Assistant Principal - Willoughby Road Primary Academy
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | L1 - L5 (£51,773 - £57,136) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 October 2025 |
| Location: | Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Delta Academies Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: |
Summary
Could you be our new Assistant Principal at Willoughby Road Primary Academy? We’re looking for someone to our join our brilliant team from January 2026 on a full time and permanent basis.
Willoughby Road Primary Academy, located in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, is a great place to learn and work for both pupils and staff. Since a new Head of Academy joining us in January 2025, our Academy has been in a period of exciting and positive change.
We’re looking for an excellent Assistant Principal to join us in our journey, to form part of our committed and dynamic Senior Leadership Team. You will deputise for the Head of Academy in their absence, provide proactive support to the Head, Executive Principal and AAB members to ensure the leadership and management of the academy operates effectively. You’ll work alongside another Assistant Principal within our Academy too, but we’re keen to play to your strengths and therefore are happy to consider either a KS1 or KS2 specialist. You’ll ideally have experience working with SEN pupils in a mainstream setting and feel confident supporting in this area.
Our school motto is ‘Today's learners, Tomorrow's leaders’ and we believe that all children, irrespective of their background, can succeed and achieve their ambitions with our core values of building language, raising aspirations and embedded nurture throughout the whole academy. We have around 249 pupils on roll, meaning we’re approximately a 1.5 form entry and have very strong links with our local community. Our most recent Ofsted inspection was carried out in April 2025, where we maintained a ‘Good’ rating in all areas. The report comments on our school’s high expectations for all pupils to learn well and succeed, that our Teachers have secure subject knowledge and that there have been significant improvements to pupils’ attendance since last year.
Good relationships exist with local partnerships including the Scunthorpe schools as well as other academies within Delta Academies Trust. This allows you to share best practice, collaborate and be supported not only within our Academy, but beyond too.
Why join us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high-performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing. Here are just a few examples in each area…
Financial Wellbeing:
• Membership to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme*
• Access to an extensive discounts platform
Physical Wellbeing:
• 24/7 access to an online GP or Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household
• Gym & fitness discounts
• Cycle to Work scheme*
• Free annual flu jab
Mental Wellbeing:
• Access to an industry-leading Employee Assistance Programme
• Menopause Support Service
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained
For more information and to apply for this position please visit our website at Careers with Delta • Delta Academies Trust (deltatrust.org.uk)
If all this aligns with what you’re looking for as the next step in your career, visits to the academy would be warmly welcomed by appointment. We’re happy to fit around your schedule and would love to show you Willoughby Road!
We’re also happy to arrange a phone call or Teams video call with you, if you’re unable to attend a visit to the academy before the closing date.
Please contact the academy on 01724 842608 if you would like to arrange a visit or a conversation.
In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and checks of the relevant barred list / prohibition lists.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. However, it is important to note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may limit the numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
Connect with us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/delta-academies-trust/
Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/deltatrustjobs
Willoughby Road Primary Academy, located in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, is a great place to learn and work for both pupils and staff. Since a new Head of Academy joining us in January 2025, our Academy has been in a period of exciting and positive change.
We’re looking for an excellent Assistant Principal to join us in our journey, to form part of our committed and dynamic Senior Leadership Team. You will deputise for the Head of Academy in their absence, provide proactive support to the Head, Executive Principal and AAB members to ensure the leadership and management of the academy operates effectively. You’ll work alongside another Assistant Principal within our Academy too, but we’re keen to play to your strengths and therefore are happy to consider either a KS1 or KS2 specialist. You’ll ideally have experience working with SEN pupils in a mainstream setting and feel confident supporting in this area.
Our school motto is ‘Today's learners, Tomorrow's leaders’ and we believe that all children, irrespective of their background, can succeed and achieve their ambitions with our core values of building language, raising aspirations and embedded nurture throughout the whole academy. We have around 249 pupils on roll, meaning we’re approximately a 1.5 form entry and have very strong links with our local community. Our most recent Ofsted inspection was carried out in April 2025, where we maintained a ‘Good’ rating in all areas. The report comments on our school’s high expectations for all pupils to learn well and succeed, that our Teachers have secure subject knowledge and that there have been significant improvements to pupils’ attendance since last year.
Good relationships exist with local partnerships including the Scunthorpe schools as well as other academies within Delta Academies Trust. This allows you to share best practice, collaborate and be supported not only within our Academy, but beyond too.
Why join us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high-performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing. Here are just a few examples in each area…
Financial Wellbeing:
• Membership to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme*
• Access to an extensive discounts platform
Physical Wellbeing:
• 24/7 access to an online GP or Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household
• Gym & fitness discounts
• Cycle to Work scheme*
• Free annual flu jab
Mental Wellbeing:
• Access to an industry-leading Employee Assistance Programme
• Menopause Support Service
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained
For more information and to apply for this position please visit our website at Careers with Delta • Delta Academies Trust (deltatrust.org.uk)
If all this aligns with what you’re looking for as the next step in your career, visits to the academy would be warmly welcomed by appointment. We’re happy to fit around your schedule and would love to show you Willoughby Road!
We’re also happy to arrange a phone call or Teams video call with you, if you’re unable to attend a visit to the academy before the closing date.
Please contact the academy on 01724 842608 if you would like to arrange a visit or a conversation.
In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and checks of the relevant barred list / prohibition lists.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. However, it is important to note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may limit the numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
Connect with us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/delta-academies-trust/
Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/deltatrustjobs
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.