Assistant Vice Principal

May Park Primary School, Bristol, BS5 6LE

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  1st September 2026

• Closing date

  21 May 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  21 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £61,534.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Scale Point 8

Assistant Vice Principal job summary

May Park Primary School is a diverse and inclusive school in the heart of Bristol. As part of our evolving leadership vision, we are seeking a passionate and visionary leader to join our senior leadership team in a key strategic role leading our Inclusion and SEND needs across the school.

As Assistant Vice Principal, you'll work in partnership with teaching staff, families, and external agencies ensuring all children's needs are met and the curriculum is accessible for all children.

This is a broad leadership role with no teaching responsibility, ideal for an experienced SENDCo wishing to gain further leadership experience as a step towards headship.

Key Responsibilities

To lead and manage the specialist provision team to meet the needs of the children

Lead the development and implementation of inclusivity

Ensure all statutory processes are completed

Ensure SEND Provision meets the needs of all SEN children (45% SEND across the school with 18% of children with EHCP)

To support the Headteacher in all aspects of school leadership

Ideal Candidate:

An outstanding and experienced SENCO with NASENCo qualification and knowledge of SEND Legislation looking for a further leadership role

Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to inspire others through positive leadership

Be able to reflect on your work and excel at innovating and creating new solutions

Please refer to the Job Description document attached see the Person Specification for this role.

The successful candidate will be focused on improving the life chances of all SEND pupils, bringing a passionate and inspirational outlook to the role. You will be a strategic thinker, able to create and implement a strategy for SEND across the entire school

If you are ready to take the next step in your leadership journey and champion inclusion at Compass Point Primary, we would love to hear from you.

Safeguarding Statement

Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community. The aims of the Trust’s recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.

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 May Park Primary School

• School type: Academies, Does not apply, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 468 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: May Park Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/may-park-primary-school-bristol

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