Vice Principal - School Improvement
Archway Learning Trust
Nottingham
- Salary:
- £76,722 - £84,699 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 30 April 2026
Job overview
The role of Vice Principal - School Improvement at Archway Learning Trust is a pivotal and rewarding opportunity for an experienced senior leader who is committed to securing exceptional, inclusive education across all our academies. As our Trust continues to grow and strengthen, this role has never been more crucial in ensuring that our strategy is enacted consistently, effectively, and with meaningful impact for pupils.
At Archway, our mission is clear: to ensure excellence for every child through strong leadership, aligned systems and a culture rooted in integrity, collaboration and disciplined, continuous improvement. You will play a vital part in ensuring that every school across our Trust benefits from high-quality practice, strong leadership, and an unrelenting focus on inclusion and outcomes.
About You
First and foremost, you are an experienced and influential leader, with exceptional educational knowledge and the leadership ability to expertly navigate today’s educational landscape. You hold a deep understanding of the responsibilities, accountabilities and statutory duties intrinsic to this role, and you bring clarity, integrity and calmness to complex and fast-moving environments.
You thrive in innovative settings, building highly effective relationships and demonstrating sensitivity to the needs of a range of stakeholders. You are a strong strategic thinker, yet someone who will confidently roll up their sleeves and engage with day-to-day operational challenges. You seek continual improvement - for yourself, for others, and for the systems within which you work - to ensure the organisation remains efficient, effective and sustainable.
You are deeply passionate about equity of opportunity and about leading inclusive practice for all - children and adults alike. At your core is a strong moral purpose: to secure the very best daily deal for every child and every community we serve.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly credible, agile leader with a proven track record of securing school improvement - someone who can apply their judgement and expertise confidently across all aspects of school improvement, from curriculum to pedagogy, behaviour to inclusion, assessment to leadership.
The Vice Principal - School Improvement provides high-impact instructional leadership, advising, supporting and challenging senior leaders to refine practice and embed sustainable, high-quality provision across the Trust. You will bring clarity, modelling and professional expertise wherever it is needed, strengthening systems, practice and leadership capacity across a range of contexts.
As a Vice Principal - School Improvement, you will join a collaborative and forward-thinking Central Education Team, where evidence-informed practice, professional trust and disciplined improvement guide our work.
As Vice Principal - School Improvement, you will:
Contribute to Trust-wide professional learning
Lead cross-school improvement priorities
Support Principals and senior leaders to secure coherence between curriculum intent, pedagogy, behaviour culture, inclusion and outcomes
Work closely with Trust Leaders for School Improvement and the Director of Secondary to translate strategy into meaningful, lasting impact
Who This Role Is For
This is a role for someone who thrives on influencing practice at scale - bringing thoughtful, values-driven leadership to a diverse and fast-moving educational landscape. If you are motivated by the opportunity to shape classroom practice, strengthen leadership, improve pupil outcomes and champion equity across a family of schools, this role offers you the chance to make a profound difference.
We warmly encourage you to get in touch for an informal, confidential conversation about the role and what it might mean for the next stage of your leadership journey.
We look forward to hearing how your experience, expertise and values align with our mission and the next phase of our improvement work.
For more information about Archway Learning Trust and the vacancy, please visit https://www.archwaytrust.co.uk/vacancies/
Closing date: 9am on Thurday 30 April 2026.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.
About Archway Learning Trust
- Archway Learning Trust
- Aspley Lane, Aspley, Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- NG8 5GY
- United Kingdom
Archway Learning Trust, previously Bluecoat Academies Trust, was formed in April 2014 as a result of the very long and successful history of Bluecoat Academy. We are based in the heart of the city of Nottingham, providing high quality learning experiences for students from the ages of 3 – 18.
With the success of Bluecoat Primary and the development of our primary offer, Archway has been asked to support and work in partnership with a number of primaries across the region. This, along with more primaries joining the Trust, has enabled us to create an exceptional primary Senior Leadership Team to support Leaders in our schools.
Our Trust is made up of both Church of England academies and schools of no designated religious character. This unique blend has created a distinctive family of schools that are bound together through a passionate belief in the transformational power of education for every child.
Click here to learn more about our family of schools.
Our aim as a Trust is to shine a spotlight nationally and internationally on our inclusive ethos so that more schools and academies can be encouraged to take up our approach to inclusive, enriching, knowledge based teaching, preparing young people for lifelong learning based firmly on our Christian principles. All academies retain a high level of autonomy and individual character – understanding their own local context to best serve their community. In turn, it is our responsibility centrally to provide high quality support services, so that leaders at a local level can focus their efforts on shaping teaching and learning opportunities that are of the highest quality and continually improving.
It is our people that make our Trust – and we invest heavily into our colleagues to ensure they feel recognised, supported and developed. CPD and career development play a key role and the growth of our Trust is a truly exciting time for prospective candidates who are looking to further their careers in a dynamic learning community that has opportunity at every point to share and learn from each other in order to become the best that we can be.
It is our aspiration to be recognised as an employer of choice and to support this we work hard to develop our “Archway People Offer” and as part of this we have shaped an employee benefit package for colleagues including discounted travel, shopping and gym memberships. We also offer access to health and medical services and a cycle to work scheme. To hear directly from our colleagues about what makes Archway Learning Trust different click here.
We are proud of our diverse student population and passionate to create a staff team reflective of this diversity. We actively welcome applications from all backgrounds and you can be assured of a warm welcome at Archway.
To find out more about why you should work at Archway and the benefits we offer, please follow the links:
Join Us - Archway Learning Trust (archwaytrust.co.uk)
Archway Benefits - Archway Learning Trust (archwaytrust.co.uk)
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