Assistant Principal
Haileybury Turnford, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, EN8 0JU13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
29 April 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L12-L16 (London Friendge) according to experence
What skills and experience we're looking for
If you would like to make a real difference to our students in a very supportive environment, we would love to hear from you.
Model exemplary classroom practice, demonstrating outstanding pedagogy and setting high standards for teaching across all key stages which is inclusive and ambitious for all students, including for students with SEND and those eligible for Pupil Premium funding.
Adopt a research-informed, evidence-based approach, using current educational thinking to shape strategy and practice.
Act as a dynamic and inspirational leader who motivates and supports colleagues, fostering a culture of continuous professional development.
Lead teams effectively, implementing change with clarity, purpose, and measurable impact on teaching and learning outcomes.
Play a key role in driving whole-school improvement, ensuring consistency, innovation, and excellence in teaching practices.
Coordinate, plan and implement the school’s annual Staff Conference.
The Assistant Principal is also subject to a generic staff job description as appropriate to this level of appointment. Additional roles and tasks will be identified and determined by the Principal.
Leadership
To communicate and consult with staff, students, parents and other stakeholders as necessary.
To manage staff and resources, ensuring that policies and procedures are adhered to and implemented effectively.
To contribute to the overview and review of student behaviour and to participate in the regular whole-school supervisory duties fulfilled on a scheduled basis by the Senior Leadership Team.
Teaching & Learning
To consistently teach lessons that lead to strong progress for students over time.
To lead whole school staff professional development for teaching and support staff and have the capacity and skills to support individual teachers.
To monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching through learning walks, lesson visits, data analysis and other quality assurance processes.
To liaise with external training providers to support the school’s professional development offer to staff.
Pastoral Management and Student Wellbeing
To maximise levels of achievement for all students in the school.
To identify, plan and implement the aims of the school with the rest of the Senior Leadership Team.
To help develop the wider school curriculum to promote the development of the whole child.
Staff Management
Liaise effectively with relevant colleagues, including the Principal, as part of the wider leadership and management team of the school.
To attend and participate in Governors’ meetings as required.
Student Management
Establish and model for all staff positive relationships with the students based on high expectations, trust and respect.
Set the highest expectations of standards of achievement and behaviour through personal example and clear leadership.
Support the work of all staff in the identification of students’ individual needs, liaising with appropriate staff, outside agencies and parents/carers to ensure that these needs are met.
Celebrate student successes at every opportunity.
Other responsibilities
To be responsible for expenditure from budgets where directed by the Principal.
To assist in the allocation and monitoring of the school’s finances, as part of the school’s Senior Leadership Team.
What the school offers its staff
It is an exciting time to join us. When Ofsted visited in March 2022 they were very clear about the very high quality of education at Haileybury Turnford and we have continued to develop our school since this time.
Haileybury Turnford is an oversubscribed six form entry, 11-19 mixed academy in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Our vision is to be the best school we can be, developing every aspect of our students to ensure that they have a strong sense of belonging, and can thrive, flourish and achieve. Our students will leave Haileybury Turnford knowing they have had the opportunities to achieve their personal best and with qualifications that will ensure they progress confidently to college, university and employment.
Haileybury Academy Trust is an academy trust sponsored by Haileybury, the leading co-educational boarding school, and is responsible for Haileybury Turnford. The Trust sets the strategic vision for the school, ensuring the school meets the needs of its students and that there is excellence in all areas of school life, as well as financial security.
There are excellent professional development opportunities to support your own personalised learning, and managing staff workload and wellbeing is very important for us to ensure our staff love working at Haileybury Turnford.
If you would like to make a real difference to our students in a very supportive environment, we would love to hear from you.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and wish to attract and select candidates from a wide, diverse talent pool. Haileybury Turnford is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to employments checks and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check. We will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
Haileybury Turnford is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to employments checks and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the successfulapplicant will be expected to undertake a satisfactory disclosure.
We insist on the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and will never condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
Haileybury Turnford is committed to being an anti-racist organisation and we encourage you to view ourBlack Lives Matter statementwhich gives clarity on our anti-racist stance.In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in the education system and in all aspects of our society. Therefore, for recruitment into any post, where we have 2 or more candidates of equal merit, candidates with protected characteristics will be given advantage over candidates without such characteristics. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘tie-breaker’ and is referred to as ‘positive action’ in the Equality Act 2010.
To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fullydiverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.
If you have not heard from us within 5 working days of the closing date, please contact us to ensure we have received your application. We will acknowledge all applications. All interviews will be held face to face at school.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are 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 maybe subject to the following checks:
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
Full disclosure of any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands/warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Haileybury Turnford
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 967 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Haileybury Turnford website
- Email address
- jarvisj@haileyburyturnford.com
- Phone number
- 01992308333
Haileybury Turnford, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
We require an excellent teacher of the highest calibre to join our committed and talented team.
Our sponsor is Haileybury, the leading independent school, 7 miles north of our school (a few miles north of the M25). It has recently provided significant extra resources to make sure we keep improving quickly.
Arranging a visit to Haileybury Turnford
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jarvisj@haileyburyturnford.com.
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