Trust School Improvement Lead Assistant Principal / Vice Principal

Central Region Schools Trust (CRST) is seeking to appoint a School Improvement Lead Assistant Principal or Vice Principal from January or April 2025. The pay range for our Assistant Principals is L11-15 and Vice Principals L17-21 but the salary is negotiable and will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s skills and experience.

We are very excited to offer this opportunity to enhance the leadership and provision across the Trust and play a key role in ensuring that every pupil achieves outstanding outcomes. This position offers an exciting opportunity for a proven and committed teacher and leader to work with the Trust’s Education and Standards Team.

We are looking for candidates who have had a highly successful track record in leading a large secondary department (preferably a core department or across a large faculty) with proven strong outcomes under their subject leadership. In the first instance the remit will be to support KS3 core subject development and lead on/develop a Trust Reading Strategy with a focus on secondary reading. The successful candidate will need experience of primary and secondary EBACC curriculums and will be expected to travel regularly to the schools in the Trust to meet the requirements of the role.

As a Trust Assistant Principal or Vice Principal, the successful candidate will not have a home school but will travel across all schools working with key areas and people. However, if the need arises this agility enables us to place the successful candidate into a school if capacity needs emerge.

We expect the postholder to lead all aspects of collaboration in curriculum development within KS3 and assessment and to drive the reading strategy as well as other school improvement focuses which are to be agreed depending on the successful candidate’s areas of expertise. Experience of leading cross school and/or trust -wide reviews across subjects would also be desirable.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Further information is available on the Trust’s website (Vacancies – Central Region Schools Trust).

Applications should be submitted by 10.00am on Thursday 17th October. Interviews will take place during the week beginning Monday 21st October. However, early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview earlier for this post should suitable candidates apply.