Deputy Principal
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Job Summary
Are you an exceptional leader ready for a new challenge
Join our award-winning academy in central London and play a central role in shaping the next phase of our development. Were looking for a high-performing all-rounder who values a holistic approach to school leadership.
Oasis Academy South Bank is proud to be recognised as one of the highestperforming schools in the country. We work hard to deliver excellent education and pride ourselves on outstanding academic outcomes sectorleading pastoral provision and deeply relational culture. Our hard work has been recognised in our outstanding Ofsted rating in 2024 and award of Tes Secondary School of the year in 2025.
Working in partnership with the Principal you will provide strategic leadership across all core areas of school improvement including:
Teaching and learning
- Ensuring consistently excellent classroom practice
- Leading monitoring evaluation coaching and intervention
- Driving high achievement through evidenceinformed practice
Behaviour culture and safeguarding
- Sustaining our calm purposeful caring environment
- Maintaining rigorous safeguarding and pastoral systems
- Promoting a culture of inclusion respect and aspiration
Leadership and staff development
- Line managing staff and leading performance management
- Providing highquality coaching guidance and challenge
- Supporting wholeschool improvement and strategic planning
Curriculum assessment and accountability
- Leading curriculum development and assessment strategy
- Ensuring impactful data use and targeted interventions
- Contributing to the academys development
Community and external partnerships
- Strengthening relationships with parents and carers
- Working closely with the Oasis Waterloo Hub and wider trust
- Enhancing the academys role within the local community
Were looking for someone who:
- Is an exceptional practitioner with broad experience across Deputy Principal domains
- Inspires motivates challenges and empowers staff and students
- Has strong analytical skills and uses data intelligently
- Models professionalism ambition and moral purpose
- Thrives in a valuesdriven highchallenge highsupport environment
- Believes wholeheartedly in the potential of every young person
Our offer to you:
- Highly supportive and collaborative senior leadership team
- Strong culture of inclusion aspiration and community impact
- Access to a national network of Oasis academies and leadership opportunities
- Students who are hardworking respectful and eager to learn
Professional development and opportunities for specialisation
Were committed to nurturing exceptional leaders and will tailor aspects of the role to support your professional interests and future aspirations.
If you have a particular area of interest we will create structured opportunities for you to deepen your expertise. Where strengths and interests align you may take strategic leadership of a specific wholeschool area with mentoring and structured support from senior colleagues.
Whether you aspire to principalship or to becoming a sectorleading specialist were ready to invest in your growth and development.
How to apply
If you are an ambitious valuesdriven leader committed to transforming life chances we would love to hear from you.
We encourage academy visits or informal conversations before you apply. Start your application to find out how to arrange this.
Closing date: 23:59 25 March
Interviews: day 1: 15 April day 2: 21 April
It is essential that all candidates are available to take part in both interview days. Further information will be provided to shortlisted candidates.
