Primary Assistant Principal
Krishna Avanti Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 6HN3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
August 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further information
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L3 - L7
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
At Krishna Avanti Primary School, Leicester, we are seeking to appoint a committed and experienced Primary Assistant Principal to become a key member of our Senior Leadership Team and play a central role in our continued success and growth.
This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with the Principal to lead on teaching and learning, inclusion, and pastoral care, while also contributing to whole-school strategy and operational leadership. You will be expected to take an active role in shaping the school’s future, inspiring both staff and pupils, and ensuring excellence in every area of school life.
As a school rooted in the Avanti ethos, our work is guided by values of respect, integrity, self-discipline, and spiritual wisdom. We are proud to nurture not just academic achievement, but the personal and character development of every child.
We are looking for a leader who is reflective and ready to work collaboratively to make a real difference. If you are excited by the chance to lead within a nurturing, ambitious and values-led school, we look forward to hearing from you.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Support the Principal in all aspects of school leadership, including safeguarding, teaching and learning, and inclusive education across all key groups.
- Lead and manage designated teams, subject areas, and key initiatives, supporting staff through coaching, appraisal, and professional development.
- Promote a culture of high expectations and respectful behaviour, serving as a role model and upholding the school’s values in every aspect of school life.
- Oversee operational responsibilities such as duty teams, behaviour systems, budget management, and parental/community engagement.
What are we looking for?
- The ability to lead and manage the school team effectively and efficiently and work with other professionals and agencies
- QTS qualified
- Has up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with, and the protection of, children and young people
- How to plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate lessons and learning as part of the school curriculum
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Krishna Avanti Primary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school that provides a warm, friendly and engaging learning environment for children from all backgrounds and walks of life. Staff and students at the school do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none.
The staff at Krishna Avanti Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities of all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our students to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment for our students and we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all students enjoy learning and surpass expectations.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further details about the role
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
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 Krishna Avanti Primary School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 431 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Krishna Avanti Primary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Krishna Avanti Primary School is a Hindu-faith Free School for boys and girls that opened in September 2011. We are at full capacity with 420 pupils.
The school is set in 5 acres of land, on Spencefield Lane in Leicester, in Evington Hall. The Grade 2 listed building was built for the High Sheriff of Leicester and was also once a Catholic Convent. The main house has great character with beautiful features including an extraordinary library area. It is set in tranquil grounds making this a wonderful site for an excellent learning environment for all children of any faith and background and providing a spacious learning environment both indoors and outdoors.
Krishna Avanti Primary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school that provides a warm, friendly and engaging learning environment for children from all backgrounds and walks of life. Staff and students at the school do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none.
The staff at Krishna Avanti Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our students to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment for our students and we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all students enjoy learning and surpass expectations.
Arranging a visit to Krishna Avanti Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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