Deputy Principal
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, E16 2BB |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 76b32bf1-fa02-4938-80cd-8caf79f90a36 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
An exciting opportunity to join the team at Oasis Academy Silvertown
Oasis Academy Silvertown is looking to recruit a talented, humble and highly motivated leader to the key position of Deputy Principal to support the Principal, staff and our students as we work to ensure our students leave us ‘Ready for university, ready to lead’.
Are you passionate about the power of high aspirations for all young people, keen to learn, develop and grow yourself as a leader and ready to prioritise strong relationships in all of your work? Are you a highly successful and experienced senior leader, ready to take your next step towards Headship by moving in to a Deputy Principal role at a crucial period of change and improvement for the academy?
Oasis Academy Silvertown has been through considerable change and challenge in recent years. We are now just over a year in to our improvement journey, ensuring that we improve student outcomes through a focus on high aspirations, strong relationships and love for learning. Results improved in Summer 2025 but we have a lot of work to make the academy what we know it can be for our young people and to reach the outcomes that we know our students are capable of. We are now in our final period of expansion as we move towards full student capacity (600 students, September 2027).
This role will be pivotal in imagining, creating and leading improvement and change across the academy, ideal for an enthusiastic and dedicated school leader to step up in to a Deputy role.
What the school offers its staff
Our offer to you
We are seeking an exceptional leader who is looking for an opportunity to:
• Prepare for Headship through experience and training within this role
• Work with a newly formed, passionate, dedicated and supportive team developing a small and growing academy
• Work in a values-led organisation, focused on pursuing social justice and the excellent education that all of our students deserve
• Serve a diverse and aspirational community
• Be supported by a strong, national MAT with shared resources, subject and leadership networks and CPD
• Work in an academy that values its staff with smart policies that consider carefully how to enable them to flourish
Other benefits include
• The Oasis benefitspackage
• Cycle-to-work Incentive
• Healthcare Cash Plan Scheme
• Free eye tests
• Flexible working opportunities
• Integrated IT provision to support teaching, including your own laptop and iPad
Our academy
Oasis Academy Silvertown was planned and founded by the West Silvertown community who dreamed of having a local school which ensured both academic excellence as well as nurturing care for local children. After many years of discussions, plans and applications to the Department for Education, the academy opened in September 2014 in portacabins and finally moved into its permanent home in September 2022.
Our academy vision is to ensure that all of our students become ‘Ready for University, Ready to Lead’. We continue to be inspired by the original dreams that the community had for our school, creating an environment where we have high academic aspirations for every student as well as ensuring we support and challenge each child into growing and developing as a leader. Our small size means that every child is known by our staff and that we have a strong community feel where children want to learn and to behave well.
Application process
We strongly encourage interested applicants to visit the academy and to meet with the Principal prior to applying. In order to arrange a visit or a call, please contact Zaynab Kadir, PA to Principal
Commitment to safeguarding
Oasis Community Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check.
An exciting opportunity to join the team at Oasis Academy Silvertown
Oasis Academy Silvertown is looking to recruit a talented, humble and highly motivated leader to the key position of Deputy Principal to support the Principal, staff and our students as we work to ensure our students leave us ‘Ready for university, ready to lead’.
Are you passionate about the power of high aspirations for all young people, keen to learn, develop and grow yourself as a leader and ready to prioritise strong relationships in all of your work? Are you a highly successful and experienced senior leader, ready to take your next step towards Headship by moving in to a Deputy Principal role at a crucial period of change and improvement for the academy?
Oasis Academy Silvertown has been through considerable change and challenge in recent years. We are now just over a year in to our improvement journey, ensuring that we improve student outcomes through a focus on high aspirations, strong relationships and love for learning. Results improved in Summer 2025 but we have a lot of work to make the academy what we know it can be for our young people and to reach the outcomes that we know our students are capable of. We are now in our final period of expansion as we move towards full student capacity (600 students, September 2027).
This role will be pivotal in imagining, creating and leading improvement and change across the academy, ideal for an enthusiastic and dedicated school leader to step up in to a Deputy role.
What the school offers its staff
Our offer to you
We are seeking an exceptional leader who is looking for an opportunity to:
• Prepare for Headship through experience and training within this role
• Work with a newly formed, passionate, dedicated and supportive team developing a small and growing academy
• Work in a values-led organisation, focused on pursuing social justice and the excellent education that all of our students deserve
• Serve a diverse and aspirational community
• Be supported by a strong, national MAT with shared resources, subject and leadership networks and CPD
• Work in an academy that values its staff with smart policies that consider carefully how to enable them to flourish
Other benefits include
• The Oasis benefitspackage
• Cycle-to-work Incentive
• Healthcare Cash Plan Scheme
• Free eye tests
• Flexible working opportunities
• Integrated IT provision to support teaching, including your own laptop and iPad
Our academy
Oasis Academy Silvertown was planned and founded by the West Silvertown community who dreamed of having a local school which ensured both academic excellence as well as nurturing care for local children. After many years of discussions, plans and applications to the Department for Education, the academy opened in September 2014 in portacabins and finally moved into its permanent home in September 2022.
Our academy vision is to ensure that all of our students become ‘Ready for University, Ready to Lead’. We continue to be inspired by the original dreams that the community had for our school, creating an environment where we have high academic aspirations for every student as well as ensuring we support and challenge each child into growing and developing as a leader. Our small size means that every child is known by our staff and that we have a strong community feel where children want to learn and to behave well.
Application process
We strongly encourage interested applicants to visit the academy and to meet with the Principal prior to applying. In order to arrange a visit or a call, please contact Zaynab Kadir, PA to Principal
Commitment to safeguarding
Oasis Community Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check.