Join Our Team as an Assistant Principal SENCO at St Ivo Academy!

Salary: Competitive
Start Date: September 2025
Contract Type: Full time, permanent post

About Us: St Ivo Academy is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy located in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. With around 1700 students, including 300 in our Sixth Form, we are proud of our 70-year history and our place within the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy, embracing everyone from students preparing for Oxbridge to the most vulnerable. Our commitment to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour, and culture is reflected in our work.

Our Vision: We provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, ensuring they learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, regardless of their background, prior attainment, or needs. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge, ‘the best that has been thought and said,’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. Influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion,’ Rosenshine, and cognitive science, we create a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful, ensuring impeccable behaviour so teachers can focus on teaching and pupils on learning.

What We Offer:

• Huge support and progression opportunities
• A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional T&L approach
• Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
• Excellent support from Astrea central team colleagues
• Opportunity to teach up to A Level
• A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
• Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
• Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
• Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (no need to organise/chase them)
• No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching
• Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region
• Opportunity to complete NPQs
• An unrivalled professional progression model
• A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridgeshire

What We Are Looking For:

• Highly effective professionals with excellent knowledge in their area of expertise
• Colleagues who are aligned to our values and mission. If you fit with our culture, you will love working here
• Colleagues who passionately believe that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs. Someone who does not make excuses for what children can achieve

Why Join Us? Astrea Academy Trust is committed to providing an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our scholars. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge and creating a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful. Our values-driven approach ensures impeccable behaviour, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and pupils to focus on learning.

Interested in Applying? If you are passionate about education, looking for a fresh opportunity, or simply want to make a positive impact, we would love to hear from you. Take a look at the job description and candidate pack to find out more about the role and how to apply.

Closing Date: The closing date for applications is 22 April 2025. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!

Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.

Flexible Interview Dates: Please note that interview dates are flexible and the academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window (if applicable).

Ready to Make a Difference? If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!