Senior Educational Leadership

Owlcotes Multi Academy Trust, Pudsey, LS28 6AB

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  4th January 2027

• Closing date

  21 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: L4 - L8

Senior Educational Leadership job summary

The Opportunity

Are you an ambitious, forward-thinking leader ready to take the next step in your career?

We are seeking an outstanding leader to join one of our Trust schools in a key school-based strategic capacity. Based within a single school, you will sit at the heart of the school’s Senior Leadership Team, working in close partnership with the Headteacher to drive whole-school improvement, champion high standards, and shape the strategic direction of the school.

Whether you are an established senior leader looking for a fresh challenge or a high-performing middle leader ready to step up, this post offers the ideal platform to develop your strategic expertise and make a lasting impact within a school community.

Who We Are Looking For?

We want to hear from leaders who are:

Collaborative & Strategic: Eager to work closely alongside the Headteacher and wider Senior Leadership Team to deliver an inspiring educational vision.

Visionary & Passionate: Driven by high expectations for all pupils and committed to excellence in teaching and learning.

People-Focused: Able to motivate and inspire teams, foster strong relationships across the school community, and lead meaningful change.

Future-Focused: Eager to develop their own leadership skills while empowering staff and pupils to succeed.

Excellent Classroom Practitioner: Able to deliver high-quality teaching and learning and support other staff to develop professionally.

Why Join Owlcotes?

Direct Strategic Impact: Play a central role in guiding a school leadership team while benefiting from the strength and resource of a wider Trust network.

Excellent Professional Development: Tailored professional development designed to support you in your role and develop the school leaders of tomorrow.

A Supportive Network: Work alongside collaborative Headteachers, trust school improvement team and dedicated staff.

Please see the attached recruitment pack for more information and a person specification for this opportunity.

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.

Visas cannot 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

Owlcotes Multi-Academy Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All adults in school, whether paid staff or a volunteer, have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All adults in our schools must abide by Owlcotes Multi-Academy Trust policies and procedure and each school's Safeguarding and Child Protection policy. All successful employment candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Owlcotes Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Owlcotes Multi Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/owlcotes-multi-academy-trust

Owlcotes Multi-Academy Trust was established in March 2018 and is currently based in West Leeds. We work together, sharing a common purpose of providing an excellent education for all pupils across the Trust and improving outcomes for them.

At Owlcotes Trust, we believe that each school that joins us brings something unique and important to the Trust, which benefits all other schools within the MAT. We put children at the heart of everything we do and aim to ensure that all children within the Trust have access to ambitious learning opportunities and experiences not only within their own school but also in partnership with other schools in our trust. We focus on providing the highest quality of education for all our pupils so that our schools are places of excellence, meeting the needs of our diverse communities.

We value all qualities in the children that we teach and the communities that we serve. We firmly believe in schools having their own individuality, underpinned by a common purpose and Owlcotes’ principles. We have a network of collaborative learning communities across the Trust, and we work to develop and share good practice within our philosophy of ‘Working Together to Achieve Excellence’.

The CEO of Owlcotes Multi-Academy Trust is Lesley West, Executive Headteacher of Pudsey Primrose Hill Primary School. Pudsey Primrose Hill an outstanding school and Lesley has a proven track record of working collaboratively with other schools as part of her role as a National Leader of Education.

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