Assistant Principal- Inclusion

Gracewood Academy, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 1EZ

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  23 February 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 64,499.00 - 71,029.92

Assistant Principal- Inclusion job summary

Gracewood Academy is seeking an Assistant Principal – Inclusion

This is a pivotal moment to join Gracewood Academy, as we begin a bold new chapter following our transition into Future Academies on 1st November 2025. We are seeking an outstanding, ambitious, and morally driven Assistant Principal who is ready to play a central role in shaping the school’s future. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to join our Senior Leadership Team as Assistant Principal - Inclusion. This pivotal role includes strategic leadership of behaviour, attendance and SEND, ensuring that every student, regardless of background or individual need, can access the curriculum, feel safe and supported, and achieve highly.

About us:

We are Future Academies: a flourishing multi-academy trust, founded with the aim of improving the life chances and raising the aspirations of young people. We offer a rich and stimulating education comprised of a knowledge-rich curriculum, diverse cultural and extracurricular opportunities, and a strong pastoral support system. All children and young people are welcomed in our inclusive community, and all are challenged to be the best they can be. This ethos is embodied in our Trust values -Knowledge, Aspiration, and Respect - and in our motto, libertas per cultum (“freedom through education”).

Future Academies recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success. To demonstrate this all staff are offered the following benefits:

• A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues.
• Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression.
• Employer Contributions to Local Government or Teachers Pension Scheme.
• Mintago – access to numerous cost saving employee benefits including fantastic cost savings on childcare.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to a Virtual GP

Further details of the role, including the job description and person specification, can be found in the attached recruitment pack. Details of our staff offer can be found in the attached HR Brochure.

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.

About Gracewood Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: Up to 1082 pupils
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-grace-school-en6-1ez

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