Vice Principal - Behaviour and Attitudes
Abbeyfield School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 8BU5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
8 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18 - L22
What skills and experience we're looking for
About You:
At Abbeyfield School, leadership means more than just guiding students—it’s about shaping their journey toward excellence in behaviour, attitude, and personal growth. Your expertise and enthusiasm will be the driving force behind their development, offering support and inspiration that empowers them to reach their full potential. As a champion of the school’s values and those of the Creative Education Trust, you’ll help foster a culture built on integrity, respect, and aspiration, ensuring these principles shine through in every aspect of school life.
Our ideal candidate will:
- Lead with a commitment to inclusion and accessibility, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive in a supportive environment.
- Foster a collaborative culture, working closely with colleagues to promote teamwork and shared responsibility for student success.
- Exemplify resilience, adaptability, and motivation, maintaining a proactive and solution-focused approach to challenges.
- Build strong, trusting relationships with students and staff, cultivating an inclusive and empowering school community.
Requirements:
To apply, you must hold:
- Qualified teacher status.
- Good honours degree level.
- Substantive senior leadership experience.
What the school offers its staff
About Our School:
At Abbeyfield School, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, aspirational, happy, and hard-working community. We strive to provide the best education, empowering pupils to become young adults with the best qualifications possible. Our mission is to educate, keep pupils safe, and promote their personal development. Pupils are expected to attend school daily, look smart, be ready to learn, and follow our routines: Right Place – Right Time – All the Time.
About The Leadership team:
The Leadership team at Abbeyfield School is committed to cultivating a supportive and inclusive learning environment where every student can flourish. Through collaboration, tailored support, and high-quality professional development, we proactively remove barriers to learning, inspire meaningful engagement, and foster a culture of respect and achievement.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust inspires and enables young people to build successful lives on foundations of learning, resilience and employability. We believe that a rewarding educational experience and the highest possible qualifications are the best way to ensure social mobility for young people.
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14,500 children and young people.
We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development:
CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.
Essential Information:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.
All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.
The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Abbeyfield School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1376 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Abbeyfield School website
- Email address
- rosie.smithobrien@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk
We are a popular and oversubscribed mixed secondary school, catering for children between the ages of 11 and 18 years located in Northampton.
The school boasts outstanding facilities in a modern well-kept stimulating environment.
Arranging a visit to Abbeyfield School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rosie.smithobrien@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk.
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