13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2026

  • Closing date

    11 May 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    28 April 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: Relocation package or support will be offered where required

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£84,699 - £98,105

Pay scale

L21 - L27

What skills and experience we're looking for

Wave Multi Academy Trust is seeking an exceptional and values-driven Senior Principal to provide strategic oversight and strong operational leadership across our Devon regional Alternative Provision academies. This is a senior role, leading and supporting academy leaders to ensure that every child and young person, particularly our most vulnerable, benefits from high-quality education, inclusive practice and outstanding safeguarding within a safe, ambitious and nurturing environment.

Reporting to the Executive Team, the Senior Principal will play a key role in strengthening leadership capacity, driving school improvement and ensuring alignment with Trust priorities, statutory responsibilities and local authority requirements. Working closely with Regional Academy Leads, governance hubs and external partners, the postholder will combine strategic vision with hands-on leadership, stepping in where required to stabilise provision, manage risk and secure sustained improvement.

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape system-wide improvement, influence Trust strategy and make a profound difference to the life chances of children and young people across Devon.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.

What the school offers its staff

Health & Wellbeing

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

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.

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

  • Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
  • Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
  • Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
  • We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
  • Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
  • Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

View advert on school website (opens in new tab)

Additional documents

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

Senior Principal JD and person Spec - Devon.pdf - 226 KB (opens in new tab)

About Wave Multi Academy Trust

Type
Multi-academy trust
Website
Wave Multi Academy Trust website
Email address
recruitment@waveedu.org
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teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wave-multi-academy-trust

Wave Multi Academy Trust (MAT) comprises of nine regional alternative provision academies, two medical academies in Devon and Cornwall and a special academy in Devon for pupils with social communication and interaction needs.

We provide support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools; or in the last four terms of compulsory education, integration into the world of work or further education.

Arranging a visit to Wave Multi Academy Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@waveedu.org.

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