Principal

6 months ago

Northampton, United Kingdom United Learning Full time
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Principal

Principal

Northampton Academy30/04/2024

Northampton Academy is a transformational comprehensive and non-selective school, serving a diverse community. Our values, which underpin every decision we take, are RESPECT, DETERMINATION, AMBITION, TOLERANCE, and INTEGRITY. We have a comprehensive student character-building programme, which has been nationally recognised through the Character Quality Mark.We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. United Learning is a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. United Learning schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. The subject specialists, Group-wide intranet, own curriculum, and online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’. We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit, and we are open to discussing flexible working options. United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All positions are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online check. Here at United Learning, we are committed to ensuring our employees feel valued and appreciated. Because we are a group, we can reward you better than any school could alone, and this includes your employee benefits. is some information about the benefits available to United Learning.

Job details

Job details

SalaryCompetitive salary plus benefits hours37.5BasisFull TimeRegionNorthamptonJob category/typeSLTDate posted02/04/2024Job referenceREQ001048Attachments

Job description

Job description

Northampton Academy is a beacon of academic excellence in the Eastern Districts of Northampton. It is a highly popular, co-educational, non-selective, 11-18 academy with 1,700 pupils. The school has a well-deserved reputation for strong academic progress and nationally recognised character programme, empowering pupils 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.


Northampton Academy is part of United Learning. We are a big group of schools – with over 60,000 pupils and more than 9,000 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 to support your development and that of your staff and school.


We are committed to fairness, diversity and are currently working hard to improve the 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.

We fully recommend that you take the opportunity to make an informal visit prior to making your application to see the school for yourself. If you would like to arrange a visit or set up a confidential conversation please contact the Regional Director for the school, Dino Di Salvo at

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