13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    15 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    1 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time: Full-Time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£63,815 - £72,162

Pay scale

L11 - L16

What skills and experience we're looking for

Start Date September 2025

This is a new and unique opportunity for an experienced leader to play a key role at North Cornwall Academy. You will play an important part in ensuring the best possible quality of education for our pupils. You will use your wealth of knowledge and expertise in teaching and learning to work collaboratively with teachers to help develop the team of exemplary classroom practitioners.

Main Purpose

  • Lead the curriculum and teaching and learning across the academy ensuring high quality and progress for all
  • To lead, motivate and support all staff in raising the outcomes for all students and groups of students so that the proportion of students making expected and better than expected levels of progress continues to rise rapidly. To engage in other leadership roles as reasonably required by the Principal.

For full job description and person specification please see below.

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and we may carry out an online check.

For any general questions or to arrange a conversation to discuss the role please email us at recruitment@waveedu.org

What the school offers its staff

Health & Wellbeing

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

Further details about the role

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

  • Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
  • Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
  • Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
  • We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
  • Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
  • Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

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

VP - Quality of Education North Cornwall.pdf - 218 KB (opens in new tab)

About North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy

School type
Academy, ages 5 to 16
School size
37 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
School website
North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy website
Email address
recruitment@waveedu.org
See more jobs
teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/north-cornwall-alternative-provision-academy

North Cornwall Academy is located in Bodmin. We work closely with all of the secondary and primary schools within our partnership to ensure the needs of those most vulnerable pupils are met. Our curriculum is tailored to meet the needs of our pupils and staff work extremely hard to ensure pupils are given every opportunity to succeed and aspire. We work closely with a diverse range of outside agencies both statutory and voluntary so that our young people can access the support and guidance they need. The staff are very hardworking and creative and always go the extra mile with the young people on roll.

Arranging a visit to North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@waveedu.org.

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