Vice Principal - Inclusion

More than one location, Archway Learning Trust

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  23 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 January 2026

Important

This teaching role is at more than one school in the trust. You can find out more in schools overview.

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: From £76,772 - £84,699 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the school’s strategic vision for inclusion, behaviour, and attendance in line with whole-school improvement priorities.
• Develop and implement policies and practices that promote an inclusive and aspirational culture across the school.
• Work as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to drive continuous improvement in standards, culture, and provision for all learners.
• Use data strategically to monitor, evaluate, and improve outcomes for all pupil groups.
• Having strategic oversight of Personal Development within the school including RHSE, Careers, Student Leadership, Enrichment and Character Development

Behaviour and Attendance

• Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of the school’s Behaviour for Learning policy to ensure consistency and high expectations.
• Oversee systems for monitoring attendance and punctuality, ensuring interventions are timely, effective, and lead to measurable improvement.
• Support staff in managing behaviour effectively specifically in classrooms but also around the building through professional development, coaching, and modelling best practice.
• Work with families, external agencies, and pastoral teams to reduce persistent absence and suspensions.

Inclusion and Pupil Groups

• Oversee provision for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in collaboration with the SENDCo.
• Champion the needs and outcomes of disadvantaged students, including those in receipt of Pupil Premium and ensure the schools strategic plan and implementation is fit for purpose and impactful.
• Work alongside SLT to embed strategies to close attainment and progress gaps for identified groups, including low, middle, and high attaining students.
• Ensure high-quality interventions and teaching strategies are in place, evaluated for impact, and aligned with school priorities.

Leadership of People and Systems

• Line manage key staff including the Assistant Principals within the Inclusion Team.
• Line manage the SENDCo and or/key academic or pastoral departments.
• Develop a culture of professional growth, collaboration, and accountability within all teams under your leadership.
• Oversee the effective use of funding streams (e.g., Pupil Premium, Catch-Up, SEN) to ensure maximum impact on student outcomes.
• Lead on staff training and development related to behaviour management, inclusion, and supporting diverse learner needs.

Safeguarding and Welfare

• Work closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead to ensure safeguarding practices are robust and integrated within behaviour and attendance systems.
• Promote a safe, supportive, and respectful school environment where all pupils feel valued and heard.

Community and Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop positive relationships with parents, carers, and external partners to support pupil welfare, attendance, and engagement.
• Represent the school at meetings and forums relating to inclusion, behaviour, and attendance.

What the school offers its staff

- Acceptable Use of IT Policy

- Code of Conduct

- Extremism & Radicalisation Policy

- Health, Safety and Security Policy & Guidance

- Keeping Children Safe in Education (Part 1) Guidance

- Safeguarding Policy and Training Slides

- Whistleblowing Policy

- IT Pack including Acceptable Use Statement

- Health, Wellbeing and Benefits Policy

- Finance Policy

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

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Archway Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/archway-learning-trust

School Details

The Long Eaton School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1088 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Long Eaton School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-long-eaton-school-nottingham

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