Trust Vice Principal
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust, York, YO30 6ZS21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
To be agreed
Closing date
5 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £73,819.00 - £79,475.00 Annually (FTE) Salary shown above is based on a full time equivalent, Leadership Scale Points 17-20
Trust Vice Principal job summary
We have an exciting new role for leaders who want to make a difference.
We are seeking to appoint two Trust Vice Principals who are aligned with our mission to provide environments where children and young people can thrive and our values Respect, Teamwork and Kindness. We are very excited to offer this opportunity to enhance the leadership and provision across the Trust and play a key role in ensuring that we support our pupils, colleagues and school communities to be given opportunities so that they can live life in all its fullness, now and in the future.
This role will be appointed to one of our schools/academies to enhance the existing senior leadership team. The duration of the placement will be based on the school/academy needs and will play a key role in its development. This role will work in accordance with the requirements of the placement assigned by the Executive Director of Education and will provide strategic and operational support to the Principal of the assigned school by providing strong leadership and management, promoting the vision for the Trust and helping to develop and communicate a clear strategic vision.
We are looking for candidates who have had a highly successful track record in improving experiences and outcomes for disadvantaged pupils and can demonstrate improved outcomes and reduced inequalities within their learning and wellbeing.
You will be given the opportunity to develop your leadership experience over a variety of schools and within the central school improvement team to prepare you for future Headship opportunities.
We would strongly recommend, prior to application, an informal chat about this role with our Chief Executive Officer, Helen Winn. To schedule a call, please email your request to hello@hslt.academy to arrange this.
What we are looking for:
An experienced senior leader with:
A proven track record of securing school improvement;
A proven track record of positively impacting disadvantaged pupils
Experience of using relevant data to drive school improvement and leading school initiatives or staff teams
Experience of working and bringing about positive change in a challenging context.
High expectations when managing, developing, inspiring, challenging and motivating staff.
Exceptional people skills with a positive “can do” attitude
Evidence of applying safe recruitment practices and developing a safe culture in school
An understanding, awareness and empathy for the needs of the pupils
Evidence of continuing professional development and/or personal development.
Ability to travel freely across all schools within the Trust
As a Trust Vice Principal, the successful candidate, when not assigned to one school/academy will be required to travel across all schools working with key areas and people. This agility of this role enables us to place the successful candidate into a school/academy based on emerging needs.
What we can offer:
Experienced and supportive leadership with a collaborative approach and an appreciative culture
An established, experienced and strong central team that works closely with stakeholders across our schools/academies.
A commitment to continuing professional development
Structured support to unlock talent, backed by a collaborative approach and an appreciative culture,
Teachers Pension Scheme
Occupational Health
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work scheme
Job Details:
Type of Contract | Permanent |
Full / Part Time | Full Time Part Time would be considered |
Full Year / Term Time | Term time, inline with Teachers Pay and Conditions |
Working Week | Monday to Friday |
Location | Trust wide; dependant on assignment |
Travel Required | Yes |
Line Manager | Executive Director of Education or, where applicable, assigned school/academy Principal |
For further details, please see the job description and person specification attached
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. You should use the information supplied within the job description & person specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process.
Shortlisting | 6 February 2025 |
Interviews | 13 & 14 February 2025 |
APPLICATIONS VIA AGENCIES WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AT THIS STAGE.
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Commitment to safeguarding
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Hope Sentamu Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Thank you for showing an interest in joining our community of schools at Hope Sentamu Learning Trust.
Our vision is really very simple. We aspire to provide a place children and young people can thrive - life in all its fullness, a place to thrive. Our values are Kindness, Respect and Teamwork.
Here are our commitments:
A respectful and inclusive community, with a culture of thankfulness and appreciation, where we celebrate equality and diversity.
High quality first teaching across all of our schools, in every learning session, without exception.
A broad and balanced educational offer which develops all pupils academically, practically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, leading to great outcomes.
Resilient, sustainable and ethical leadership at all levels of the organisation.
Our Trust comprises of primary and secondary schools as well as alternative provisions. We are a community of fourteen schools, located across York, Hull and North Yorkshire. Our schools are supported by a central operations team and a central school improvement team.
Each one of our schools has its own distinctive character, identity and strengths which it brings to the table so that we all benefit from each other. Collaboration is at the heart of the way that we work across the Trust as every school has something to give and every school needs some help. This resonates with our Trust vision and values.
We are a new Trust, following a recent merger between Hope Learning Trust and Sentamu Academy Learning Trust in September 2021, so this is a very exciting time in our development. I am a big believer in building strong foundations so that we can concentrate on providing the best possible experiences and provision for the children and young people. It makes sense for us to do some things consistently so that we can do the basics really well. Colleagues from across the Trust have the opportunity to get involved in the development of Trust strategy so that our consistent ways of working and areas that we have alignment are developed at grass roots level. We see the alignment of key strategies across the Trust as an ever growing strength and way forward. This approach will get stronger and stronger as we develop and provides excellent career development opportunities for colleagues in all roles at all levels. Our school leaders play an important role in promoting a positive and collaborative culture across the Trust whilst delivering on the key Trust strategies within their schools.
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