Assistant Vice Principal (English Specialism)

Hillside High School, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 9NU

5 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  11 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Head of department or curriculum
  • Head of year or phase
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £66,368 - £73,105

Assistant Vice Principal (English Specialism) job summary

We are seeking an exceptional, enthusiastic and ambitious leader to join our senior team as an Assistant Vice Principal, with a specialism in English. The successful candidate will be an experienced Leader of English, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality leadership and raising standards.

The successful candidate will be joining a very experienced team, the majority of whom have led the school on its journey with Ofsted, which saw the school secure its ‘Good’ judgement in September 2023. We are now the school of choice in the local area, with nearly all year groups full and holding a waiting list. Year on year, we now receive well over 400 applications for our 175 places in Year 7. We are honoured to be in this position, and it further galvanises our commitment to ensuring the highest quality education for our children. 

Hillside High School is a vibrant and exciting place to work and to learn. We all share the same commitment to our mission statement of ‘Excellence in the Heart of the Community’. This reflects our role serving the community of Bootle and North Liverpool, and our unrelenting ambition for excellence in all that we do. This excellence includes academic outcomes, our extremely high standards and expectations, and the exceptional pastoral care our students benefit from.

We are unrelenting in our ambition that students should leave us with the GCSEs they need to pursue their dreams and progress to suitably ambitious Post-16 opportunities.

We work tirelessly to ensure our provision is of the highest quality, and all lessons include the ‘I Do, We Do, You Do’ phases and a ‘Blue Zone’. We believe this is fundamental to our students achieving their best academically.

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive school, situated in the heart of the community. Our new Assistant Vice Principal must share our unrelenting drive to make a difference to the community we serve. Working at Hillside, you are truly making a difference to our children and their future life chances.

As an Assistant Vice Principal at Hillside High School, working within the Wade Deacon Trust, you will benefit from numerous opportunities within the Trust, for example the training and opportunity to be a Challenge Partners Reviewer, Trust Reviews and Quality Assurance activities. You will also benefit from the joint working across the schools, which is well embedded across the Trust at all levels, including many leadership development opportunities.

Key areas of responsibility will be aligned to the strengths of the successful candidate. The new Assistant Vice Principal will be given full support in their career development.

The Wade Deacon Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory medical clearance. 

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Hillside High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Hillside High School

• School type: Academies, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 741 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hillside High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hillside-high-school

Hillside High School is a warm and welcoming 11-16 school at the heart of the community of Bootle. Visitors often tell us that their first impression of the school is of a friendly, warm and stimulating learning community. They commend the good behaviours of the pupils and passion for learning. Hillside High School is a member of the Wade Deacon Trust

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