Assistant Headteacher

The most important thing to us, is that we find the right person for our children, team and community. 

You will be passionate about making a difference and share our belief in the importance of relationships and our core values of: respect, inclusion and growth. 

You will want to work in a large, diverse, urban primary school and understand the wonderful and unique opportunities and challenges this can bring.

As a school we are proud of our excellent offer for leaders and our strong commitment to their personal and professional development.

The quality of this support has enabled previous Assistant Headteachers to successfully achieve their career aspirations of promotion into roles such as Deputy Headteacher, Headteacher, specialist consultants and Trust leads.

Our leadership development offer can be tailored to your specific strengths and areas for growth. The attached ‘Information about the post’ contains more detail but for all our Assistant Headteachers this offer includes:

• Opportunity to make a real difference to the provision and outcomes for 180 pupils in your phase – through leading and managing a team of 5+ teachers and wider support staff;
• Building a portfolio of evidence of your impact through implementation of whole school improvement projects across a three-form primary school;
• Support, coaching, mentoring and development from our:
• Headteacher – who is also an ILM Accredited Coach, People Management Expert for The Key, Associate Leadership Coach for One Education and experienced in school-to-school support for Headteachers and leadership teams;
• Deputy Headteacher – who is also a National College SEND Expert, SLE for Inclusion, SEND and Behaviour and experienced in school-to-school support for SEND and Inclusion;
• External professional supervision;
• Leadership coaching;
• Internal and external CPD – including through National Professional Qualifications, accredited courses, local networks / clusters, links with high-quality external professionals and bespoke opportunities to shadow and learn from specialists in a range of fields across teaching and learning and wider school leadership (such as governance, finance, HR and health and safety);

What we offer all our team

• The chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our children – the heart and highlight of our school community;
• The opportunity to contribute to a large, diverse, and vibrant primary school environment;
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing, clearly reflected in our daily practices, policies, systems, and support;
• An incredibly supportive and proactive governing body, fully engaged in school life;
• A collaborative and forward-thinking leadership team, with senior and middle leaders working within a distributed leadership model;
• A truly inclusive, warm, and welcoming staff team – including teachers, teaching assistants, admin, premises, cleaning, and lunchtime staff – all working together with shared purpose;
• A respectful, engaged parent and carer community, reflecting a rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

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