Assistant Principal
The Olive School, Manchester, Manchester, M8 0DF22 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £53,602 to £62,202 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for an exceptional Assistant Principal to help lead us on our journey of sustained excellence.
We want to hear from talented leaders looking to extend their experience, and ambitious middle leaders seeking their first senior leadership post. You will be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people with the natural ability to inspire and motivate both pupils and peers.
As an outstanding teacher and leader with demonstrable leadership experience, you will make a significant contribution to the leadership and success of our school. As a Star leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.
You will have:
- A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status
- Experience of effective management of a high-achieving faculty
- Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement
- A strong commitment to our STAR values.
What the school offers its staff
About The Olive School, Manchester
The Olive School, Manchester is a new 420-place Muslim faith primary free school in Cheetham Hill. The school opened in September 2024 and admitted an intake of 60 pupils in Reception. The school will continue to admit a new intake of Reception pupils each year so that from 2030 it will accommodate pupils in the full 4-11 age range.
Like all Star schools, The Olive School, Manchester will have a leadership specialism. We will provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Olive School, Manchester
- School type
- Free School, Muslim, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 420 pupils
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Olive School, Manchester website
- Email address
- amreen.yousaf@olivemanchester.staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 0330 313 9900
School location
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