Assistant Principal: Inclusion
Liverpool College, Liverpool, Merseyside, L18 8BG17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time, Monday through Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Spine L14- L16
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, develop, persuade and inspire others
- Full knowledge of and commitment to educational inclusion, anti-racism and equity
- Ability to identify potential barriers to learning and to devise strategies to enable pupils to overcome these barriers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to represent the school in a wide variety of contexts and with a broad range of stakeholders
- Experience as an effective leader at senior or middle leadership level in a school
- Experience of the design, management and evaluation of intervention strategies that were effective in raising attainment and progress in individuals or groups of pupils
- Successful classroom experience with supporting data demonstrating pupil progress against targets at all levels.
- A proven record of loyal, positive, and effective membership of a team
What the school offers its staff
- An exciting challenge and ambitious vision for the future;
- The opportunity to work at an innovative, oversubscribed and successful all-through school with a clear mission and an undiluted belief in the importance of educating the whole person.
- Enthusiastic and committed pupils, parents and colleagues and a supportive and effective Governing Body;
- A workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best.
- A commitment to the principles of inclusive education
- A serious and committed approach to professional development.
- A school located in a 28 acre campus in a leafy suburb of Liverpool.
Some additional benefits:
- Free Fitness Centre Membership: Employees have complimentary access to the college's fitness facilities, promoting health and wellness.
- Free Parking: Convenient, free parking is available on site.
- Complimentary Lunch Allowance: Staff members receive a lunch allowance, providing them with delicious and nutritious meals during work hours.
Further details about the role
Liverpool College is seeking to appoint an inspiring, innovative and dedicated leader to drive the College’s inclusion strategy in improving outcomes for pupils and groups of pupils and promoting a sense of belonging for all members of the College community. This is a new role at the school following a review of leadership across the College.
Leading our established Inclusion Team, and working closely with the Vice Principals and other senior leaders, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in the College’s strategic approach to inclusion, including SEND. They will also lead and manage the strategy to support Pupil Premium (PP) pupils and 16-19 Bursary Fund students, and our wider work around diversity and equity across the College.
The Assistant Principal: Inclusion will have a significant strategic and operational role and will be a key contributor to the successful development and implementation of strategies and policies which deliver an exceptional and transformative education to our pupils. This position provides an ambitious candidate the scope to build an outstanding Inclusion provision at our school.
This is a unique opportunity for a dynamic leader who shares our commitment to the principles of inclusive education, ensuring that all pupils regardless of their background or abilities are able to participate fully in school life and achieve their full potential, and who appreciates the challenges and opportunities of working in an innovative and vibrant all-through school.
Liverpool College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. The successful applicant will be expected to undertake an enhanced DBS check. Liverpool College is an equal opportunities employer.
At Liverpool College, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, is representative of our school community. We champion equality, anti-racism, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best.
Visits
Candidates may wish to visit the school before the application deadline.
Informal visits will be taking place on:
- Friday 25 April at 9am
- Wednesday 30 April at 1.30pm
Please contact Miss Bamber (Principal’s PA) at sbamber@liverpoolcollege.org.uk if you wish to attend on one of these dates.
How to Apply
The job description and person specification can be downloaded below.
- Please return the completed application form to vacancies@liverpoolcollege.org.uk by 10am on Tuesday 6 May 2025.
- Interview date: Friday 9 May 2025.
Commitment to safeguarding
Liverpool College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. Successful applicants will be expected to undertake an enhanced DBS check. Liverpool College is an equal opportunities employer.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to vacancies@liverpoolcollege.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Liverpool College
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1646 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Liverpool College website
- Email address
- vacancies@liverpoolcollege.org.uk
Liverpool College is a mixed ability 4-19 Academy of some 1660 pupils. The College is situated on a leafy 28-acre campus located in the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool adjacent to Sefton Park.
STRUCTURE AND LEADERSHIP
The College is organized into two phases and five schools:
• The Primary Phase consists of the Pre-Prep (Reception-Year 2) and Preparatory School (Year 3-Year 6) and each are housed in their own buildings.
• The Secondary Phase consists of the Senior School (Middle School (Years 7-9) and Upper School (Years 10-11)) and the Sixth Form (Years 12-13) which share classroom facilities. The Sixth Form also has its own centre.
From September 2025, the leadership of the College will be led by the Principal who is supported by two Vice Principals who are responsible for our educational provision in the primary phase and secondary phase respectively, and by the School Business Manager who will be responsible for the financial management of the College and the operation of its core business and support services.
The wider senior leadership team (College Development Group) will include the Head of Boarding and six Assistant Principals. Two Assistant Principals have College-wide responsibilities (AP: Safeguarding & Wellbeing and AP: Inclusion), three Assistant Principals have responsibilities in the secondary phase (AP: Head of Sixth Form. AP: LCA Curriculum & Learning and AP: LC+ Curriculum & Learning) and in the primary phase there is an Assistant Principal: Deputy Head of Primary.
At Liverpool College, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, is representative of our school community. We champion equality, anti-racism, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best.
OUR HISTORY
The College was founded in 1840 and was a founding member of the Headmaster’s Conference and was a fee-paying school until September 2013, when it became an all-through academy for pupils aged 4 to 19 years old. The College also offers state boarding provision. It is a Church of England foundation that has always been open to pupils and families of all faiths and none. It does not apply any faith criteria in its pupil admissions or staff recruitment policy.
In the last few years, it has become one of the most over-subscribed schools in the North of England.
Liverpool College was judged Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted at its last inspection in November 2019.
PURPOSE AND INTENT
Our purpose is to transform the lives of young people, regardless of background or ability, by relentlessly challenging and consistently inspiring them to reach their maximum academic and personal potential within an inclusive and aspirational learning community dedicated to the highest standards.
Our intent is to be a School of Character, which through a unique curriculum and extraordinary teaching, systematically and effectively inspires and guides all pupils to maximise their academic and personal potential and aptitude regardless of their background or any disadvantage.
MISSION AND ETHOS
Directed by our motto, not only the intellect also character, we strive to live out today the vision of our foundation over 180 years ago. We develop in all our pupils, regardless of their backgrounds or abilities, the traits of Purpose, Passion and Challenge so that they can embark on their life’s journey with knowledge, confidence, direction, and strong moral purpose.
We do this by relentlessly pursuing together the highest standards, and by developing and delivering a unique, varied, challenging and holistic curriculum inside and outside the classroom to all our pupils.
We work together to ensure that we are an aspirational and inclusive community for all our pupils.
Above all, Liverpool College is a happy, successful and outward-looking school with a clear mission and an undiluted belief in the importance of educating the whole person.
Arranging a visit to Liverpool College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@liverpoolcollege.org.uk.
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