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Assistant Principal
Lift Bexleyheath, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7DAThis job expired on 13 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
13 June 2025 at 1:20pm
Date listed
30 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £69239 - £76112 per annum
Assistant Principal job summary
Salary: L12 - L16 (Outer London Weighting) + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (TPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: September / January 2026
Are you an experienced leader with a strong commitment to inclusive education, high-impact interventions, and staff development?
Bexleyheath Academy, part of the LIFT Schools Trust, is seeking an exceptional Assistant Principal to lead on Inclusion, SEND, Reading, and EAL provision, student Intervention, and Staff Development across the academy. This is a vital leadership role for a strategic, compassionate, and driven individual committed to ensuring every student can thrive.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide strategic leadership for SEND, ensuring compliance and excellence in provision in line with the SEND Code of Practice.
* Champion inclusion embedding a culture where every student feels supported, and empowered.
* Oversee whole-school reading strategy, ensuring literacy is at the heart of our curriculum and intervention planning.
* Lead targeted and evidence-based student interventions for those at risk of underachievement, including those with complex needs.
* Lead provision for EAL learners, enabling rapid language acquisition and full access to the curriculum.
* Lead and develop whole-school staff development programmes that support inclusive teaching and literacy-focused pedagogy.
* Line manage key inclusion staff including the SENCo and Reading Leads, and work closely with external agencies and families.
The Ideal Candidate Will:
* Be an experienced and ambitious middle or senior leader with a proven track record of improving outcomes for vulnerable learners.
* Have deep understanding of the SEND Code of Practice, inclusive pedagogy, and literacy interventions.
* Demonstrate commitment to staff development, building capacity across the school and modelling high-quality practice.
* Be an inspirational communicator with a passion for collaboration, high standards, and a belief in every child's potential.
* Demonstrate a strong commitment to safeguarding and a whole-school approach to inclusion.
About Bexleyheath Academy
Bexleyheath Academy is proud to be a non-selective school in the grammar heartland of Kent. Bexleyheath Academy is quickly approaching capacity with students; in order to accommodate the demands of the local community and grow our skilled staff, we must expand.
Should you wish to visit us in person then our doors are open to you at any time on any day.
Please feel free to contact us to arrange.
Who is Lift Schools?
We're a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 57 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they've ever had.
We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation.
We offer you:
* Career development and training: Access a wide range of statutory and developmental training to boost your career.
* Our partnership with One World powers our innovative Instructional Excellence Program. We also offer a comprehensive range of CPD programs, including Ambition Institute's Early Career and NPQ offerings, tailored to both individual and network needs.
* Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
* Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and even electric vehicle incentives.
The role is due to commence September / January 2026. This is a full time, permanent position.
Closing date: 13 June 2025
Interview date: w/b 16 June 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
About Lift Bexleyheath
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1487 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lift Bexleyheath website
Lift Bexleyheath is part of Lift Schools, one of five schools in the London Region serving over 5000 pupils. We have a well-established reputation and are proud to be a non-selective school in the grammar heartland of Kent. We have excellent attainment and progress outcomes and will stop at nothing to ensure our students have the very best opportunities.
Our core mission has always been to close the educational gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers. Our ambition is one where every student in the school, no matter their background, has equal access to high quality education, giving them the same opportunities and potential to succeed.
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