Deputy Headteacher Quality of Education

Responsible to: Headteacher

Salary: CST payscale L18 - L22 (£75,675 - £83,464)

Start date: 1st September 2025

Trinity Academy is a highly oversubscribed free school that opened in 2019.  We are a values based community that focuses on the learning of all students and staff, that cares deeply for our young people and each other and that is committed to co-curricular enrichment. Our stated goal is to be a +1 school for progress and as such, we are looking for an exceptional leader and teacher to join us in our mission.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an outstanding and highly committed leadership team that has established a very successful new school but has a vision beyond this - to create something that is genuinely world class.   

Why choose Trinity Academy?

Trinity is a ‘Good’ school with ‘Outstanding’ leadership and management and ‘Outstanding‘ Personal Development’ (Ofsted Jan 2024)

• “This is an ambitious school that wants the very best for its pupils, both academically and pastorally”.
• “The school’s curriculum is highly ambitious for all pupils”
• “Lessons are not disrupted by poor behaviour.  The school is calm and orderly because pupils understand the rules and routines in place.”

The progress of our students is significantly above the national average (P8 +0.53).

We believe in our leaders - we do not micro manage.

We develop our people (both former Deputy Heads have gone on to their first headships from Trinity).

Exceptionally visible and supportive senior leadership team.

Hardworking staff and students who want to do well.

Further Information

School visits or virtual meetings with members of the senior leadership team are welcome.  Please contact enquiries@trinityacademybristol.org or call the school on 0117 4509379 to arrange. 

Please visit our website (https://www.trinityacademybristol.org/) for more information about us and our mission.

Please note that we will only consider applications through iTrent and will not consider CVs so please ensure that your supporting statement on the application meets the requirements of the person specification.  We encourage you to be succinct and to restrict your supporting statement to no more than four pages in length. 

Closing date: 19th January 2025

Interviews: 28th and 29th January 2025

Due to the high levels of applications for roles at Trinity, we are unable to register receipt of applications. Candidates will be contacted if they are successfully shortlisted for an interview. If you have not heard from us by the interview date, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We reserve the right to appoint before the deadline for an exceptional candidate.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.  All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.  All posts at Trinity Academy are subject to pre-employment checks including, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

The school may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include: 

• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.  The  school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.  

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.  

We are a life-friendly school and support our employees in achieving a balance in life and meeting their commitments beyond school.

For further information about our Recruitment and Safeguarding procedures, please refer to CST Recruitment, Selection and Disclosure Policy and CST Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.