Vice Principal – Behaviour & Inclusion

Solihull Alternative Provision Academy, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4LE

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  18 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £71,330.00 - £78,702.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership pay scale point 14 - 18

Vice Principal – Behaviour & Inclusion job summary

About us

Solihull Alternative Provision Multi Academy Trust offers a distinctive opportunity to spearhead educational reform at grass roots level. Our Trust is not just about education; it's about transformation. We're committed to revolutionising the educational landscape for our most vulnerable children, ensuring their journey towards success is nothing short of exceptional.

Due to the growth of Solihull Alternative Provision Academy, part of the Solihull Alternative Provision Multi Academy Trust (SAPMAT), we are looking for a highly motivated individual to join us in this exciting, brand-new role of Vice Principal - Behaviour and Inclusion.

About this role

This is a pivotal senior leadership role, responsible for ensuring that all pupils—particularly the most vulnerable—are supported to engage, attend, and succeed. The postholder will play a critical role in embedding a culture where behaviour is understood as communication, attendance is addressed through early, relational intervention, and inclusion is central to the academy’s core educational offer, not delivered as a parallel system.

The successful candidate should have:

• A deep moral commitment to inclusion and equity
• Proven experience of senior leadership within AP setting
• The emotional intelligence required to influence, challenge and support staff members with confidence and care
• Both strategic and operationally astute: able to design and evaluate systems, model exemplary relational practice, and hold high expectations for pupils
• Demonstrate resilience, integrity, and an unwavering belief that every young person can succeed when the right structures, relationships, and leadership are in place

In return, SAPMAT will offer you:

• The opportunity to lead a sector leading Behaviour & Inclusion model at a critical stage of development.
• A values driven, relational culture with strong Trust support.
• High levels of professional autonomy, influence and development.
• Continual professional development opportunities and progression routes.
• The opportunity to make a genuine, life changing difference for vulnerable young people

Please refer to the Recruitment Pack, Job Description & Person Specification for full details of this opening.

Please see full details of our Child Protection Policy / Safeguarding Policy / SAPMAT Charter.

Solihull Alternative Provision Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants, as well as two satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks. We are a socially inclusive and equal opportunities Trust, and we are committed to actively promoting equal opportunities for all our staff and pupils. As part of the recruitment process, we collect and process personal data relating to job applicants. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use this data, meeting Data Protection Regulations in line with GDPR compliance.

We provide all members of staff who join Solihull Alternative Provision Multi Academy Trust with a full induction programme.

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

Solihull Alternative Provision Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are a socially inclusive and equal opportunities academy and committed to actively promoting equal opportunities for all our staff and pupils.

We provide all members of staff who join Solihull Alternative Provision Multi Academy Trust with a full induction programme.

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 Solihull Alternative Provision Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 16
• School size: 61 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Solihull Alternative Provision Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/solihull-alternative-provision-academy

www.sa.solihull.sch.uk

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