Assistant Principal
L11-L15 (£66,367- £73,106)
Permanent and Full Time
Start date: January 2026
At John Port Spencer Academy, we believe in unlocking the potential of every student and supporting them to achieve the very best. Every child has a champion - staff dedicated to nurturing their talents, ambitions, and wellbeing. Our university-style campus offers a vibrant, inspiring environment where curiosity thrives, and learning knows no bounds. Our values of joy, progress, success, and acting with care, kindness, respect, and integrity guide everything we do. Joining our team means becoming part of a collaborative, innovative community, passionate about making a real difference every day and supporting each other to grow professionally and personally.
John Port Spencer Academy is a thriving, forward-thinking school at the heart of our community, serving over 2,000 students from Year 7 through Sixth Form. Our university-style campus, with dedicated subject teaching spaces, specialist science labs, arts facilities, and extensive sports facilities, creates a wonderful environment for both students and staff. We offer a broad, ambitious curriculum designed to challenge students and help them excel academically, personally, and socially. Every student has a champion here - staff who guide, support, and celebrate their achievements. We have a strong community spirit and high expectations. For staff, John Port is a place to grow, collaborate, and contribute to something truly special, where everyone is encouraged and excellence is celebrated.
We are seeking to appoint an individual who is looking for the next step in their career to join us as an Assistant Principal leading on Behaviour. The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to engage and motivate students and staff. We are looking for a talented leader who is passionate about education and who wants to make a positive difference to both students and peers.
Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 18 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission
Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision
Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe:
* All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
* Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
* We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for students and staff.
If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact recruitment@johnportspencer.org.uk
Benefits: Generous Teachers Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured) and BHN extra (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). For full details, click here:
The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.
Closing date for applications: Monday, 29 September 2025
Interviews will take place on: Week commencing 6 October 2025
Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.
How to Apply
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Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).
The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.
Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer