About This Role
Northampton Academy is a beacon of academic excellence in East Northampton. It is a highly popular, co-educational, non-selective, 11-18 academy with 1,750 students. The school has a well-deserved reputation for strong academic progress and a nationally recognised character programme, empowering students to excel in the classroom and beyond. The school’s co-curricular offering is truly exceptional, leading the way in showcasing the wealth of opportunities provided for students to develop an Education with Character.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a leader with the vision to lead the school into its next chapter as an extraordinary school with a national reputation for high achievement. The new Principal will bring a track record of excellence in educational practice, they will have the integrity, tenacity and compassion to lead this exceptional school community.
United Learning is a big group of schools – with over 75,000 pupils and more than 10,000 staff – so we have the capacity to support you educationally and operationally. At the same time, we are values led and base all that we do on good relationships, so you will be joining a big family. Reporting directly to the Regional Director, you will be supported both personally and professionally, benefitting from the strength of a national group who will support your development and that of your staff and school.
We are committed to fairness, diversity and inclusion. We are currently working hard to improve representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders at headship level and to raise our proportion of women leaders to match their representation in our wider workforce. Whoever you are, if you have a strong track record of improving young people’s education and a drive to do more, we very much look forward to hearing from you.
If you wish to discover more about this exciting opportunity, need any further information or would like to have an informal discussion please contact our Head of Leadership Recruitment, Geoff Morris on geoff.morris@unitedlearning.org.uk