Vice Principal (Deputy Headteacher)

Hawes Side Academy, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 3LN

18 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  11 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  9 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Between £63,815 and £72,162

What skills and experience we're looking for

As a valuable member of our community we are looking for someone who:

- Is a strong, inspirational leader and an excellent primary practitioner.

- Is a leader with the passion, drive and commitment to continue to build on our successes and embrace future challenges.

- Relishes in the opportunity to develop themselves and others.

In the words of our pupils, someone who:‘is kind’, ‘helps us learn new things’, ‘cares for us’, ‘is patient’, ‘smiles’, ‘is fair’, ‘helps us stay safe’, ‘listens’, ‘enjoys playing’, ‘is fun’.

At Hawes Side Academy, we value our community and are committed to working closely with everyone in it to ensure we meet every child’s individual needs – we hope that you are the one to join us.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer:

• A clear vision rooted in lived out values to provide a framework for purposeful decisions and actions
• The opportunity to shape the next steps of your professional development through values-led leadership.
• The opportunity to be instrumental in whole school improvement through strategic leadership.
• Quality professional development.
• The opportunity to join a forward-thinking school that works tirelessly to support the outcomes of our children, families, and staff to make a positive difference to the community we serve.
• A school that is committed to the wellbeing, work life balance and professional development of all staff.

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

At Hawes Side Academy we are committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We will seek to recruit candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and will apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that we select the right people to work with us.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@hawes-side.co.uk

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

HSA Vice Principal Advert Jan 26 FINAL.pdf - 385 KB (opens in new tab)

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About Hawes Side Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 412 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hawes Side Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@hawes-side.co.uk
• Phone number: 01253 402541
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hawes-side-academy

On behalf of all the children, staff and Trustees, I would like to warmly welcome you to the Hawes Side Academy.

Hawes Side Academy is a three-form entry primary academy situated in the south shore area of Blackpool. ‘Hawes Side Primary School’ was originally opened on the 12th January 1937 converting to an academy in September 2012. In 2015 we were lucky enough to benefit from the Priority Building Schools Programme and our current building was opened in November 2016.

We are proud that we have served our local area through the generations. Over the last 80 years Hawes Side has become an integral part of the local community and has earned a reputation for providing an excellent and well-rounded education for all children.

As an academy, we value our partnerships with other schools and academies and are passionate about raising standards in order to give our pupils the best possible start to their education and life beyond school.

We also value our partnership between home and school and are continually developing ways to enable and enhance this. We regard communication with our parents as a key priority; engaging them in every aspect of their child’s education.

At Hawes Side Academy we want the very best for all our pupils. We aim to ensure this through the careful planning of an innovative, relevant and connected curriculum with a global dimension that meets the needs of all the children. Pupil voice and close links with parents, families and the wider community help us to provide stimulating and creative learning experiences that put the children at the very heart of the learning process.

As a forward-thinking academy, we embrace new challenges and partnerships to provide the best of opportunities for our children.

Our strong partnerships, and our commitment to the professional development of staff, ensure teaching, learning and assessment are of the highest quality. Through all of the above we endeavour to live out our motto: ‘Community, Learning and Creativity in Harmony’

Arranging a visit to Hawes Side Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@hawes-side.co.uk.

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