20 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Easter 2026 or sooner

  • Closing date

    1 December 2025 at 11am

  • Date listed

    11 November 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Deputy headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£86,803.00 - £100,540.00 Annually (Actual) L22 - L28

Trust Associate Principal job summary

Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust is offering an exciting opportunity to become a Trust Associate Principal. This is a new post designed to support the Executive Principal for our secondary schools and the Director of School Improvement to drive up standards. The successful applicant will be prepared to provide interim leadership in our academies where necessary. The post may involve deployment at academies to cover any areas of responsibility to drive up standards. The successful applicant will work directly for the Executive Principal in our secondary academies. We are looking to support and give leadership experience to someone who is looking for a headship/Principal post in the near future.

Key responsibilities include:

Providing strong, strategic leadership in line with the Trust’s vision and values either as an interim Principal or as part of senior team

Working collaboratively with senior leaders to drive improvements in teaching, learning, assessment, and curriculum design in our secondary academies

Supporting and developing staff through coaching, CPD, and performance management

Managing day-to-day operations in an academy in the absence of a Principal and ensuring a safe, inclusive learning environment

Working in partnership with stakeholders and the wider community to raise outcomes for all students

We are looking for someone who:

Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, leadership, and organisational skills

Is committed to collaboration, equity, and community engagement

Has a flexible, can-do attitude and is prepared to support where needed

Is experienced across many areas of leadership in secondary schools

The Application Process

Please read carefully all of the information about this post included within this application pack before submitting an application..

Please visit our website at www.lincolnshiregateway.co.uk for details of our Trust and links to our Secondary Academy websites.

For more information or to arrange an informal discussion with our Executive Principal for Secondary, Phil Dickinson please contact our recruitment partner at Academicis, Neil Massie on 07818 875514 or email nmassie@academicis.co.uk

Key Dates

Applications Close - 1December 2025 at 9am

Shortlisting for the post - 3 December 2025

Interview Dates: w/c 8 December 2025

All shortlisted candidates will take part in a variety of selection tasks including interview.

If you require any specific arrangements to be in place for your interview, please notify us of this in advance so that appropriate arrangements can be made.


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

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.

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About Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust

Type
Multi-academy trust
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