Vice Principal
Houlton School, RUGBY, Warwickshire, CV23 1ED19 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
31 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L17-21 (£73,819 - £81,441 per year)
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is a brand-new post that will bring the Senior Leadership Team of our growing academy to a total of six members: the Principal; two Vice Principals; and three Assistant Principals. There is also an Extended Leadership Team, made up of the Core Subject Heads of Faculty and our SENDCo.
So, who are we looking for?
First and foremost, you are a dynamic, hands-on, strategic leader who can skilfully lead across any area of the academy’s continuing development and day-to-day-operations. You are likely to have the ambition to lead your own school in the future, and as such, be keen to gain experience in all areas of the academy leadership in the coming years. Therefore, the specific portfolio for this post will be determined once we have secured the very best candidate who will have transferrable, versatile skills.
What the school offers its staff
Why work for Houlton?
- A caring school on a 20 acre, green-field campus that is small enough to know every pupil’s name and story, yet large enough to offer an exciting breadth of curriculum, including our brand new Sixth Form, which launches in September 2026.
- You’ll be working within a community of passionate, committed colleagues who genuinely support each other.
- A staff well-being team implements various strategies to boost staff engagement including various activities, events, conferences, and many other staff benefits.
- Excellent opportunities to develop and grow in the successful and expanding Transforming Lives Educational Trust, a growing Multi-academy Trust based within the local community.
Further details about the role
What next?
We want to hear from you if you are as excited as we are about this fresh opportunity within our successful and growing Trust. In return, we can offer the right candidate the chance to work within our innovative and forward-thinking Trust as well as offering excellent professional development and progression.
We encourage you to consider the information in the attached pack carefully and use it to picture yourself within the role at Houlton. Should you wish to discuss any element of the pack in more detail, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to receiving your application.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Transforming Lives Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff, volunteers, contractors, parents and pupils to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to careers@tlet.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Houlton School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 541 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Houlton School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- careers@tlet.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01788593900
Houlton School is an 11-18 Free School Academy with World Class Quality Mark status. It is part of the Transforming Lives Educational Trust, based in Rugby. It opened to its founding cohort of Year 7 pupils in September 2021 and will grow, one cohort at a time until there are pupils across ages 11-18.
We are fortunate to occupy a brand new, £39 campus-style academy, which includes the Grade II listed former Rugby Radio Station buildings, as well as three new purpose-built, specialist teaching blocks, all set within a 20 acre campus on the Eastern border of Warwickshire.
This is an exciting time to join the Houlton family. Already accredited as a 'World Class School', you could join us as one of the very first cohorts of both staff and pupils. Check out our campus here: https://youtu.be/zLjJVdqJ3eI
Arranging a visit to Houlton School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email careers@tlet.org.uk.
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