Vice Principal
Samuel Whitbread Academy, Shefford, Bedfordshire, SG17 5QS4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April / September 2025
Closing date
19 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Pay Scale Points 23 to 27
Vice Principal job summary
VICE PRINCIPAL
JOB TITLE: Vice Principal
BASED AT: Samuel Whitbread Academy
SALARY/GRADE RANGE: Leadership Pay Scale points 23 - 27
RESPONSIBLE TO: Academy Principal
RESPONSIBLE FOR: Safeguarding, Pastoral Support & Personal Development
The Bedfordshire Schools Trust (BEST) is a multi-academy trust providing exceptional education across our community of 11 schools and five nurseries. Since forming in 2016, we have grown significantly into one of the largest single employers in Central Bedfordshire. We now educate more than 5,000 children across the area, from nursery age to advanced level study. It is our aim to grow the BEST in everyone, and everything we do is driven by our values, but our aims can only be achieved if we recruit, retain and develop the highest quality workforce – and we want those we employ to be valued in the workplace. The first eight years of BEST has been a real success story – and we are looking forward to an exciting future, too.
Samuel Whitbread Academy are looking for a Vice Principal who has a highly robust and detailed understanding of all aspects of safeguarding, pastoral support and personal development in a secondary school context. You will have demonstrated impact with significant measurable improvement in your current setting. You will be able to easily transfer this experience to our setting and align it to our ethos.
The successful candidate will be an exceptional leader and excellent communicator, who already has some experience of leadership at a whole-school level. You will be able to demonstrate excellence in your classroom practice and will evidence significant investment in your own professional development.
As Vice Principal, you will play a pivotal role in the strategic leadership and management of the Academy. Working closely with the Principal, you will help drive our mission to provide outstanding education and foster a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement.
All senior leaders within our Academy are passionate about our ethos and committed to rigorously promoting and upholding the vision of BEST and living out our core values.
We would like the successful applicant to start in April 2025, however we are willing to consider a September start date for the right candidate.
This role will involve working closely with the students at Samuel Whitbread Academy and you will be engaging in regulated activity with children.
CLOSING DATE: Midnight, Sunday 19th January 2025
INTERVIEW DATE: w/c Monday 20th January 2025
Information about Samuel Whitbread Academy can be found on the school website https://www.samuelwhitbread.org.uk/
Applications may be made online via the MyNewTerm website, If you would prefer a Word Application Form, one may be obtained by directly emailing Samuel Whitbread Academy via the contact details provided below.
We are committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children's welfare and offers of employment are subject to DBS clearance and two satisfactory references.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
Strictly no agencies.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Samuel Whitbread Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1670 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Samuel Whitbread Academy website (opens in new tab)
Samuel Whitbread Academy
We offer an exceptional academic and extracurricular experience at Samuel Whitbread Academy in an outstanding learning environment where students are expected to work hard and achieve their best.
In our last Ofsted inspection, we were judged as ‘Good’ with many outstanding features and over the next three years we have set ourselves the target of being Outstanding!
Our GCSE results are amongst the best in the Local Authority. We offer a well-balanced curriculum with plenty of choice to prepare our students for the next stage in their lives. Most of our students continue on to the Sixth Form, which is one of the largest and highest performing in the area - providing students with a huge range of courses designed to match the expectations of universities and employers.
Our pastoral care is exceptional and we have dedicated pastoral support teams for each Year Group. The Academy is also broken down into five houses, named after people who have made a distinctive contribution to our community. These provide the framework for the multitude of different competitions, celebrations and charity events that bring our school community together during the year.
Extra-curricular opportunity is a vital part of our ethos and we expect all of our students to get involved in at least one club or activity. There are a huge number of opportunities ranging from highly competitive sports teams to spectacular drama and musical performances.
We enjoy showing visitors around the school so please take the opportunity to come and see us during the school day, so you can see Samuel Whitbread Academy in action and we can answer any questions you may have.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Nick Martin, Principal.
Shefford, Bedfordshire
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