Deputy Principal

Bridge Academy, All-through Alternative Provision, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5DE

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Asap subject to appropriate checks

• Closing date

  11 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £75,049.00 - £82,654.00 Annually (FTE)

Deputy Principal job summary

Bridge Academy

We are seeking an inspiring, compassionate, and dedicated leader who is eager to make a genuine impact. The Deputy Principal will build strong, supportive relationships with staff, pupils, families, partner schools, agencies, and the wider community.

The Trust is committed to inclusivity and to enhancing opportunities for all our pupils. Bridge Academy is known for being a welcoming, supportive environment where pastoral care and personalised learning are central to our ethos. We are looking for a candidate who demonstrates unwavering commitment to student progress, brings creativity and innovation to their practice, and consistently reflects on how to improve outcomes for our young people.

Our children are encouraged to explore and discover through exciting learning opportunities. We provide a calm, safe and inclusive environment where positive behaviour and mutual respect is modelled. We are developing a broad and balanced curriculum to support the progress of children, whilst celebrating their uniqueness enabling each child to grow in confidence, resilience and self- worth. Our curriculum is built to stimulate participation and support their holistic wellbeing by ensuring each child has access to relevant learning challenges and opportunities to flourish.

About Bridge Academy All-Through Alternative Provision

Bridge Academy is a successful Alternative Provision across two sites—Coffee Hall and Manor Road in Bletchley—supporting children and young people aged 5 to 19. The Academy was judged Good by Ofsted in June 2024.

Bridge Academy offers opportunities to understand a child’s needs and build relationships whilst also supporting them to develop strategies and skills to become lifelong learners and active members of their communities.

The Deputy Principal will champion Bridge Academy’s vision, placing no ceiling on what our young people can achieve. This post is ideally suited to an aspiring Headteacher who is ready to lead a site under the guidance of experienced Alternative Provision leaders. We welcome applications from candidates who, having read the application pack, feel they have the necessary skills, experience, and strength of character to fulfil the challenges of the role. This would be ideally suited to someone who is keen to develop and grow within a forward-thinking Trust which places young people at the heart of all that it does.

Visits are welcomed and encouraged; these can be organised through HR. I wish you well in your application.

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

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 Bridge Academy, All-through Alternative Provision

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 19
• School size: 0 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bridge Academy, All-through Alternative Provision website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bridge-academy-all-through-alternative-provision

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