Senior Vice Principal

Hall Cross Academy, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN1 2HY

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  30 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L28 - L32

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Directors of Exceed Learning Partnership and Governors of Hall Cross Academy are looking to appoint an exceptional, visionary, and high-impact Senior Vice Principal to play a critical role in its leadership team. This is a unique opportunity to join an academy deeply committed to its inclusive culture, broad curriculum, and mission of "Enjoying Excellence Every Day".

The successful candidate will work directly alongside the Principal and current Senior Leadership Team to drive whole-school improvement, ensure outstanding student outcomes, and champion the academy's core values of Community, Achievement, Respect, and Equality.

Key Areas of Leadership

This high-profile position requires an experienced and strategically-minded leader with a proven track record of making a significant difference. The specific portfolio will be determined based on the successful candidate's strengths and the needs of the academy, but will include strategic responsibility for key aspects of the Academy Development Plan.

Core leadership duties are expected to include, but are not limited to:

• Strategic Leadership: Contributing to the strategic direction of the academy, translating local and national policy into the academy's context, and demonstrating astute leadership within the Multi Academy Trust framework.
• Quality Assurance & Improvement: Leading on a substantial whole-school development area—such as Quality of Teaching and Learning, Student Experience and Pastoral Care, or Standards and Progress—ensuring consistency, high quality, and positive impact across all key stages (KS3, KS4, and Sixth Form).
• Culture & Ethos: Providing a significant presence around the academy, ensuring a safe, calm, nurturing, and well-ordered environment, and leading on the development and promotion of high standards of behaviour and safeguarding.
• People Development: Leading and managing key members of the leadership team, overseeing staff performance management, and coordinating high-quality Continuing Professional Development.

Candidate Requirements

You will be an inspiring and influential senior leader who:

• Holds and articulates clear values and moral purpose focused on world-class education for all students.
• Has extensive knowledge of how effective curriculum design, accurate assessment, and outstanding teaching contribute to excellent student progress and outcomes.
• Is an exceptional communicator, able to build a culture of trust and shared responsibility with students, staff, parents, and stakeholders.
• Is adept at using data to inform strategy, drive school improvement, and hold others to account compassionately and effectively.

If you are a highly-motivated and ambitious leader ready to commit to the vision of Hall Cross Academy, we encourage your application.

What the school offers its staff

Why work for Exceed Learning Partnership and at Hall Cross Academy?

• Excellent career development working alongside a National Leader of Education
• Talented and hard-working professional colleagues who are committed to children’s success across the curriculum
• The support of being part of a successful Multi Academy Trust
• The most up-to-date research and opportunities to influence national policy
• Wonderful pupils and parents who support the school in all its aspirations
• A highly committed and supportive Governing Body
• An inclusive ethos in which everyone is valued and respected

At Exceed Learning Partnership, we have a strong culture of school improvement, and professional development is at the heart of the Trust and all its academies/schools. We offer the opportunity for you to gain your National Qualifications; a dynamic development programme has been established for senior leaders with coaching and mentoring support directly by the National Leader of Education. As part of this programme we have developed opportunities within our Trust to shadow fellow leaders working in outstanding academies in order to learn and be supported by their expertise. Our leaders have a wealth of knowledge and are highly experienced in improving outcomes for pupils.

As a Trust, we are passionate about meeting the needs of all our learners, ensuring their happiness and making the most of their individual talents. The focus on developing a lifelong love of learning is underpinned by rigorous attention to the development of essential skills and tools. We are committed to providing the very best educational opportunities for the pupils of Hall Cross Academy It is an exciting opportunity for you to join this team and ‘make a difference.’

Hall Cross Academy is a large ‘good’ 11-18 comprehensive school based on two sites within Doncaster. The Academy caters for over 2000 students, including over 500 in the sixth form. This makes us one of the largest schools in England.

Our focus at Hall Cross is on pupil wellbeing, personalised curriculum offer and academic progress. Pupils are supported and encouraged to achieve their full potential. We are committed to improvement and development and strive to achieve outstanding status.

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

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

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About Hall Cross Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 2038 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hall Cross Academy website
• Email address: juh@hallcrossacademy.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hall-cross-academy

Hall Cross Academy is a large ‘good’ 11-18 comprehensive school based on two sites within Doncaster. The Academy caters for 2,000 students, including over 500 in the sixth form. This makes us one of the largest schools in England.

Our focus at Hall Cross is on pupil wellbeing, personalised curriculum offer and academic progress. Pupils are supported and encouraged to achieve their full potential. We are committed to improvement and development and strive to achieve outstanding status.

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