ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Top Benefits
About the role
Required to start: January or Easter 2026 John Smeaton Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Assistant Principal to join the current Senior Leadership Team. This is a great leadership opportunity and is ideal for those seeking career progression or a current Leader looking to develop a long-term career within a successful Multi-Academy Trusts.
The successful candidate will be an effective classroom practitioner who will lead with to maintain and build upon the existing outstanding practice within the Academy, achieving the best possible outcomes for all pupils. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and dynamic individual, who will help to shape the future of the Academy.
Potential Applicants Should Be
- A highly effective Teacher.
- A motivational and inspirational leader with high expectations of all staff.
- Confident, inspirational and able to communicate and deliver a clear vision for the Academy.
- Committed to developing our children to reach their full potential regardless of background.
- Approachable and willing to work with staff across the Trust and Governors to implement strategies to move the school forward.
What We Offer You As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
About Us On 1 September 2021 John Smeaton Academy joined The GORSE Academies Trust, an organisation renowned for excellence in education. The trust has a nationally recognised track record of transforming inadequate schools and making them great again, or for the first time in their history. Consequently, this role represents an incredibly exciting opportunity for any candidate who is eager to be a part of an organisation that seeks to secure the very highest educational standard for every student. We are determined to ensure students at John Smeaton Academy are inspired to ‘Secure the Gift of Choice’ and we expect any successful candidate to be passionate and tenacious in their quest for all round academic and pastoral excellence. As part of our exceptional work to date, Ofsted recognised that our academy is ‘Good’ in all areas in April/May 2024. A unique opportunity to be part of an academy that is a Beacon for its community! If you would like to know more about our academy, please visit our website at John Smeaton Academy.
How To Apply If you are as excited about this role as we are, you can download the Job Description, Person Specification, and Application Form from this page, request them by email at enquiries@johnsmeatonacademy.org.uk or call us on 0113 8313900.
Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
About The GORSE Academies Trust
The GORSE Academies Trust has an increasingly well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.
Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within The GORSE Academies Trust. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Top Benefits
About the role
Required to start: January or Easter 2026 John Smeaton Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Assistant Principal to join the current Senior Leadership Team. This is a great leadership opportunity and is ideal for those seeking career progression or a current Leader looking to develop a long-term career within a successful Multi-Academy Trusts.
The successful candidate will be an effective classroom practitioner who will lead with to maintain and build upon the existing outstanding practice within the Academy, achieving the best possible outcomes for all pupils. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and dynamic individual, who will help to shape the future of the Academy.
Potential Applicants Should Be
- A highly effective Teacher.
- A motivational and inspirational leader with high expectations of all staff.
- Confident, inspirational and able to communicate and deliver a clear vision for the Academy.
- Committed to developing our children to reach their full potential regardless of background.
- Approachable and willing to work with staff across the Trust and Governors to implement strategies to move the school forward.
What We Offer You As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
About Us On 1 September 2021 John Smeaton Academy joined The GORSE Academies Trust, an organisation renowned for excellence in education. The trust has a nationally recognised track record of transforming inadequate schools and making them great again, or for the first time in their history. Consequently, this role represents an incredibly exciting opportunity for any candidate who is eager to be a part of an organisation that seeks to secure the very highest educational standard for every student. We are determined to ensure students at John Smeaton Academy are inspired to ‘Secure the Gift of Choice’ and we expect any successful candidate to be passionate and tenacious in their quest for all round academic and pastoral excellence. As part of our exceptional work to date, Ofsted recognised that our academy is ‘Good’ in all areas in April/May 2024. A unique opportunity to be part of an academy that is a Beacon for its community! If you would like to know more about our academy, please visit our website at John Smeaton Academy.
How To Apply If you are as excited about this role as we are, you can download the Job Description, Person Specification, and Application Form from this page, request them by email at enquiries@johnsmeatonacademy.org.uk or call us on 0113 8313900.
Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
About The GORSE Academies Trust
The GORSE Academies Trust has an increasingly well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.
Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within The GORSE Academies Trust. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.