13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    November 2026

  • Closing date

    21 October 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    7 October 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full time equivalent salary

£51,773.00 - £57,136.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership range L1 to L5 (£51,773 to £57,136)

Assistant Principal (7630) job summary

Friarage Community Academy are looking to appoint an Assistant Principal to join our academy in November 2026 on a full time, temporary basis.

As an Assistant Principal, you will form part of the Senior Leadership Team and you will deputise for the Head of Academy in their absence. You will provide proactive support to the Head of Academy, Executive Principal and AAB members to ensure the leadership and management of the academy operates effectively. Your role will be to lead, firstly as a highly effective classroom practitioner that will model outstanding practice as well as undertaking monitoring of the provision, inclusion and achievement for all pupils.

About us

Here at Friarage Community Academy we work to provide a warm and welcoming environment for all, where you feel like you are getting a hug when you walk in our doors.

Our values and ethos of ‘together we can’ are embedded in the positive energy we create and receive in those who learn and work here. Joining our team is about understanding the importance of nurturing, aiming high with the aspirations and dreams of our children, and providing an engaging curriculum that both promotes success and creates happy memories.

As an academy within Delta Academies Trust we are working closely with our sister school Newby & Scalby Academy as we share learning and build a primary hub that our coastal area can be proud of. With access to the Teaching Alliance, based at Scarborough UTC, we continue to rightly place staff development, training and resources at the heart of our journey, and provide you with the support, tools and guidance needed.

Why join us?

Staff across the trust are talented and enthusiastic, and all contribute to the trust’s success story.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high-performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.

CPD

At Delta Academies Trust, we’re committed to your ongoing development and supporting your ambitions, this includes our internal leadership development programmes - Leadership Pathways

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Employee Benefits

As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing.

Click here to view our full range of employee benefits

Trust News

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Inspiring Our Students Beyond The Classroom

Click here to find out more about our outdoor education & environmental centres

For more information and to apply for this position please visit our website at Careers with Delta Delta Academies Trust (deltatrust.org.uk)

Visits to the academy would be warmly welcomed by appointment. Please contact 01723 628610.

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/

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Friarage Community Academy

Organisation type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary school
Size
249 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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Do you want to work for a Trust that is transforming educational outcomes for students in some of the most deprived areas in the North of England? If so, this could be the role for you.
Here at Friarage Community Academy we work to provide a warm and welcoming environment for all, where you feel like you are getting a hug when you walk in our doors.

Our values and ethos of ‘together we can’ are embedded in the positive energy we create and receive in those who learn and work here. Joining our team is about understanding the importance of nurturing, aiming high with the aspirations and dreams of our children, and providing an engaging curriculum that both promotes success and creates happy memories.

As an academy within Delta Academies Trust we are working closely with our sister school Newby & Scalby Academy as we share learning and build a primary hub that our coastal area can be proud of. With access to the Teaching Alliance, based at Scarborough UTC, we continue to rightly place staff development, training and resources at the heart of our journey, and provide you with the support, tools and guidance needed.

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