Assistant Headteacher

Responsible to: Headteacher/Deputy Headteacher

Salary: CST pay scale L12 - L16 (£61,882 - £68,400)

Start date: 1st January 2024

Trinity Academy is a highly oversubscribed free school that opened in 2019. We are a values based community that: 

• focuses on the learning of all students and staff (our ‘Head’)
• cares deeply for our young people and one another (our ‘Heart’)
• is committed to co-curricular enrichment (our ‘Soul’).

Our stated goal is to be a +1 school for progress and as such, we are looking for a highly motivated, professional and well qualified leader and to join us in realising our mission.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join an outstanding and highly committed leadership team that is establishing our new school in its fifth year of being open. The role encompasses Safeguarding (you will be the named DSL), leading on the Attendance Strategy and being the champion for our disadvantaged students. This is a high impact role and as such, we are looking for a dynamic, visionary leader.

We are committed to your professional development. As a growing school there is considerable opportunity for career development both within the Academy and across the Cathedral Schools Trust. 

If you would like to find out more about the school, please visit the website at: www.trinityacademybristol.org.

For further details of the role, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Please note that we will only consider applications through TES/eTeach and will not consider CVs so do ensure that your supporting statement on the application meets the requirements of the person specification. We encourage you to be succinct and to restrict your supporting statement to no more than four pages in length.

Closing date: 3rd October 2023

Shortlisting 4th October 2023

Interview: 12th and 13th October

Due to the high levels of applications for roles at Trinity, we are unable to register receipt of applications. Candidates will be contacted if they are successfully shortlisted for an interview. If you have not heard from us by the interview date, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We reserve the right to appoint before the deadline for an exceptional candidate.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.  All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.  All posts at Trinity Academy are subject to pre-employment checks including, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

The school may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media accounts, as part of the interview process.

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include: 

• Ability to ensure and deliver effective safeguarding
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.  The  school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.  

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.  

We are a life-friendly school and support our employees in achieving a balance in life and meeting their commitments beyond school.

For further information about our Recruitment and Safeguarding procedures, please refer to CST Recruitment, Selection and Disclosure Policy and CST Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.