Assistant Principal - SENDCO and inclusion

Saracens High School, London, NW9 4AS

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  17 September 2025 at 6pm

• Date listed

  1 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £72,009.00 - £79,157.00 Annually (Actual) Outer London L12-L16

Assistant Principal - SENDCO and inclusion job summary

We are looking for an Assistant Principal to join our high performing senior leadership team to lead on inclusion and to be our SENDCO. The successful candidate will have exceptional middle leadership experience or previous senior leadership experience, and will have or be willing to work towards the SENDCO award.

You will be highly organised, an exceptional classroom practitioner, and effective in driving pupils' progress. You will be ambitious to create a strong reputation for the school, building on our early successes, to ensure that our pupils can attend the best Universities or successfully compete for sought-after apprenticeships.

With strong ties to the wider Saracens organisation, we base all we do on the values Discipline, Hard Work, Honesty, and Humility and we focus on character development and making memories, as much as outstanding academic attainment. Last year, KS4 attainment was in the top 9% nationally, and our contextual value-added places us in the top 4% nationally, and our first cohort of students achieved exceptional KS5 attainment this summer, with 92% going on to begin a degree apprenticeship or university, with 15% going to a Russell Group University.

Saracens High School has a family ethos and is committed to supporting staff in this rewarding job, while recognising the stress it puts upon us. With generous teacher loadings, an on-site gym that is free for staff, the opportunity for colleagues to take family days, and access to a staff counsellor, we do all we can to look after our staff.

Our aim is to develop aspirational life-long learners, who will thrive in their chosen career path, embracing our values, and demonstrating a strong moral purpose and a desire to make a positive contribution to society and their local community. (Hear Paul Dix speak about Saracens High School here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Utm3ocGeII).

Saracens High School is a secondary school that opened in September 2018 for Year 7 pupils, growing each year until being full in September 2024. We currently serve 1200 pupils, including a thriving Sixth Form, from the wonderfully diverse community in the Colindale area of North London, which also has exceptional transport links with the Northern Line (Colindale) and mainline trains (Mill Hill Broadway), and easy access to main commute routes (M1, A1, A41).

Salary: Outer London L12-L16

Start date: January 2026

How to apply:

Complete the application form on the TES website. Your supporting statement should briefly summarise you key career achievements to this point. You should also state in no more than 50 words which of our four values is most important to you and explain why.

If you have any questions or would like a general conversation about the role with the Principal, please email the Principal directly: principal@saracenshigh.org

The closing date is 17 September 2025 with interviews on 23 and 24 September.

Saracens Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check.

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

The Trustees and Governors recognise their responsibility under section 175 of the Education Act 2002 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. We are committed to working with other organisations and agencies to ensure good arrangements within the school to identify assess and support those children who are suffering harm or at risk of harm.
The principles on which our policies are based apply to all trustees, governors, staff and volunteers working in or with the school.

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 Saracens High School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1132 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Saracens High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/saracens-high-school

Saracens High School is a new secondary school which opened in September 2018. This year we have our first cohort of Year 11s sitting exams in the summer and we open our Sixth Form in September 2023.

The school is located in the Colindale area of North London with easy access to the Northern Line (Colindale) and mainline rail (Mill Hill Broadway) as well as the M1 and A1.
We will moved into our brand new state of the art building in the autumn of 2021.

Learn more about the school at our website www.saracenshigh.org or here https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/saracens-high-school-1168079

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