Assistant Principal

Assistant Principal (Behaviour and Culture)

Contract : Permanent

Actual Salary:  L12 - L17 (£67,898 - £76,772) Start Date : January 2027 or sooner Are you seeking a leadership role that leads with vision, inspires with purpose and transforms lives through education? Broadoak Academy is seeking a dynamic and strategic leader to join our Senior Leadership Team as Assistant Principal (Behaviour and Culture). This is a key role in shaping and delivering an ambitious whole-school vision for inclusion, ensuring every student experiences equity, belonging and the opportunity to succeed. Within this role you will help lead the academy’s whole-school positive behaviour approach, ensuring that all students are supported to achieve positive social, emotional and behavioural outcomes. This will include developing and embedding our Behaviour and Culture beliefs, establishing clear and effective behaviour policies with consistent and predictable responses, and ensuring that high expectations, routines and protocols are understood and upheld by both students and staff across pastoral time, lessons, break and lunch. You will monitor and evaluate the quality of pastoral support and the teaching of our social, emotional and behaviour curriculum, identifying and implementing strategies for continual improvement. You will lead the evaluation of whole-school behaviour standards, ensuring a calm, orderly and purposeful environment, promoting positive attitudes to learning, and overseeing the effective deployment of Behaviour Support Officers to further strengthen student behaviour and engagement. We are looking for an individual with a track record in supporting school improvement, team development and raising attainment, and a deep commitment to inclusive education.

About Broadoak Academy:

Broadoak Academy is an ever-growing secondary school located in Weston-super-Mare and is quickly becoming the school of choice for parents in the town. We are very proud to be an Ofsted-rated ‘Good’ school. We have a strong sense of belonging and community, and as such, we work together to offer students a well-balanced, happy and successful education. Our community is assured of Broadoak’s pivotal role in their children’s education, wellbeing and futures. Why CLF? We are a diverse and inclusive community of 37 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others. We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. We particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the students we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion.

What we can offer you:

• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• Comprehensive induction and ongoing support for career development and wellbeing.
• Sector-leading professional development entitlement and opportunities.
• Collaboration with colleagues across the trust through subject communities and specialist networks.
• Shared CLF curriculum, written and curated by trust experts, reducing individual teacher workload.
• Career enhancing and progression opportunities within the trust and through the CLF Institute.
• A collaborative culture which supports workload.
• Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
• A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
• Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking and many more!

Recruitment timeline:

Academy tours*: Week commencing 28th September 2026 Closing date: 13 October 2026 @11.59pm Shortlisting date: 14 October 2026 Interviews**: 19 and 20 October 2026 *We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment. **This is a two-day process (a first full assessment day, with the final interview on day two). We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.

How to apply:

Please complete a full application form via the Eteach website. As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through the application form. Please note: there is a requirement on page 24 of the Candidate Information Pack for you to include requested information within the Supporting Statement section of the application form. This information will be reviewed during short-listing, as part of your application for this role. The Supporting Statement section does not allow anything over an 8,000-character limit - this is equivalent to 2/3 pages of text in Word, depending on spacing/formatting used. The application form will highlight how many characters you have used/if you reach the limit. Please also note that updates regarding an application, which could include an invite to interview, will be sent to the email address used when registering an account. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.