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Principal

The Rodillian Academy

Wakefield

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2025
Apply by:
3 March 2025

Job overview

As a Principal working as part of Resilience Multi Academy Trust, you will be part of the Trust Executive Team and will work in a collaborative way with your colleagues, offering support and bringing your experience and ideas - genuinely working together to improve our schools. As a trust, we work in a progressive, autonomous and agile way to drive continually improving standards. We believe this is a genuinely unique offer in a Principalship and provides incredible opportunities for your own leadership and development.

If you are looking for a leadership role, collaborating with a successful team that puts young people first, we are confident that this is an opportunity you have been waiting for.

As Principal at Rodillian Academy you will hold and articulate clear personal values and moral purpose, focused on providing the best possible education for the students you serve. You will embody the Nolan Principles and lead by example - with integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity - drawing on your scholarship, expertise and skills, and that of those around you.

You will be enthusiastic and inspiring and provide energy to drive Rodillian Academy in pursuit of excellence and equity with a relentless focus on improving teaching and learning.

You will ensure the financial strength of Rodillian Academy is maintained and enhanced, allowing RMAT to achieve its strategic aims and objectives by championing its people moving forward the employer of choice agenda against the national difficulties in recruitment and retention.

To be successful in this post, you will need to demonstrate an ability to provide strategic leadership recognising a background of such in a school or trust. You will need to evidence your personal impact and credibility.

 

To discuss this role in more depth, please contact the HR Team in the first instance to

facilitate your discussion. Please email recruitment@rmat.uk

You should ensure that you provide a supporting statement which outlines your experience in relation to the job description and person specification.

 

Completed applications must be returned to: recruitment@rmat.uk

Closing date for applications: Monday 3 March 2025 at 9.00 a.m.

Interviews: Thursday 27 and Friday 28 March 2025

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Please note dates are indicative and subject to change. All applications will be acknowledged.


Resilience Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff, volunteers, visitors and contractors to share this commitment. Shortlisted applicants will undergo relevant checks in line with statutory guidance and all appointees will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure check by the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

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About The Rodillian Academy

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+44 1924 872 252

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The Rodillian Academy is where our Trust's journey began. 

Rodillian Academy serves the communities of Rothwell, Woodlesford, Oulton and other areas of South Leeds including, Middleton, Belle Isle and Hunslet. It is an 11-18 school with an expanding post 16 provision which includes A-Levels and Level 3 vocational qualifications. 

Housed in a £27 million building which opened in 2008 the academy is equipped with state-of-the-art SMART digital screens in every classroom, one of the first schools in the country to embrace such technologies. The other facilities include a dance studio, two gyms, recording studio, lecture theatre and top quality outdoor sports areas. We are extremely proud of our sporting excellence and have developed elite Rugby Union and Netball Academies who have competed on a national level regularly beating many of the top private schools in both disciplines. We take 10% of our year 7 entry based on sporting aptitude. 

Behaviour in the academy is exceptional and something of which we are very proud. Our judgement was supported by Ofsted in 2012 and again in 2016 where we gained an ‘Outstanding’ for ‘Personal development, behaviour and welfare’. We do not tolerate bullying, defiance or rudeness to staff and this has made for a harmonious and safe learning environment for our young people and a supportive environment for staff, where they can concentrate their efforts on teaching and their own continuing professional development.

Rodillian is a happy academy where students and staff show respect, consideration, and kindness.

Interim Principal

Joe Birkbeck

www.rodillianacademy.co.uk

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