Richard Rose Morton Academy serves families in the Morton area of Carlisle and educates around 900 pupils aged 11–16. While the school benefits from modern facilities and a committed staff team, we know there is more to do to ensure every child achieves well. This is a school with real strengths and opportunities, but it needs a renewed sense of ambition and focused leadership to deliver consistently high standards.

Our goal is clear: to raise expectations, strengthen teaching and learning, and create a culture where excellence is the norm. This is a role for a leader who can inspire ambition, drive improvement, and manage change – someone who sees challenge as an opportunity to make a lasting impact. If you are passionate about improving outcomes and creating a school where every child thrives, we would be delighted to hear from you.

United Learning is a big group of schools – with over 75,000 pupils and more than 10,000 staff – so we have the capacity to support you educationally and operationally. At the same time, we are values led and base all that we do on good relationships, so you will be joining a big family. Reporting directly to the Regional Director, you will be supported both personally and professionally, benefitting from the strength of a national Group who will support your development and that of your staff and school. 

We are committed to fairness, diversity and inclusion. We are currently working hard to improve the representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders at headship level and to raise our proportion of women leaders to match their representation in our wider workforce. Whoever you are, if you have a strong track record of improving young  people’s education and a drive to do more, we very much look forward to hearing from you.

We fully recommend that you take the opportunity to make an informal visit prior to making your application to see the school for yourself. If you would like to arrange a visit or discuss the role in further detail, please contact Geoff Morris at geoff.morris@unitedlearning.org.uk or by phone on 07811 345 638.