13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 January 2026

  • Closing date

    18 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    3 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£62,202.00 - £68,586.00 Annually (Actual) L10 - L14

Assistant Principal: SEND job summary

Are you passionate about inclusive education? Do you have the drive to lead a transformational SEND provision in a flourishing school environment?

The King's CofE Academy is seeking a dedicated and visionary Assistant Principal: SEND, to join our senior leadership team. This pivotal role provides the opportunity to shape the future for students with special educational needs, ensuring they have the support, access, and engagement needed to flourish academically and personally.

The ideal candidate will:

  • Be an experienced and ambitious middle or senior leader with a proven track record of improving outcomes for vulnerable learners
  • Be an inspirational communicator who has an excellent ability to develop effective partnerships with staff, parents, pupils and the wider community agencies, including the Local Authority, in order to drive forward change and shape the future for our pupils with additional needs
  • Be a teacher who already holds either the National Award for SENCOs or the SENCO NPQ and has an in depth understanding of the SEND Code of Practice, inclusive pedagogy, and effective interventions
  • Be a driven individual with the capacity to project and sustain a positive attitude and approach at all times
  • Be an excellent, inspiring leader with the ability to manage, organise and motivate staff with diplomacy, sensitivity and good humour.

Further details about the post, The King’s CofE Academy and Three Spires Trust, can be found in the accompanying Candidate Information Pack.

We strongly encourage all candidates to take the opportunity of visiting the academy prior to submitting an application. To arrange a visit, or an informal discussion, please in the first instance, contact Miss S Smith, PA to the Head of School on 01782 783281.

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Commitment to safeguarding

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment.

The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

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About The King's CofE Academy

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
765 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
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School website
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Our academy is a superb place to grow, to learn, to work and to flourish. As a relatively new academy (we opened in January 2016 and moved into our superb new build in November 2016), we are keen to retain our place as ‘the school of choice in Kidsgrove’.



Our motto ‘Learning with truth and love’ epitomises the values towards which our governors, our staff and our students strive to embody. Students are consistently inspired and encouraged to become everything that God has created them to be, through a wide ranging and inclusive curriculum and a wealth of exciting enrichment opportunities. We work hard to create a vibrant, mutually supportive climate for learning in which everyone can thrive.



Staff lead by example and are passionate about encouraging, inspiring, challenging and stretching every individual in their care, so that they can achieve at the highest levels. We do our utmost to maximise the attainment of each student, placing great emphasis on individual character development and personal growth.



We are an inclusive school with students of all abilities and social backgrounds. For those students with individual learning and physical needs, we have an extensive inclusion team. Our staff make every effort to get to know each student as an individual.



Our well embedded ‘Behaviour for Learning’ policy is designed to encourage positive attitudes to lessons and to ensure students’ behaviour underpins their learning. A recent external assessment describes behaviour in lessons as 'exemplary'.



Our mission is to enable students to leave The King's with outstanding results and life changing experiences, equipped to be responsible and caring citizens ready to make their mark on the world in which they live.

Staff turnover at The King’s is really low: people want to stay and work here. The academy is a community of its own. Colleagues join us from the local area and from further afield - it is a place where professionals want to work.

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