Classroom Manager
Location: Leicester, city centre.
Closing Date: 11th December 2025, 9.00am
Interviews: December 2025
Position Start Date: to be confirmed
Salary: LG Band 5, Point 11 – 14, £24,619 - £26,710 pro rata (£28,827 - £31,275 FTE)
Opportunity for an enthusiastic and reliable colleague to join the team, as part of The Mead Educational Trust.
In August 2019, Castle Mead Academy, a non-selective secondary school, opened its doors and welcomed our first year 7 cohort. Since then, we have never looked back! We are now fully-grown, with over 1200 scholars as part of our school, going about their learning each and every day. Building on the success of Rushey Mead Academy, Castle Mead is making available in the heart of Leicester a standard of education matching the very best schools in the country so that every scholar leaves us with high value academic qualifications and wider positive dispositions to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
The opportunity to work in a growing school, is like no other. When you start a school from scratch like we have, it is a golden opportunity to put in place all of the amazing things you have heard and read about from the best schools in the land – but in one place, here in Leicester! Having moved into our new state-of-the-art school building, join us and help to build a genuine legacy of your own, alongside colleagues who are aligned in their values.
We are recruiting a founding team of subject leaders to help realise our vision and “Grow a Community of Excellence.”
This is a unique opportunity to lead in a school where:
• there is a premium on subject expertise with subject leaders being paid on leadership scales of salary;
• there is a cherishing of each subject discipline with no generic “one size fits all” approach;
• a knowledge rich curriculum in each subject gives pupils access to the best which has been thought and said in every field of human endeavour;
• there is a calm orderly environment with rigorous routines so as teachers can teach without interruption;
• there is an emphasis on staff professional growth, with integrated professional learning and coaching;
• we challenge convention, distribute leadership and consistently consider staff workload;
• you will be able to draw upon the strength and expertise of colleagues at Rushey Mead Academy, outstanding since 2007 and in the top 1% of schools nationally for Progress 8 in 2019.
If you are ambitious, persistent and open-minded, with a genuine passion for learning and young people, then we want to hear from you. We are looking for colleagues who:
• are driven by their values to develop a powerful educational offer;
• understands that pastoral care is all of our responsibilities;
• knows we must have sky-high expectations of all;
• want to grow as an individual in a growing school.
Please submit your application by 11th December 2025. For further information, a confidential discussion, to book a visit to Castle Mead Academy or any technical queries please contact Kirsty Gunn, Office Manager, details can be found in the candidate pack.
Castle Mead Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.