Assistant Principal with responsibility for Inclusion (DSL & SENDCO)

Location: Walthamstow

Salary: Competitive/ United Learning Leadership PayScale

Start Date: September 2024

Contract: Permanent 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Closing date for application: Friday, 19 April 2024

Interviews: Week beginning 22 April 2024

Are you a leader, committed to making a real difference to children’s lives? Are you ambitious, motivated, and ready to take the next step in your professional development? We are looking for an outstanding Assistant Principal to be able to lead on the continual development and enhancement of our academy; someone with both the theoretical and practical expertise; as well as a track record and commitment to driving up standards across the school.

The Assistant Principal will be the named school designated safeguarding lead and will be responsible for SEND across the school under the direction of the principal and will take a major role in driving forward the collective vision, aims and objectives of the school with all stakeholders. 

We seek an outstanding and innovative Assistant Principal with the ability to be a role model, build teams, and empower others. We are looking for someone who is committed to securing high standards of learning and teaching to raise academic achievement and committed to ensuring exceptional standards for teaching and learning practices. You will be an outstanding practitioner, and a strong leader of people and teams, who will look to you for outstanding line management, support, and challenge.

What we offer as a school:

• Clear purpose. We are all here to make a real difference to students lives.
• An environment in which student behaviour is exemplary.
• An opportunity to work in a charitable organisation that is focused on improving the lives of disadvantaged children; the core value of the Trust is “the best in everyone”.
• Much opportunity for professional development, within our school and our Trust.



Please see the attached job description and person specification.

Visits to the school are strongly recommended. Please get in touch and we would be delighted to show you around. Please call 0208 5233228 to arrange a visit. Visit our school website http://www.whittinghamprimaryacademy.org.uk.

United Learning is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

*A Google search will be undertaken on shortlisted candidates for safer recruitment purposes*

We reserve the right to interview and offer to a strong candidate prior to the closing date. It is strongly recommended that candidates submit their application as soon as possible.