Vice Principal

BBG Academy, Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire, BD19 4BE

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  24 August 2026

• Closing date

  1 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 78,702.00 - 91,158.00

Vice Principal job summary

BBG Academy, Bradford Road, Birkenshaw, Bradford, BD19 4BE

Job Title: Vice Principal - Behaviour, Attendance and Safeguarding

Grade: L18-24

Reporting to: The Principal

Start date: 24.08.2026

We place the highest importance on standards of behaviour and student aspiration. We believe that a culture of respect, focus, and ambition creates the foundation for success, both in the classroom and beyond. Alongside this, resilience is the cornerstone of our approach. We actively cultivate determination and perseverance in our students and colleagues, enabling us to secure consistently strong outcomes year on year. It allows us to build confidence within our young people, helping them to persist in the face of setbacks and to enable our students and colleagues to demonstrate adaptability and positivity as core characteristics.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Vice Principal to join us on our journey. We are seeking to appoint an exceptional senior leader with responsibility for behaviour, attendance, safeguarding and student experience. You will play a pivotal role in continuing to drive standards across the academy, shaping a culture where excellence is the norm and every student is empowered to thrive. We are looking for a leader who shares our passion, embodies our values, and is committed to setting the conditions in which both students and staff can flourish.

This is a career-defining opportunity to take on a newly created Vice Principal role, with a clear focus on behaviour, safeguarding, attendance and the wider student experience.

If you are seeking a senior leadership position where you can shape strategic direction alongside an established and successful team that puts young people first, this role offers a unique and exciting challenge.

As Vice Principal at BBG Academy, you will be highly visible and provide strategic oversight across key pastoral systems, building on strong existing practice to ensure consistency, coherence and continued improvement. This is a role with real scope: the successful candidate will help define and develop the strategic layer that strengthens day-to-day operational leadership in behaviour, safeguarding, attendance and student experience.

You will bring clarity of vision and moral purpose, underpinned by a deep commitment to ensuring every student feels safe, supported and able to thrive. You will lead with integrity, resilience and professionalism, embodying the Nolan Principles and working collaboratively with colleagues to secure the very best outcomes for all learners.

Working closely with the Principal and wider leadership team, you will drive a culture of high expectations, ensuring that systems are robust, inclusive and impactful. You will champion a positive and inclusive student experience, where strong relationships, clear routines and effective safeguarding practice underpin a calm, purposeful environment for learning.

The role requires a strategic thinker with a strong track record of impact in pastoral leadership. You will need to demonstrate credibility, emotional intelligence and the ability to influence at all levels, building effective relationships quickly with staff, students, families and external partners.

This is an exceptional opportunity to shape a key leadership portfolio within a forward-thinking Trust, and to make a lasting difference to the lives of young people and their communities.

Please see the attached Recruitment document for more information on this role.

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

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers, contractors and visitors to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure check by the Disclosure and Barring Service and other statutory checks.

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.

About BBG Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1046 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: BBG Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bbg-academy

BBG Academy is proud to be a part of The Rodillian Multi Academy Trust, which also includes The Featherstone Academy, Brayton Academy, Southway and the founding school, Rodillian Academy. BBG Academy is oversubscribed, has achieved significantly above average Progress 8 scores over the past three years and holds an Ofsted rating of good.

At the Rodillian Multi Academy Trust, we are committed to doing things differently – creating schools that students want to attend, and where colleagues want to work. We raise aspiration levels for staff, students and schools by encouraging creativity in the classroom, and by giving our staff freedom to experiment with their teaching, as part of our pioneering curriculum. All of this is guided by our Positive Discipline policy – a traditional approach to behaviour management.

The Academy instils in all students a “Growth Mindset” which is a belief that intelligence is far from fixed or inherited but an area where we can all improve if we work hard and learn from our mistakes. This mindset is placed at the heart of teaching and learning and curriculum design and enables our young people to see their experiences within school and beyond as a place to develop their abilities and nurtures them to see challenges as opportunities to flourish.
We have high expectations of our students and staff to deliver the highest standards. Teachers are encouraged to be imaginative and creative in the classroom in order to create motivational and inspiring lessons. The cornerstone of our Trust and our reason for its continued success and expansion is “Positive Discipline”, which enables us to reward good progress, behaviour and outstanding work.

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