Vice Principal
The Ferrers School, Rushden, Northamptonshire, NN10 8LF4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £73,819.00 - £81,441.00 Annually (Actual) Meridian Trust Leadership Band 5, Points 17-21
Vice Principal job summary
Vacancy for Vice Principal at The Ferrers School
We are seeking a dedicated, hardworking and passionate individual to join our senior leadership team as Vice Principal. This is an exciting opportunity for a leader who can inspire and motivate students and members of staff to achieve our mission. You will provide valuable support to the Principal by playing a key role in shaping the future of our school and demonstrating your continued commitment to student success.
As Vice Principal you will lead in the key areas that we believe are essential to developing high standards in the classroom as well as character, confidence and resilience. Applicants should be passionate about extending the boundaries of learning and be able to innovate and implement initiatives that go beyond traditional boundaries, fostering a culture of continuous learning both in and out of the classroom. Precise responsibilities will be matched to the individual we appoint and the needs of the team.
The Opportunity
- Support the SLT in establishing a vision for the future of the school and partnerships, demonstrating inspirational leader
- Play a lead role in the Academy improvement planning process, taking account of the agreed priorities of the Academy and how these link with national and local initiative.
- Promote a culture of teamwork, in which views of all members of the Academy are valued and considered.
- Work to a high standard in implementing agreed policies, priorities, and expectations, so to set a good example to other colleagues.
- Line manage middle leaders ensuring that their associate staff are professionally managed, effectively led and focused on high quality provision and outcomes.
- Set goals that stretch and challenge pupils of all backgrounds, abilities, and dispositions.
The ideal candidate
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Excellent classroom practitioner
- Excellent subject knowledge.
- Evidence of both curricular and pastoral responsibilities.
- High personal standards in terms of attendance, punctuality and organising workload.
About The Ferrers
The Ferrers is a school in which excellence and success are both desirable and achievable. We are committed to providing a high-quality educational experience in a school that puts learning and individual achievement at the centre of everything it does. The Ferrers is a school in which diversity is celebrated through an inclusive culture in which every student thrives from feeling safe, respected and valued for the positive contributions they make. It is a school that shares a common and unshakeable purpose to achieve excellence in all that we do.
Our mission is very simple and very important- to help all our students to be the very best they can be. We express this through our motto, “Aspire, Achieve, Acclaim”.
Our vision is to send our students out into the world as confident, motivated, aspirational and high achieving young people who will make a positive contribution to the local and wider community as responsible and ambitious citizens. Our students are our biggest asset and we are very proud of their many achievements and successes.
About Meridian Trust
Meridian Trust is a values-led organisation formed in 2011 that has risen to be one of the highest-performing academy trusts in the country. The Trust is founded on its commitment to a high-quality educational provision for all at the heart of local communities. Meridian currently operates primary, secondary and special schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.
Meridian Trust offers a wealth of fantastic benefits for teaching and support staff which are highlighted below but are not limited to -
- Apprenticeship and CPD opportunities which allow you to gain specialist knowledge in a role you are passionate about developing in
- Opportunity to jump start your career in teaching through our dedicated Initial Teacher Training Team (ITT)
- Support for mental health and wellbeing through our Employee Assistance Programme and other resources
- Cycle to work scheme
- Defined benefit local government or Teacher’s pension scheme
- Healthcare benefits including free eye test vouchers and flu vaccinations
- Free on-site parking
- Discounts on a wide range of benefits from everyday essentials to holidays
To explore our full range of benefits, please visit https://www.meridiantrust.co.uk/jobs-and-training/benefits/.
For more information about the role please download the Applicant Information Pack below.
Closing date for applications: Monday 10th March 2025
Interviews will be held on: Friday 21st March 2025
Meridian Trust reserves the right to close the applications early in the event that a suitable candidate is sourced. Applications will be reviewed as received so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
The post holder will have a shared responsibility for the safeguarding of all children and young people. The post holder also has an implicit duty to promote the welfare of all children and young people.
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 The Ferrers School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 928 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Ferrers School website
The Ferrers School is a popular, oversubscribed school and we are looking to recruit staff who can work with us to strive for excellence.
We care passionately about our staff, their well-being and their professional development and this is reflected in the fact that we are an enthusiastic team, committed to working collaboratively and sharing the very best practice. We are seeking ambitious candidates who are keen to develop further and as such are committed to providing excellent CPD for the development of staff. We are striving for the very best for our students and we are focussed on and passionate about learning.
The Ferrers School is part of the successful Meridian Trust, a group of primary, secondary and special schools. Many of the schools in the trust are growing and there is a need to develop capacity, expertise and excellence in our staff body. We are currently working very closely with our colleagues at Sharnbrook Academy and as a school we look forward to playing a key role in the development of Meridian Trust’s free school due to open in Weldon, Corby in 2023.
The Ferrers, like the Meridian Trust, is also driven by our ability to adapt to the changing educational landscape led by determined staff who bring our community alive with their enthusiastic personalities, unshakeable work ethic and their commitment to delivering exceptional learning experiences for our children. What makes The Ferrers School, and the Trust, different is that we know how to nurture and bring out the very best in our talented staff.
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