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Assistant Principal - Full-time

Lift Bexleyheath, Bexleyheath

  • Ref:KCC303-4002-295L
  • Posted:09/05/2025
  • Pay:L12 - L16 (Outer London Weighting)
  • Start Date:September 2025
  • App Close Date:18/05/2025 at 23:45
  • Interviews:W/c 19th May 2025

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Salary: L12 - L16 (Outer London Weighting) + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (TPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits

Hours: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent 

Start date: September 2025

Are you an experienced leader with a strong commitment to inclusive education, high-impact interventions, and staff development?

Bexleyheath Academy, part of the LIFT Schools Trust, is seeking an exceptional Assistant Principal to lead on Inclusion, SEND, Reading, and EAL provision, student Intervention, and Staff Development across the academy. This is a vital leadership role for a strategic, compassionate, and driven individual committed to ensuring every student can thrive.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide strategic leadership for SEND, ensuring compliance and excellence in provision in line with the SEND Code of Practice.
  • Champion inclusion embedding a culture where every student feels supported, and empowered.
  • Oversee whole-school reading strategy, ensuring literacy is at the heart of our curriculum and intervention planning.
  • Lead targeted and evidence-based student interventions for those at risk of underachievement, including those with complex needs. 
  • Lead provision for EAL learners, enabling rapid language acquisition and full access to the curriculum.
  • Lead and develop whole-school staff development programmes that support inclusive teaching and literacy-focused pedagogy.
  • Line manage key inclusion staff including the SENCo and Reading Leads, and work closely with external agencies and families.

 The Ideal Candidate Will:

  • Be an experienced and ambitious middle or senior leader with a proven track record of improving outcomes for vulnerable learners.
  • Have deep understanding of the SEND Code of Practice, inclusive pedagogy, and literacy interventions.
  • Demonstrate commitment to staff development, building capacity across the school and modelling high-quality practice.
  • Be an inspirational communicator with a passion for collaboration, high standards, and a belief in every child’s potential.
  • Demonstrate a strong commitment to safeguarding and a whole-school approach to inclusion.

Should you wish to visit us in person then our doors are open to you at any time on any day. 

Please contact the Principals PA Lchan@bexleyheathacademy.org

 

The role is due to commence September 2025. This is a full time, permanent position.

Closing date: 18 May 2025

Interview date: w/b 19 May 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.  Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Information about the school

Lift Bexleyheath is a mixed secondary school in Bexleyheath, in the London Borough of Bexley and is a key member of Lift Schools, one of 57 schools created to provide thousands of students/pupils with the best possible education.

Our clear mission is to provide the very best lessons and learning experiences for all our students. Our values are focused around hard work and discipline, a culture of high expectation and belief in limitless possibilities to the students, staff and community of Bexleyheath underpinned by our six key drivers. We are an inclusive school, where we will instill confidence and self-belief. Our students deserve to go to a school which believes all children should have access to life changing opportunities and a wealth of extra curricular opportunities in a supportive and positive atmosphere.

Job Contact Information

  • Name:Naomi Wright
  • Address:Lift Bexleyheath, Woolwich Road, Bexleyheath, Kent, BA6 7DA
  • Telephone: 020 387 43094
  • Email: recruitment@liftschools.org
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.