Principal

Future Academies, London, SW1V 3AT

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  13 October 2025 at 9:59am

• Date listed

  24 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 67898.00 - 75050.00

Principal job summary

Ashtree Primary Academy is seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as its next Principal. As the educational leader of the school, the Principal will guide staff and students toward academic success, community engagement, and holistic development in a collaborative and inclusive environment. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in leading the school forward into the next stage of its development, building on the strong foundation and values already in place.

About us:

We are Future Academies: a flourishing multi-academy trust, founded with the aim of improving the life chances and raising the aspirations of young people. We offer a rich and stimulating education comprised of a knowledge-rich curriculum, diverse cultural and extracurricular opportunities, and a strong pastoral support system. All children and young people are welcomed in our inclusive community, and all are challenged to be the best they can be. This ethos is embodied in our Trust values -Knowledge, Aspiration, and Respect - and in our motto, libertas per cultum (“freedom through education”).

Key responsibilities, include:

• Leading strategically by contributing to the trust’s vision and implementing it within the local context of the academy.
• Leading the school , its staff and pupils to excellence.
• Acting as the model for excellence across every function of the school.
• Ensuring the advancement and elevation of life chances for the young people in our care.
• Working collaboratively and in partnership with colleagues from the central team to realise the ambition of trustees and the executive team.
• The recruitment, training, and retention of highly qualified staff.

Staff benefits: Future Academies recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success. To demonstrate this all staff are offered the following benefits:

• A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues.
• Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression.
• Employer Contributions to Local Government or Teachers Pension Scheme.
• Mintago – access to numerous cost saving employee benefits including fantastic cost savings on childcare.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to a Virtual GP

Should you wish to visit the school prior to submitting your application, please email HRenquiries@futureacademies.org and a member of the central HR team will coordinate a visit for you.

Alternatively, should you wish to have a confidential discussion about the role, you can email HR who will gladly coordinate this for you, or you can contact Oliver Wimborne, Director of Education directly via email - oliver.wimborne@futureacademies.org.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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 Future Academies

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/future-academies

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