academy has invested significantly in facilities for our students in recent years, including a brand new auditorium building, new student and staff toilet areas, renovated dining halls, new classroom areas, brand-new library and IT facilities and our new Sixth Form Centre which opened in September 2026.


Our Vision and Values: Shaping Character; Cultivating AmbitionAt Boston Spa Academy, we truly value the holistic development of our students as part of our vision to be ‘shaping character; cultivating ambition’. We support students in developing the character traits required to be well-rounded individuals and for them to be prepared with the skills, habits and qualifications required for success in their future careers.


Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the ‘core values’ to which we hold dear and permeate through all that we do at the academy:

• Purpose


• Positivity


• Principled


• Participation


• Professionalism

Our ‘Shaping Character Programme’ is a wide ranging and incredibly exciting personal development programme which ensures that all young people at Boston Spa Academy enjoy the experiences and education required to become well-rounded individuals. This programme includes, but is not limited to, our ‘Character and Ambition Pathway’, extensive educational visits programme, House System, Student Leadership opportunities and our Enrichment++ provision, which is designed to encourage young people to learn beyond the classroom and includes opportunities to take part in sport, art, languages, humanities, science, outdoor pursuits and a range of volunteering and charitable work at local, national and international levels.


As part of GORSE, Boston Spa Academy is in the vanguard of educational developments in Leeds, Yorkshire and on a national level. As a school community, we strive to deliver an exceptional standard of education and this is reflected in the excellent outcomes that students achieve at both GCSE and A Level.


At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our most recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.


Mr Peter Hollywood
Principal

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