Assistant Principal - Special Resource Base
Oasis Academy Long Cross, Bristol, Bristol, BS11 0LP39 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
17 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours a week Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £49,781 and £54,939
What skills and experience we're looking for
What are we looking for:
- Experience of supporting and realising the potential of children with complex needs coupled with a passion for inclusion.
- An ability to take our established pedagogy vision and bring it to life – for all learners.
- A personal vision and drive to mould this new role using your well-established skills as a specialist educator.
- Experience of liaising with multi-agency teams to leverage the best interventions and support for our children’s unique needs.
- And of course, a willingness to embrace a culture of positivity and hope and to be relentless in the belief that transformative change is possible – despite the many challenges we may face.
If it sounds like our ambition for the future matches your personal aspirations, we would love to hear from you.
And if you would like to see us in action before (or after) you apply – we welcome visits. Please contact the Academy office (details in Application notes below) in the first instance to arrange a suitable date and time. But be prepared to experience somewhere very special.
What the school offers its staff
Oasis Long Cross Assistant Principal – Specialist Resource Base.
Long Cross is special.
- Special due to a culture of social inclusion that means we rarely lose quality staff. People stay because being part of a team that finds joy in what they do and finds time to laugh is a team that is worth being a part of. For the long-term.
- Special in unashamedly showing the families, communities and children it supports genuine love. Long Cross is much more than a school building where lessons are taught. It is a place where children and adults alike thrive and strive to better themselves both academically and socially in a dynamic caring environment.
- And special in its unique 7 class, 50 children Specialist Resource Base (SRB). An inclusive provision within a mainstream 2 to 11 yr Primary phase that truly understand the child centred needs of a very complex and diverse group of learners.
But with this ‘special’ status comes challenge as we grow from 5 classes to 7 and as we continue to attract learners with a wide range of complex needs from the across Bristol region. For us to continue to provide the quality and bespoke education we are so rightly proud of – we need an Assistant Principal with specialist SEND expertise. An individual as driven as we are to provide the very best chances in life for all our pupils – whatever that may look like for each of them. Is that you?
But first – what’s in it for you?
- You’ll work within a team led by our Deputy Principal Rebecca Rollings – a highly experienced, forward thinking, open change agent. An opportunity to learn from an experienced mentor.
- You’ll be part of a wider team headed up by our Principal Karen Sheppard who’s visionary leadership of the Academy has helped shape the SRB into the most requested special education provision in the region.
- You’ll benefit from a significant LA investment in new facilities due to open in September 2025 including a new sensory room, classrooms and group facilities.
- Access to wide ranging training opportunities and investment in your personal development
- Access to the most current pedagogical and evidence-based approaches and our own assessment frameworks and curriculum.
- A highly supportive local team and nationally across Oasis – all with a shared vision to deliver excellence in education. Plus the opportunity to collaborate with other specialist schools in the region.
- A ‘good’ Ofsted with ambitions to improve further – together.
- An opportunity to work in a forward-thinking and forward-doing school, with inspirational children who are sparky, well-behaved, and eager to learn. They make us proud every day.
And beyond this you will be able to access a comprehensive benefits package designed around your wellbeing whilst enjoying the ethos and values of an organisation that was set up to support the most disadvantaged communities. An organisation with a clear purpose to improve lives through inclusion, opportunity and community transformation.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Oasis Academy Long Cross
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 530 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Oasis Academy Long Cross website
- Email address
- Rebecca.Rollings@oasislongcross.org
Arranging a visit to Oasis Academy Long Cross
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Rebecca.Rollings@oasislongcross.org.
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