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  • Start date details

    January 2026

  • Closing date

    2 October 2025 at 1pm

  • Date listed

    19 September 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

L4-L8

Additional allowances

L4-L8

UKS2 Assistant Principal (Maternity Cover) job summary

UKS2 Assistant Principal (with teaching responsibility in Y5 or Y6) - One Year Fixed Term - Maternity Cover

We are excited to announce the above vacancy.

Here at LaceyField, our aim is to create the conditions in which all children, families and staff can become the best version of themselves; achieving optimum happiness and success for life. We are ‘Busy Being Brilliant’ and we do this using our bee-haviours for learning; be kind, be brave, be in charge of me, be grateful, be curious and be on the team.

Does this sound like a place that you want to be part of? Are you ready to take on a new and exciting opportunity to support our children and enable them to become th best version of themselves? If so, then I invite you to join the team at LaceyField, the home of Eastfield Nursery and Infant Academy and Lacey Gardens Junior Academy.

If your intrigue has been sparked and this message resonates with you, then I welcome you to apply. Please visit our website and the Wellspring Trust website for further information. Please get in touch using the details below and good luck with your application.

As the Executive Principal, I am passionate about delivering our promise to enable everyone to become the best version of themselves. To achieve optimum happiness and success in life. We promise to do what is right for staff so that they are empowered, educated, enthused and well enough to do what is right for our tiny humans so that they can be the best version of themselves. This is an extremely exciting opportunity for someone who agrees that lunch time is an integral part of a child’s school day; for someone who truly wants to make a difference for the children, families and staff that they serve.

Emma Lawton

Executive Principal



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.

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About Lacey Gardens Junior Academy

School type
Academy, ages 7 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
315 pupils enrolled
Age range
7 to 11
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