About This Role
Trinity Academy is seeking an outstanding individual to join our Senior Leadership Team as Vice Principal – Excellence and Innovation. This pivotal role will focus on ensuring high academic standards, fostering exemplary behaviour and attitudes among students, and empowering staff to achieve their best. You will serve as a role model for both staff and students, build effective teams, and play a key role in shaping the future development and continued success of the school alongside a dedicated and experienced senior leadership team.
You will be responsible for driving academic excellence, ensuring exceptional provision is demonstrated and evidenced during external inspections, and reporting effectively to senior leaders within the Trust as well as governors and trustees. You will identify areas for improvement at whole-school, departmental, and individual levels, demonstrating tenacity in problem-solving and leading change initiatives.
About Trinity Academy
Trinity Academy is part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which is guided by the vision
That “Each person in our school is valued, challenged, and inspired, being made in God’s image and therefore infinitely precious, morally responsible, and gifted for a purpose.” Rooted in faith, hope, and love, and inspired by Christ, we pursue excellence in character development, curriculum learning, and service to our communities. Our seven core virtues—love, wisdom, fairness, self-control, courage, humility, and integrity—underpin all that we do, shaping our mission to provide Christian-ethos schools of character for the whole community.
Trinity Academy has experienced a rapid journey of school improvement over the past three years and currently has 1,297 students on roll, with 224 places in each year group from Year 7 to Year 11, and a Sixth Form intake of 100 students per year. Our staff team consists of 184 dedicated professionals who share a commitment to serving the young people of Thorne and Moorends and their families to the highest standard.
Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking an exceptional leader with:
* A robust and detailed understanding of teaching, learning, and academic attainment.
* Proven impact in improving provision and outcomes in their current setting.
* Experience in whole-school leadership and evidence of excellence in their own classroom practice.
* A commitment to ongoing professional development and servant-hearted leadership.
The successful candidate will line-manage a team of Assistant Vice Principals with expertise in assessment, teaching and learning, curriculum development, and personal development, driving forward our rapid and sustained school improvement journey.
Further information is available in the job description and person specification.
Benefits
Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
* Defined benefit pension scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Free parking
* Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
* Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
* Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
* Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 25 days, plus bank 8 holidays per annum, pro-rated for part-time post-holders)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Trinity Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
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