Assistant Principal
King's Academy Binfield, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 4FS12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
February 2027
Closing date
2 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
19 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
- £79,518.00 - £87,036.00 Annually (Actual) KGA Leadership Scale L16 - L20 (includes Fringe)
Assistant Principal job summary
Inspire excellence. Lead strategic improvement. Shape the future of our academy. Join a dynamic Senior Leadership Team in a bold and ambitious all-through academy.
King's Academy Binfield is seeking to appoint a passionate, dynamic and innovative Assistant Principal to join our ambitious Senior Leadership Team and growing academy community from February 2027.
This is an exciting opportunity to strategically lead, manage, and inspire across key academy areas as a member of the Senior Leadership Team within a forward-thinking all-through school. As Assistant Principal, you will hold responsible strategic leadership for allocated portfolio areas across the academy (e.g. Quality of Education, Pastoral & Culture, Curriculum, or Standards), ensuring high-quality education, continuous improvement, and student wellbeing at King’s Academy Binfield.
You will work alongside the Executive Principal and Vice Principals to drive school-wide priorities, leading teams across the academy in delivering exceptional standards, fostering an inclusive culture, and securing outstanding outcomes for all students. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future strategic direction of the academy.
At King's Academy Binfield, Senior Leadership is central to driving our wider vision of providing opportunity and success on a global stage. We believe that visionary leadership empowers staff to innovate, collaborate, and excel, creating an environment where every student can flourish academically, socially, and emotionally.
Our Senior Leadership Team is characterised by:
- A high-performing, collaborative, and supportive team culture focused on shared accountability
- Strategic vision and drive to maintain high standards of teaching, learning, and student welfare
- A strong commitment to leadership development and coaching for middle leaders and staff
- Evidence-informed leadership, driving continuous improvement across allocated portfolio areas
- A genuine commitment to staff wellbeing, professional trust, and operational excellence
- Uncompromisingly high aspirations for student achievement, personal development, and equity
As part of our all-through academy, you will benefit from working within a unique educational environment spanning Nursery to Post-16, offering opportunities to understand and shape the full student journey. Our growing Sixth Form and expanding provision create exciting possibilities for curriculum development, leadership growth and innovation.
We are seeking an exceptional leader and outstanding practitioner who can inspire and motivate both staff and students. The successful candidate will:
- Provide strategic leadership across allocated portfolio areas (e.g. Quality of Education, Pastoral & Culture, Curriculum, or Standards).
- Drive continuous academy-wide improvement, ensuring high-quality education and student wellbeing.
- Line manage, coach, and develop middle leaders to build leadership capacity across the academy.
- Analyse performance data and evaluate quality of provision to implement effective strategic actions.
- Ensure rigorous safeguarding standards, professional compliance, and positive behavior cultures are maintained.
- Contribute actively as a core member of the Senior Leadership Team to whole-school policy, planning, and operations.
- Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning within the department, ensuring consistently high standards.
- Contribute actively to the wider leadership and strategic development of the academy.
- Be reflective, ambitious and committed to their own professional growth and the success of their team.
We are particularly keen to hear from candidates who embody our core values of Honesty, Faith and Courage — approaching their work with integrity, optimism and a determination to make a meaningful difference.
King's Academy Binfield is a vibrant, inclusive and ambitious school, where staff are supported, valued and empowered to grow. Collaboration, professional respect and shared purpose underpin everything we do, ensuring that both students and staff can flourish.
Application Process
For full details and an application form, please visit our website or the My New Term platform, or contact Amber Walker, HR Coordinator, at amber.walker@kingsacademies.uk. We warmly welcome visits to the academy and would be delighted to meet you.
Completed application forms should be submitted via My New Term or to Ella Hetherington, PA to the Executive Principal at ella.hetherington@kingsacademies.uk or Amber Walker, HR Coordinator at amber.walker@kingsacademies.uk by 9am on Monday 2nd November 2026.
King’s Academy Binfield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.
Please note that all applications will be considered upon receipt, therefore an early reply is recommended. We reserve the right to close the advert early should the right candidate apply.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
At King’s Academy Binfield and Oakwood we recognise our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children. We will endeavour to provide a safe and welcoming environment where students and their families are respected and valued.
We will be alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and follow recognised procedures to ensure that children receive effective support, protection and justice. All children, regardless of age, gender, ability, culture, race, language, religion or sexual identity, have equal rights to protection.
Mrs Laura Phillips: laura.phillips@kingsacademies.uk is our Designated Safeguarding Lead if you have any safeguarding concerns.
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 King's Academy Binfield
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
- All through school
- Size
- 1500 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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Our all-through school opened in a superb new building in September 2018 and we have grown year on year, with our first Year 11 students currently in the final year of their GCSE study. In addition to the secondary phase, we also have two primary phases set across two sites, King’s Academy Binfield (KAB) and King’s Academy Oakwood (KAO). In September 2023, we will have students from year N to year 6 in primary and year 7 through to year 12. Our 6th Form will be opening in September 2023.
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