The BUSY School is seeking an experienced and passionateAssistant Principalto join our Cleveland campus. This is an opportunity to play a key leadership role in a purpose-driven school environment, supporting young people who have disengaged from mainstream education to re-engage, complete their schooling, and build meaningful futures.

About The BUSY School

The BUSY School is part of The BUSY Group, a not-for-profit organisation presenting nearly 50 years as a community partner providing employment services, vocational education and training, apprenticeships, mentoring, Inclusive Employment Support, and allied health services.

We are a growing independent Special Assistance School with 10 campuses across Queensland and New Zealand, providing an alternative program for Year 11 and 12 students who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging from education.

Each campus provides a supportive, safe learning environment and unique education model combining:

- Individualised education and wellbeing support
- Vocational Education and Training (VET)
- Real-world work experience opportunities
- School-based apprenticeships and traineeships
- Career pathway planning and employment connections

Our team works alongside students to provide wrap around support that helps them complete their secondary schooling, achieve their goals and transition successfully into employment, further training or higher education.

About this Opportunity

The Assistant Principal, Cleveland Campus plays a key leadership role in supporting the Campus Principal with the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the campus.

Working collaboratively with students, families, staff, Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), trainers and employers, the Assistant Principal helps drive student engagement, attendance, course completion and successful pathway outcomes.

Focused on fostering a positive, inclusive and student-centred workplace, the role supports the wellbeing,



pastoral and behavioural needs of students while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across the campus. In partnership with the Campus Principal, the Assistant Principal develops and implements strategies that maximise student engagement, participation and success. This is a permanent full-time position.

Key Focus Areas

- Promoting, developing and protecting the vision, mission and core values of The BUSY Schools.
- Collaboratingwith the Campus Principal to create a positive culture of high expectations, ensuring effective, evidence-informed teaching practices that enable student engagement, improvement, achievement and wellbeing to thrive.
- Managingand communicatingday to day events through calendars and notices.
- Organisingsupervisions when staff are absent to ensure they provide a suitable program for students, including rostering oneself for supervisions before engaging a relief teacher. Organise and supervise relief teachers.
- Collaboratingwith the Curriculum Coordinator to provide written reports of student progress each semester.

Why Join The BUSY School?

- Career growth opportunities across our expanding school network
- Dedicated funding for professional development and leadership development
- Up to $18,550 in tax-effective salary packaging benefits
- 6 weeks annual leave
- 12.5% superannuation
- Fitness Passport and employee discount program
- Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing initiatives

About You

To be successful, you will have:

- Current teacher registration (or eligibility to obtain registration).
- Demonstrated leadership experience in a secondary school setting.
- A passion for supporting young people to overcome barriers and achieve success.
- Strong understanding of teaching, learning, curriculum and student achievement practices.
- Experience leading, mentoring and developing staff.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong organisational, planning and problem-solving abilities.
- A student-centred and trauma-informed approach, with a belief in the potential of every young person.

This role will actively commence recruitment from the date of advertisement. The closing d

📌 Assistant Principal (Brisbane)
🏢 The BUSY Group
📍 Brisbane