Assistant Principal Behaviour at Ernulf Academy
New
New
About this Role
JOIN OUR MISSION TO BECOME ONE OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY!
Role: Assistant Principal – Behaviour
Salary: Leadership Scale 11-15
Start Date: TBC
Closing Date: 08/02/2026
About the Role
Ernulf Academy are building a team of exceptional and highly skilled leaders, committed to driving excellence and improvement in our school. Last year, we improved results by over 10% in multiple metrics, and we’re on a mission to do it again this year!
This career-defining role could be for you if:
- You have a clear understanding of how impeccable behaviour, disruption-free classrooms, and effective pastoral systems help to drive great results.
- You possess a deep passion for pastoral work, ensuring every child feels safe, supported, and included.
- You can demonstrate a proven track record of delivering impact.
As the Assistant Principal for Behaviour at Ernulf Academy, you will work closely with the Principal to help shape the strategic direction of the school. You will play a key role in raising standards across all areas, ensuring excellence in every classroom and fostering a scholarly culture where students can thrive. This is a highly visible leadership position, requiring someone who upholds the highest standards and leads by example. You will drive improvements in behaviour and safeguarding, contributing to academic success and creating a safe, supportive environment for all students. This role is ideal for an experienced Assistant Principal with a proven track record of impact, or an ambitious middle leader ready to take the next step in their career.
Ernulf Academy are building a team of exceptional and highly skilled leaders, committed to driving excellence and improvement in our school. Last year, we improved results by over 10% in multiple metrics, and we’re on a mission to do it again this year!
This career-defining role could be for you if:
- You have a clear understanding of how impeccable behaviour, disruption-free classrooms, and effective pastoral systems help to drive great results.
- You possess a deep passion for pastoral work, ensuring every child feels safe, supported, and included.
- You can demonstrate a proven track record of delivering impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Be a big voice in driving strategic improvements across behaviour and safeguarding.
- Develop clear, actionable plans and implement priorities quickly to secure impact.
- Be an excellent practitioner – an example to which others aspire.
- Maintain a laser focus on data generated through safeguarding and pastoral systems; respond immediately to support children and prevent issues before they arise.
- Use evidence to precisely monitor, diagnose, and evaluate the school’s performance, and use this to drive improvement.
- Model and uphold the highest standards of professionalism and conduct.
- Ensure others are accountable for maintaining culture, systems, routines, and standards.
- Robustly tackle underperformance wherever it is identified.
- Continue to drive the effective implementation of a Warm/Strict approach to behaviour management.
- Understand and embed the importance of routines, both inside and outside the classroom, to secure excellent conduct in a calm, ordered, and safe environment.
- Be a big presence around the school – lead from the front, boss the corridors, and set the tone.
- Demonstrate a mindset of constant and continual improvement.
- Dismantle and rebuild systems and processes until they work brilliantly.
- Build strong relationships with staff, students, and families to reinforce expectations and support positive behaviour.
- Contribute strategically to whole-school improvement as part of the senior leadership team.
About Ernulf Academy:
This is a fantastic time to join TEAM ERNULF on our turnaround journey. We are on a RAPID MISSION to turn our school into one of the BEST in the country! When the current leadership took over, in September 2024, Ernulf had NEVER received an Ofsted 'Good' in ANY category. In January 2025, after just one term, Ofsted rated us 'Good' in ALL categories. Then, in the summer exams we improved our 4+ English and Maths from 52% to 63%! If our rapid improvement and ambition EXCITE you, then join us to DISRUPT DISADVANTAGE by transforming the education of our pupils. We are within an hour's commute of North London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby.
We believe in keeping things simple. Our mantra is: WORK HARD, BE KIND. We don't just want children to attain incredible academic outcomes; we also want to help them become great people.
WORK HARD
Team Ernulf don't believe in fads. We know the biggest factor in a child's achievement is how hard they work. That is why we have sky high expectations. We have simple rules, centralised detentions, and we back our teachers - so that our classrooms are disruption-free. We do this to support our children who want to work hard and do well.
A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’, underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching, following evidence-based research by Rosenshine. Our pedagogy is influenced by Teach Like A Champion (TLAC). Stimulating lessons are delivered by teachers, who we back as
the expert in the room.
BE KIND
Team Ernulf is WWF: warm, welcoming, and friendly. We pride ourselves on having a family atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect and have zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core, but teaching pupils to be polite, considerate, and caring is just as important.
Our world-class enrichment programme takes learning beyond the classroom. In Autumn term 2024 alone, children visited Cambridge University, The British Museum, The National Gallery, RAF Hendon, Kenilworth Castle, and were on Channel 5 and BBC radio!! As well as this, every week KS3 children have the opportunity to take part in electives such as British sign language, clubbercise, building a robotic arm, chess, girls cricket, and many more!
Interested in Applying?
If you're ready to lead with purpose and make a lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you. For further information or to discuss the role, please contact the Principal’s PA at sarah.mccormick@astreaernulf.org.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure all candidates can demonstrate their abilities.
Ready to Make a Difference?
Join a values-led team where your leadership will shape futures. Apply today and be part of our mission to inspire beyond measure.
- Be a big voice in driving strategic improvements across behaviour and safeguarding.
- Develop clear, actionable plans and implement priorities quickly to secure impact.
- Be an excellent practitioner – an example to which others aspire.
- Maintain a laser focus on data generated through safeguarding and pastoral systems; respond immediately to support children and prevent issues before they arise.
- Use evidence to precisely monitor, diagnose, and evaluate the school’s performance, and use this to drive improvement.
- Model and uphold the highest standards of professionalism and conduct.
- Ensure others are accountable for maintaining culture, systems, routines, and standards.
- Robustly tackle underperformance wherever it is identified.
- Continue to drive the effective implementation of a Warm/Strict approach to behaviour management.
- Understand and embed the importance of routines, both inside and outside the classroom, to secure excellent conduct in a calm, ordered, and safe environment.
- Be a big presence around the school – lead from the front, boss the corridors, and set the tone.
- Demonstrate a mindset of constant and continual improvement.
- Dismantle and rebuild systems and processes until they work brilliantly.
- Build strong relationships with staff, students, and families to reinforce expectations and support positive behaviour.
- Contribute strategically to whole-school improvement as part of the senior leadership team.
This is a fantastic time to join TEAM ERNULF on our turnaround journey. We are on a RAPID MISSION to turn our school into one of the BEST in the country! When the current leadership took over, in September 2024, Ernulf had NEVER received an Ofsted 'Good' in ANY category. In January 2025, after just one term, Ofsted rated us 'Good' in ALL categories. Then, in the summer exams we improved our 4+ English and Maths from 52% to 63%! If our rapid improvement and ambition EXCITE you, then join us to DISRUPT DISADVANTAGE by transforming the education of our pupils. We are within an hour's commute of North London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby.
We believe in keeping things simple. Our mantra is: WORK HARD, BE KIND. We don't just want children to attain incredible academic outcomes; we also want to help them become great people.
WORK HARD
Team Ernulf don't believe in fads. We know the biggest factor in a child's achievement is how hard they work. That is why we have sky high expectations. We have simple rules, centralised detentions, and we back our teachers - so that our classrooms are disruption-free. We do this to support our children who want to work hard and do well.
A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’, underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching, following evidence-based research by Rosenshine. Our pedagogy is influenced by Teach Like A Champion (TLAC). Stimulating lessons are delivered by teachers, who we back as
the expert in the room.
BE KIND
Team Ernulf is WWF: warm, welcoming, and friendly. We pride ourselves on having a family atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect and have zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core, but teaching pupils to be polite, considerate, and caring is just as important.
Our world-class enrichment programme takes learning beyond the classroom. In Autumn term 2024 alone, children visited Cambridge University, The British Museum, The National Gallery, RAF Hendon, Kenilworth Castle, and were on Channel 5 and BBC radio!! As well as this, every week KS3 children have the opportunity to take part in electives such as British sign language, clubbercise, building a robotic arm, chess, girls cricket, and many more!
Interested in Applying?
If you're ready to lead with purpose and make a lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you. For further information or to discuss the role, please contact the Principal’s PA at sarah.mccormick@astreaernulf.org.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure all candidates can demonstrate their abilities.
Ready to Make a Difference?
Join a values-led team where your leadership will shape futures. Apply today and be part of our mission to inspire beyond measure.
Related Documents
Contact Details
Sarah McCormick
sarah.mccormick@astreaernulf.org
Ernulf Academy
Open Data obtained from: Department for EducationCambridgeshire
PE19 2SH
Let us know you are interested in working with us by joining our Talent Pool.
If you are available for opportunities within our wider family of schools, why not join our Trust Talent Pool?
0
0
0
