Deputy Principal

Oasis Academy South Bank, London, SE1 7HS

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  25 March 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: L13 - L17 + inner London weighting

Deputy Principal job summary

Are you an exceptional leader ready for a new challenge?

Join our award-winning academy in central London and play a central role in shaping the next phase of our development. We’re looking for a high-performing all-rounder, who values a holistic approach to school leadership.

Oasis Academy South Bank is proud to be recognised as one of the highest‑performing schools in the country. We work hard to deliver excellent education and pride ourselves on outstanding academic outcomes, sector‑leading pastoral provision, and deeply relational culture. Our hard work has been recognised in our outstanding Ofsted rating in 2024 and award of Tes Secondary School of the year in 2025.

Working in partnership with the Principal, you will provide strategic leadership across all core areas of school improvement, including:

Teaching and learning

• Ensuring consistently excellent classroom practice
  
• Leading monitoring, evaluation, coaching, and intervention
  
• Driving high achievement through evidence‑informed practice
  

Behaviour, culture and safeguarding

• Sustaining our calm, purposeful, caring environment
  
• Maintaining rigorous safeguarding and pastoral systems
  
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, respect, and aspiration
  

Leadership and staff development

• Line managing staff and leading performance management
  
• Providing high‑quality coaching, guidance, and challenge
  
• Supporting whole‑school improvement and strategic planning
  

Curriculum, assessment and accountability

• Leading curriculum development and assessment strategy
  
• Ensuring impactful data use and targeted interventions
  
• Contributing to the academy’s development
  

Community and external partnerships

• Strengthening relationships with parents and carers
  
• Working closely with the Oasis Waterloo Hub and wider trust
  
• Enhancing the academy’s role within the local community
  

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is an exceptional practitioner with broad experience across Deputy Principal domains
  
• Inspires, motivates, challenges, and empowers staff and students
  
• Has strong analytical skills and uses data intelligently
  
• Models professionalism, ambition, and moral purpose
  
• Thrives in a values‑driven, high‑challenge, high‑support environment
  
• Believes wholeheartedly in the potential of every young person
  

Our offer to you:

• Highly supportive and collaborative senior leadership team
  
• Strong culture of inclusion, aspiration, and community impact
  
• Access to a national network of Oasis academies and leadership opportunities
  
• Students who are hard‑working, respectful, and eager to learn

Professional development and opportunities for specialisation

We’re committed to nurturing exceptional leaders and will tailor aspects of the role to support your professional interests and future aspirations.

If you have a particular area of interest, we will create structured opportunities for you to deepen your expertise. Where strengths and interests align, you may take strategic leadership of a specific whole‑school area, with mentoring and structured support from senior colleagues.

Whether you aspire to principalship or to becoming a sector‑leading specialist, we’re ready to invest in your growth and development.

How to apply

If you are an ambitious, values‑driven leader committed to transforming life chances, we would love to hear from you.

We encourage academy visits or informal conversations before you apply. Start your application to find out how to arrange this.

Closing date: 23:59, 25 March

Interviews: day 1: 15 April, day 2: 21 April

It is essential that all candidates are available to take part in both interview days. Further information will be provided to shortlisted candidates. 

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 Oasis Academy South Bank

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 709 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oasis Academy South Bank website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oasis-academy-south-bank

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