Principal
Manor School
Northamptonshire
- £92,051 - £106,625 per year
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 January 2025
Job overview
Contract: September 2025 start (or sooner) Full-time, Permanent
Salary L26-32 (potential to rise to L29-35 with increase in 6th form numbers)
Are you an exceptional leader with a proven track record of turning schools around? Manor School is seeking an inspirational and strategic Principal to lead the school on its journey from "Inadequate" (Ofsted July 2024) to "Good" and beyond. This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to make a lasting impact in a community-focused school.
This advert is suitable for both internal and external candidates.
About the School
Manor School, part of the Nene Education Trust, serves a vibrant and diverse community of 1003 students aged 11–19. The school offers a broad curriculum and is committed to providing academic, vocational, and personal development opportunities. Despite recent challenges, the foundations for improvement have been laid, and we are looking for a dynamic leader to drive the transformation.
The Challenge
- Address inconsistencies in curriculum delivery and teaching quality to ensure every pupil achieves their full potential.
- Enhance support for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and improve their academic outcomes.
- Develop and implement robust systems for assessing and addressing gaps in students’ reading and learning.
- Build a culture of high expectations, encouraging positive behaviour and engagement across the school.
- Strengthen oversight of alternative provision to ensure it meets the needs of all students.
What We’re Looking For
- A highly experienced leader with a track record of driving significant and sustained school improvement.
- Expertise in curriculum development, teaching, and learning strategies to achieve exceptional educational outcomes.
- Strong skills in leading SEND provision and ensuring inclusivity and equity in education.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to engage and inspire staff, students, parents, and the wider community.
- A resilient, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to manage complex challenges effectively.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to lead a school poised for transformation within a supportive multi-academy trust.
- Professional development and collaboration opportunities within the Nene Education Trust and its partnership networks (including the Northamptonshire Teaching School Hub).
- A committed team of staff dedicated to making Manor School a place where every student thrives.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
Benefits
- Access to retail discounts and technology schemes.
- Access to Cycle to Work
- 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter.
- Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional
- An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged.
- Discounted gym membership
- Commitment to reducing email traffic and confine email replies to office hours – while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work
- Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes.
How to Apply
- If you have the vision, expertise, and determination to lead Manor School to success, we want to hear from you. To apply, please submit your complete application form and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role. For an informal discussion about the role, please contact joinourteam@neneeducationtrust.org.uk.
- Closing Date: 12pm Friday 17th January
- Interviews: Friday 24th January 2025
Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process.
Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks.
We look forward to your response.
The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.
*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated
Attached documents
About Manor School
- Manor School
- Mountbatten Way, Raunds, Wellingborough
- Northamptonshire
- NN9 6PA
- United Kingdom
Welcome to Manor School, a proud member of Nene Education Trust
Our mission is ‘Success for All’ - within our school and Trust communities, fulfilled through our determination for raising aspirations and developing character within a positive environment. We are passionate about inspiring our students to be confident, ambitious and successful individuals. We teach and promote our school values of Resilience, Empathy, Aspiration, Curiosity and Humanity. From these, students are able display the virtues of kindness, gratitude, self-discipline and personal responsibility. We have the highest expectations of our students and unashamedly uphold a warm professional culture. Within our community, students and staff are known, valued, developed and supported to be successful and happy. This ensures our students are polite, kind to each other and work hard. We support and emulate the strong values which are nurtured at home and are explicitly taught when joining Manor School.
At Manor, we believe all students, whatever their background, have a right to access the best that has been said and thought. This includes a variety of writers, from all parts of the world, and thinkers from all the ages. Our broadly traditional and academically rigorous curriculum ensures that students are knowledgeable enough about the world around them to transform it in the future.
We believe this knowledge is central to our students’ success and, therefore, supports their future dreams and ambitions. At Manor School students are taught that knowledge is powerful and ‘sticky’, meaning that once students have sufficient knowledge and an understanding of how to learn, they will be able to independently build on that knowledge. Making themselves the master of their fate, being ready to lead and participate as full citizens. We place open, meaningful continuous assessment at the heart of teaching. Students have regular quizzes in all subjects and develop learning routines to regularly self-quiz and build up a bank of knowledge in their long-term memory. This supports self-confidence and allows students to understand and make connections easily with new learning inside and outside the classroom.
We highly regard and encourage parental and family involvement and expect you to have high expectations of the school. We want parents and carers to play an active part in their child’s education at Manor School and to support our staff as they carry out their responsibilities. Manor School staff welcome dialogue and discussion. We are keen to create an environment where we are all working for the betterment of all our children. The goal is always that excellent behaviour and excellent learning should be second nature, not something that we work at constantly; it should simply be the way that we are. This is a state of mind that we want all our students to attain and sustain, not just at school, but for the rest of their lives. It is who we are.
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