Assistant Principal

Lime Hills Academy, Nailsea, BS48 2NN

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  18 May 2026 at 8:59pm

• Date listed

  6 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £58,569 - £64,691

Assistant Principal job summary

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Contract: Permanent

Actual Salary: L6 - L10 (£58,569 - £64,691)

Start Date: September 2026

Your opportunity to help lead a specialist SEMH provision where every staff member is proud to support students to develop a sense of self, sense of place and sense of community:

Cabot Learning Federation is seeking to appoint an individual to help lead Lime Hills Academy, a welcoming school with a strong community of students and staff. This role will involve working alongside other specialists and alternative provision leaders to support children with an EHCP in improving their educational outcomes and staying engaged in learning through tailored facilities and programmes.

Lime Hills is a unique school that has developed significantly over the past four years. As it looks ahead, the aim is to appoint a new Assistant Principal who will help in driving the school forward, with a strong focus on inclusive excellence.

All students at Lime Hills have an EHCP, with a primary focus on SEMH. The school takes its responsibility for each student very seriously, ensuring that staff are nurturing, trauma-informed, and maintain high expectations for all learners. As a relatively new school, this role offers the opportunity for the successful candidate to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the academy’s next stage of development.

Further details about the role, including the job description and person specification, are available in the accompanying candidate information pack.

Why CLF?

We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. We particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the students we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion.

What we can offer you: 

• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

• Comprehensive induction and ongoing support for career development and wellbeing.

• Sector-leading professional development entitlement and opportunities.

• Collaboration with colleagues across the trust through subject communities and specialist networks.

• Shared CLF curriculum, written and curated by trust experts, reducing individual teacher workload.

• Career enhancing and progression opportunities within the trust and through the CLF Institute.

• A collaborative culture which supports workload.

• Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.

• Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.

• A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.

• Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking and many more!

Recruitment timeline:  

Academy tours*: Week commencing 11 May 2026

Closing Date: 18 May 2026 @ 8.59am

Short-listing: 18 May 2026

Interviews: 21 or 22 May 2026 (To be confirmed)

*We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy directly to arrange a suitable appointment. 

How to apply:

Please complete a full application form via the Eteach website. As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through the application form.  

Please note: there is a requirement on page 24 of the Candidate Information Pack for you to include requested information within the Supporting Statement section of the application form. This information will be reviewed during short-listing, as part of your application for this role. The Supporting Statement section does not allow anything over an 8,000-character limit - this is equivalent to 2/3 pages of text in Word, depending on spacing/formatting used. The application form will highlight how many characters you have used/if you reach the limit. 

Updates regarding an application, which could include an invite to interview, will be sent to the email address used when registering an account. 

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist. 

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 Lime Hills Academy

• School type: Free Schools, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 55 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lime Hills Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/north-somerset-semh-school

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