Assistant Principal
Dogsthorpe Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 4LH9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 January 2027
Closing date
21 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £57,137.00 - £66,368.00 Annually (FTE) L5-L11
Assistant Principal job summary
Assistant Principal (Curriculum)
Dogsthorpe Academy is seeking to appoint a highly motivated, ambitious and talented Assistant Principal (Curriculum) to join our senior leadership team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced middle leader or existing senior leader who is passionate about curriculum excellence and committed to ensuring every child achieves their very best.
Alongside strategic leadership responsibilities, the role includes a teaching commitment, enabling the successful candidate to model outstanding classroom practice and directly influence outcomes for pupils.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has a proven track record of securing strong outcomes for children.
- Is an excellent classroom practitioner with high expectations of achievement and behaviour.
- Has experience of successfully leading curriculum development and improvement.
- Can analyse performance information effectively and use this to drive strategic action.
- Has the ability to motivate, inspire and develop colleagues.
- Is committed to inclusion and ensuring all children achieve success regardless of starting points.
- Demonstrates resilience, integrity and a relentless focus on continuous improvement.
- Shares our values and commitment to providing the very best educational experience for every child.
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Lead and further develop the academy curriculum.
- Support quality assurance activities including monitoring, evaluation and school improvement planning.
- Work with leaders and teachers to improve teaching, learning and assessment.
- Use assessment and achievement information to evaluate impact and identify priorities.
- Line manage designated staff and contribute to their professional development.
- Help drive standards, achievement and personal development across the academy.
- Contribute strategically to the leadership and management of Dogsthorpe Academy.
- Maintain a teaching commitment and model exemplary classroom practice.
About us:
We are a large junior academy, with a committed staff team, serving a wonderfully diverse community in Peterborough. The academy, last inspected in June 25, was judged as a good school in all areas of the Ofsted framework. The report describes Dogsthorpe as “a highly inclusive school,” where staff know pupils well and adapt teaching to ensure everyone can access learning alongside their peers. Mental health and well-being remain a top priority, helping children become resilient and confident learners. Pupils are described as happy and confident. As a team, we know that every child needs the very best teaching and support in order to flourish.
In return we can offer:
- fabulous children who are keen to learn
- a highly support staff team
- outstanding opportunities for professional development and career progression
- a superb support network as part of the wider Greenwood Academies Trust
In return we have multiple benefits for our talented and highly valued people:
- A comprehensive package of benefits via our benefits marketplace
- A free digital wellbeing companion for all colleagues
- A free, 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme - confidential & compassionate support when you need it
- Train & qualify as a Mental Health First Aider. We aim to have a qualified Mental Health First Aider in each academy
- Supporting your professional development through CPD, Apprenticeships, Upskilling and Professional Review
- Generous public sector pension schemes for everyone
- Eye tests & Spectacles Discount
- Family friendly policies and time off for dependants
- Dedicated ECT support programme
- Access to savings in childcare costs
- Generous annual leave allocation
- Automatic pay progression
- Free parking on all sites
- Principles on workload & directed time for teaching staff
- Professional Supervision for Academy Leaders
If this post attracts sufficient interest before the closing date, we may decide to close and interview this vacancy at an earlier date, so an early application is advised.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All posts will be subject to receipt of satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, medical and reference checks. All pre-employment checks are in line with "Keeping Children Safe in Education”.
The Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
To find out more about the role contact vredhead@dosgthorpeacademy.org Visits warmly welcomed.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Dogsthorpe Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 318 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Dogsthorpe Academy website
The Dogsthorpe Junior Academy, part of the Greenwood Academies Trust (GAT), is a junior academy situated in a small community in the north of Peterborough. It is led by the Principal, Julie Cranke, who aims to ensure that it delivers an exciting, innovative and creative curriculum that meets the needs of the pupils. All staff work hard to ensure that every pupil is supported and nurtured, helping them to develop the confidence and skills needed for the years ahead. In addition to the formal curriculum, pupils are also provided with a range of opportunities to follow their own interests and carry out individualised learning programmes.
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