Assistant Principal

Contract: Permanent

Hours/working pattern: Full time

Salary/hourly rate: L8-L12 (£59,167 - £65,286)

Location: Filey School

Closing Date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 09:00am

Start Date: September 2025

Our Opportunity

Filey School is looking to appoint an exceptional Assistant Principal to join us in September 2025.  This role presents a brilliant opportunity to play a pivotal part in the improvement journey of the school. As a leader, you will be relentless in your drive to ensure that all students, regardless of their background, can achieve to the best of their ability. You will bring energy, enthusiasm and a love of learning that you’ll aim to instil in the students you serve. Leading improvement is challenging and hugely rewarding. Alongside the rest of the senior leadership team, you will have the courage to make the right choices for the students in our community and you will model the highest standards and the highest expectations. It’s imperative that you love your subject and teach with skill and energy. Our students are warm, engaging and keen to do well. They deserve to thrive in a school that understands how important outcomes are for their future. They deserve to thrive in a school that ensures they have every opportunity to succeed. You will be a leader with presence, humility and an understanding of what a great education looks like. Because of that, you will help bring about positive change for the students of Filey School. We look forward to meeting you.

Filey Secondary School

Filey School is a close-knit community, and we pride ourselves on knowing all of our pupils well.  We understand how vital it is that students from Filey and surrounding areas enjoy the benefits of an engaging and enriching curriculum offer that results in the very best outcomes for them. We want them to be able to realise their full potential and to do great things. We aim to support our students so that they are confident, community-minded young people who love learning and will be a positive presence wherever they choose to go next.

We aim to ensure that our pupils can learn in a safe and supportive environment, where everyone values academic achievement and has a positive attitude to learning. Our recent Ofsted inspection acknowledged the improvement journey that the school is on and we are fully committed to building on the successes we are having for the good of our students. We place learning at the heart of everything we do and believe that all students should have the opportunity to feel proud of their achievements. As such, we believe in rewarding pupils for good behaviour, attendance and achievement and run a number of celebration events throughout the year. 

We strongly encourage our pupils to take part in enrichment activities so they can discover all their strengths and talents, and run numerous clubs, as well as pupil support sessions and interventions. We also regularly organise whole school events and educational visits so that our pupils have a broad experience of learning beyond the classroom. Recent overseas trips have included visits to Berlin and the Western Front and there are regular theatre trips and sporting fixtures.

Coast and Vale will shortly be joining Delta Academies Trust, a high-performing Multi Academy Trust that is transforming educational outcomes for students in some of the most deprived areas in the North of England.

As part of Delta Academies Trust, you’ll have access to ongoing CPD (both internally and externally) with the opportunity to further develop your skills and career alike. You’ll join a large network of colleagues across the trust, meaning lots of collaboration and peer support both within your academy and beyond, as well access to an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

Ultimately, here at Filey, we understand that our pupils are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged, and supported to achieve their very best. We hope you’re excited to be a part of making that happen.

Working for Us

As well as being committed to your ongoing development and training we also offer a range of employee benefits including a competitive salary, access to a government pension scheme, an employee assistance programme as well as a variety of retail discounts.

Application Process

For an informal chat about this position please call Filey School on 01723 512354.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed by appointment. Please call to arrange your visit on 01723 512354.

We do not accept CVs.

If you would like to discuss this vacancy or arrange to visit us please contact as described above.  

We reserve the right to close this vacancy should we receive an overwhelming response. 

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people we work with and expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check.  We have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our Schools.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief.  We want to recruit the right people for the Trust, from the widest possible backgrounds, to make the most of each individual’s different knowledge and experience.

Your privacy is important to us.  By submitting your personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Trust’s “Privacy Notice Recruitment” which can be found on our website.

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