Assistant Head - 27.5
Prince William School, Oundle, Northamptonshire, PE8 4BS11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September
Closing date
23 March 2026 at 1:58pm
Date listed
11 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 66,368.00 - 73,105.00
Assistant Head - 27.5 job summary
We are seeking an exceptional and experienced senior leader to join us as Assistant Headteacher: Behaviour and Inclusion—someone who shares our belief that every young person deserves to feel safe, included and empowered to succeed. This is a pivotal role within our senior leadership team, offering the opportunity to shape whole‑school culture, strengthen inclusive practice and lead highly committed pastoral and behaviour teams. You will play a central part in sustaining our exemplary standards, driving strategic improvement and ensuring that every student experiences the calm, purposeful and aspirational environment they need to thrive. With strong staff wellbeing support, high‑quality professional development and the chance to make a profound, visible difference across our community, this is an exciting time to join Prince William School and help shape the future of our students. We welcome applicants who have proven experience of senior or executive level, whole school strategic leadership in pastoral, behaviour or SEND provision.
About EMAT
EMAT is an exciting, innovative, and growing organisation where we strive to do things differently, aligned with our core values and purpose: that every child deserves to be the best they can be. Our Trust was incorporated in July 2012 to establish, maintain, manage, and develop academies and free schools as world-class centres of excellence. We are a collaborative partnership that currently includes an all-through school in Northampton, a secondary school in Oundle, and five primary schools in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. By working for our Trust, you’ll be able to take advantage of a wealth of professional development and support opportunities, as well as a range of employee benefits.
These include:
- Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
- Career and leadership opportunities within our growing family of schools.
- A confidential 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- A corporate eye care plan.
- Flu jabs for all staff.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Access to health and wellbeing benefits, including an online GP.
- Access to an employee lifestyle savings platform.
- Generous family leave.
About the School
We are opening a new ARP based at Prince William School with a future capacity of 48 students with emotionally based school avoidance, a diagnosis of anxiety, and/or an ASD diagnosis who are engaging with external support or open to receiving clinical support. The young person’s profile will be one of emotionally based school avoidance who is finding it difficult to attend school. The APR is for students who will be aged 11-16. Our aim is to provide a physical and emotionally safe provision for our pupils, so that they feel able to improve their attendance from their previous setting(s). Our therapeutic led ARP will deliver an individualised offer for each pupil in a way that addresses individual barriers to learning so that pupils achieve well. Our ARP will provide a supportive environment underpinned by strong and respectful relationships between pupils, staff, and their families.
General Roles and Responsibilities:
Reduction in behaviour incidents and time lost to disruption (e.g., a 20% year‑on‑year reduction, focusing on repeat incidents).
· Improved student engagement and participation in enrichment, House and leadership activities (e.g., a 15% increase in participation rates).
· Improvements in progress and attainment for students receiving pastoral or behaviour interventions (e.g., a 10% improvement against baseline).
· Improved attendance and punctuality for targeted cohorts, including PA students, with clear termly milestones.
· Positive trends in student, staff and parent survey data relating to behaviour, safety, inclusion and wellbeing.
· Evidence of consistent implementation of routines, recognition and sanctions across all areas of the school.
· Maintenance of the current high levels of excellence in the mainstream and IP SEND provision.
For more information or an informal conversation, please contact hannah.fajemiyo@central.emat.uk
A Note for Recruitment Agencies
We have a team of internal recruiters, and we advertise our vacancies to attract candidates and not agency suppliers. If we need agency assistance, then we will reach out to our trusted partners. Any speculative CVs we receive will not be accepted as an introduction.
EMAT reserves the right to withdraw this advert early if a suitable candidate is found.
EMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). References will be taken up before interviews are offered.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, or age.
EMAT encourage a “Speak Up” culture where colleagues are encouraged to raise any concerns relating to risk or wrongdoing. You will be responsible for ensuring that colleagues are supported where necessary to raise concerns without blame or recrimination and should pro-actively raise concerns should they come to your attention.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Prince William School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1354 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Prince William School website
Welcome to Prince William School. Rated 'Good' by Ofsted, we are passionate about learning and providing a wide range of experiences for our young people to prepare them for the world beyond school. Our vision is to create an innovative learning environment which has all staff and students learning, developing and delivers the highest of expectations from ourselves and from each other.
At Prince William School we focus upon success. Success for learning. Success in competition. Success in our personal aims. This focus means that we achieve success in many areas including: school results, Duke of Edinburgh Awards, nationally recognised musicians, winning district, county and national sporting events and through being frequent competitors in activities such as the Economics literary papers judged at Eton, and the East Northants “Dragons Den” Competition. We also learn that although we aim to succeed, there are times when we might not. The key is to dust ourselves off and tackle the next challenge with the aim of succeeding next time.
We encourage our young people to ‘Dare to Dream’ through the setting of aspirational targets, recognising success in its many guises, through celebrations and in developing and promoting student leadership to encourage future students to do even better.
Our excellent year teams link the need to support young people through any difficulties and challenges in order to overcome barriers to learning and ensure the core purpose of learning and achievement is not forgotten.
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