Star Principal (Birmingham)

Star Academies, Blackburn, BB1 2HT

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC, subject to notice periods

• Closing date

  7 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: L26 to L35 (£92,052 to £114,759)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for an exceptional Principal to lead us on our journey of sustained excellence.

We want to hear from ambitious, talented senior leaders and established Principals who will bring inspirational leadership to our school. You will be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people with the natural ability to inspire and motivate both pupils and peers.

With substantial leadership experience as a Principal or Deputy, you will lead an approach that sees every challenge as an opportunity to continually improve standards of education and to foster an outstanding learning environment. As a Star leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

• Degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.

• Substantial experience of senior leadership and management within and across school settings.

• Experience of successful leadership of change management within a school.

• The ability to create, and secure commitment to, a clear vision for an effective and high achieving school.

• The ability to lead and manage people to work towards common goals.

What the school offers its staff

About Star Central

Star Central, which is based at our head office in Blackburn, Lancashire, provides leadership, strategic direction and support to Star Academies, Star Institute and our schools.

The Star Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding support service to the Star community. We support our schools to provide educational and operational excellence and to cultivate a strong Star community, with the aim of nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders.

The successful candidate will be deployed to a secondary school within Birmingham.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Star Academies

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: daniel.burgess@staracademies.org
• Phone number: 0330 313 9150
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