Vice Principal

Ash Hill Academy are looking to appoint a Vice Principal to join our Academy in September 2024 on a full-time, permanent basis. 

As a Vice Principal, you will support the Associate Principal and other SLT members to provide high quality leadership and management in line with the needs of the Academy and ensure the Academy runs at the most effective level possible.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, hardworking, and dedicated leader to join Ash Hill Academy. Working closely with the Associate Principal, you'll play a pivotal role in developing high-quality education and pastoral provision for our pupils.

The role is ideal for an individual with a track record of impact as a senior leader, who thrives on challenge and has the ability to inspire. It is ideally suited to pastoral support; however, this is not essential criteria.

** Click here to watch a short video, where our SLT share some further details on this opportunity! **

If you are passionate about improving the life chances of all pupils and would thrive in a fast paced and supportive environment, who would be keen on an accelerated leadership pathway to headship, we would love to hear from you!

To discuss the role further, please contact our Associate Principal, Mat Hicks, on 07584667987.  We would strongly encourage any potential candidate to visit us. The Associate Principal will provide tours of the Academy on the following days:

• Tuesday 7th May – 8.00am onwards
• Wednesday 8th May – 8.00am onwards
• Thursday 9th May – 2.30pm onwards

If these times are not suitable for you, please do not hesitate to contact us to arrange an alternative.

Your new school

Ash Hill Academy is an exciting place to learn and as soon as you enter the building you can feel a buzz of enthusiasm. Behaviour in our Academy is very good with a relentless focus upon learning and aspiration. The Academy prides itself on providing its students with a first-class education. We know our students well and do our utmost to ensure they all fulfil their full potential and get the outcomes they truly deserve.

The Academy has a state-of-the-art learning environment which staff and students are proud to teach and learn in respectively. We have the outstanding Porter multi-purpose building built in April 2021 and a new state-of-the-art Sports Centre which opened in March 2024.

Ash Hill Academy is proud to be rated Ofsted GOOD (March 2020), achieved by having dedicated and enthusiastic staff who are committed to giving our community an extraordinary educational experience.  

We are a vibrant Academy with over 870 students on roll and are ever growing. The building facilities speak for themselves and allow us to deliver a high-quality curriculum to our students.

Collaboration is at the heart of the Academy for both students and staff. You will find our Ash Hill Academy team to be positive and reflective towards their own professionalism, with wellbeing as a pivotal aspect of our Academy ethos.

Since joining Delta Academies Trust, the school has moved on a strong upward trajectory. Huge improvements in the quality of education have seen academic outcomes improve significantly with levels of student, staff and parent satisfaction that has never been better.

Our staff are talented and enthusiastic and have all contributed to the Academy’s success story. We have a staff rewards budget and socialise both as subject teams and as a whole staff. We also have access to a staff benefits scheme. At Ash Hill Academy, we value the continuous professional development of all our employees and recognise that our staff and students are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged, and supported to achieve their very best.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high-performing multi-academy trust, with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.

We offer an extensive range of opportunities, incentives and benefits with this post including:

•  Offering unlimited access to a huge range of discounts on holidays, days out, retailer and cashback deals inc. Curry’s, John Lewis, Tesco and B&Q to name but a few.
• Lifestyle and Wellbeing.  Discounted & flexible gym memberships, eye care vouchers, cycle 2 work/Technology scheme, free annual flu jab and 24/7 access to a market leading Employee Assistance Programme providing expert information specialist advisors trained by Citizens Advice and access to professionally qualified counsellors accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
•  Access to an employee vehicle leasing scheme*, discounted vehicle repairs and discounts on car/van hire.
• Excellent employer/employee contributory pension scheme with the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS)
• Personal and professional. We offer a range of training and development opportunities for you to grow and develop.

In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.