Assistant Principal - Behaviour and Attendance

We are seeking an exceptional Assistant Principal who is driven by a deep belief in the power of education to transform lives and opportunities. This is a rare opportunity for an inspiring and highly skilled leader to shape the culture, behaviour, and attendance across a thriving, diverse academy – ensuring every student feels valued, supported, and ready to excel. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will bring not only expertise and strategic clarity but also the passion, resilience and moral purpose needed to deliver meaningful change. If you are motivated by high expectations, committed to inclusive education, and ready to make a profound impact on students’ life chances, we would be excited to welcome your leadership and vision to our community.

Bournville School is a vibrant and diverse school. This is an exciting opportunity for a committed leader who wants to make a lasting difference across the whole-school community. Bournville School is built on traditional values. Pivotal to this is a positive ethos and culture of learning and success for all students. There is particular regard to outstanding achievement for all students, whatever their academic starting point, and a commitment to lifelong learning for all stakeholders. We believe that every child should leave school proud of the young adult they have become and that every youngster attending our Trust deserves the opportunity to thrive in an atmosphere where high expectation meets endless possibilities.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, manage, and have strategic oversight of the implementation of the school’s pastoral systems, ensuring continuous development and improvement in practices and outcomes

• Ensure that the vision, ethos and values relating to the expectations around student behaviour, attitudes and personal development are clearly communicated to all staff, students and parents and reinforced regularly

• Lead on strategic plans to improve attendance with measurable outcomes

• Maintain strategic oversight of student disciplinary processes and ensure thorough and accurate reporting

• Monitor the standard of pastoral care, behaviour for learning, and practices of staff and students and discuss progress and areas for improvement

At the Academy, we expect the Senior Leadership Team to be fully committed to:

• Comprehensive, community education within an urban, multi-cultural environment

• The inclusive values and framework of the Academy

• Working as a mutually supportive team, sharing responsibility, successes and challenges

• Exercising positive leadership and creating a shared vision of the purpose and future development of the Academy that reflects our ethos and aims

• Maintaining high personal and professional standards in all aspects of Academy life

• A consultative and participative approach to leadership and management

• Being forward-looking and anticipating change

• Responsibility for their own professional and leadership development

About us

At the heart of Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, Bournville School has been on a clear trajectory – making small daily steps that result in big changes. Located in the south of Birmingham, the Academy serves students from Reception to Year 11 from the wider community, many of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds. The school has a collective spirit and is committed to delivering an engaging curriculum, inspiring children to achieve and, ultimately, “enriching the lives and transforming the futures” of our young people.

Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust

At Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, we enrich lives and transform futures. Our four academies in and around Birmingham offer an outstanding quality of education, recognising that all our children are individuals and delivering exceptional pastoral care to ensure their happiness. Whilst we place strong emphasis on academic achievement, we take a holistic view of education and maintain exciting extracurricular programmes to create the well-rounded young adults of tomorrow. We’re also creating outstanding careers that could take you anywhere within our network – and take your future anywhere you want to go.

Benefits

When you join Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, you join a nurturing family where your professional satisfaction and personal happiness really count. You can expect heavy investment in your career development alongside an outstanding package of benefits, including:

• Educational support

• Flexi perks

• Salary sacrifice scheme

• Perkbox subscription

• Professional learning and regular training

• Counselling, Mental Health First Aiders and access to a Wellness Hub

• Wellbeing updates and stress management guidance

• Menopause awareness training

• Free flu jabs

• Access to fitness programmes, including yoga, HIIT and more

• Access to physical activities during our Trust-wide Wellbeing Week

• Diet and nutrition webinars

Closing date: 1.00pm on 15 May 2026.

Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: