Vice Principal – Excellence and Innovation

TES FE News; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent educational institution in Doncaster seeks a Vice Principal – Excellence and Innovation to lead academic improvements and foster a positive environment. The successful candidate will manage a team, implement change initiatives, and ensure high standards in teaching and learning. Strong leadership experience and a commitment to professional development are essential. This role offers a supportive environment and attractive benefits.

Benefits

Defined benefit pension scheme

Employee assistance programme

Enhanced sick pay

Cycle-to-work scheme

Free parking

Qualifications

• Must be an exceptional leader with proven impact.
• Experience in whole-school leadership required.
• Demonstrated excellence in classroom practice.

Responsibilities

• Drive academic excellence across the school.
• Line manage Assistant Vice Principals.
• Report effectively to senior leaders and Trustees.

Skills

Robust understanding of teaching and learning

Proven impact in improving provision

Experience in whole-school leadership

Commitment to ongoing professional development

Job description

Overview

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.

In this role, 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.

Who We Are Looking For

To be successful, you will be an exceptional leader with:

• A robust and detailed understanding of teaching, learning, and academic attainment.
• Proven impact in improving provision and outcomes in your current setting.
• Experience in whole-school leadership and evidence of excellence in your own classroom practice.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development and servant-hearted leadership.

You 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.

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.

In Return

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 8 bank holidays per annum, pro-rated for part-time).
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs).

If you believe you have the vision and commitment to work in an Academy which seeks to raise achievement, setting consistently high standards for yourself and your students, please contact us.

For further information and to apply, please contact us. Closing date: Midday on 29 September 2025.

We take our responsibility to safeguard children very seriously, and successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check along with standard pre-employment safeguarding checks.