Vice Principal in Weston-super-Mare

Contract: Permanent

Actual Salary: L22 – L26 (£86,803 - £95,735)

Start Date: April 2026 or sooner

Are you seeking a leadership role that inspires, transforms, and makes a real difference in education? Broadoak Academy is seeking an energetic and dynamic individual to join our senior leadership team as Vice Principal. This role will be part of a newly formed leadership team, supporting the Academy through a period of transition as a new Principal joins us imminently.

Our Academy serves around 800 students and employs 100 staff, with a high proportion of PP and SEND students. We are proud of our positive journey in recent years and our key role within the community. We are looking for a candidate with the experience, enthusiasm, and drive to continue guiding our team on this journey.

The ideal candidate will have experience in strategic school leadership, team building, staff development, and planning and delivering programmes to raise attainment. It is essential that the successful candidate can quickly build and nurture positive, purposeful relationships across the school community – with colleagues, students, and families. The role requires the ability to make and justify difficult decisions, alongside a demonstrable commitment to equality.

Why CLF?

We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. We particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the students we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

What we can offer you:

• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• Comprehensive induction and ongoing support for career development and wellbeing.
• Sector-leading professional development entitlement and opportunities.
• Collaboration with colleagues across the trust through subject communities and specialist networks.
• Shared CLF curriculum, written and curated by trust experts, reducing individual teacher workload.
• Career enhancing and progression opportunities within the trust and through the CLF Institute.
• A collaborative culture which supports workload.
• Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
• A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
• Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking and many more!

Recruitment timeline:

• Academy Tours: w/c 12th & 19th January 2026
• Closing date: 26th January 2026 @ 9.00am
• Interviews: 3rd & 4th February 2026

We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact our Executive Assistant, Debbie Gully at Broadoak Academy.

This is a two-day process (a first full assessment day, with the final interview on day two).

How to apply:

Please complete a full application form via the Eteach website. As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through the application form.

Please note: there is a requirement on page 24 of the Candidate Information Pack for you to include requested information within the Supporting Statement section of the application form. This information will be reviewed during short-listing, as part of your application for this role. The Supporting Statement section does not allow anything over an 8,000-character limit - this is equivalent to 2/3 pages of text in Word, depending on spacing/formatting used. The application form will highlight how many characters you have used/if you reach the limit.

Please also note that updates regarding an application, which could include an invite to interview, will be sent to the email address used when registering an account.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.

Safeguarding Statement

The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.

All successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive pre-employment checking process, including an enhanced DBS check (including a further check against the appropriate barred list), references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, child disqualification, prohibition from teaching/management and online checks. You must also tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.