Assistant Head - Inclusion Lead
Northwick Manor Primary School, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR3 7EA8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
2 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £52,301 - £54,938
Pay scale
- L3-L5
What skills and experience we're looking for
Northwick Manor Primary School is currently seeking to appoint an experienced and passionate Assistant Head who can be our Inclusion Lead and with that be an important part of our leadership team from September 2025. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing our inclusion strategy, supporting pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and ensuring that all pupils have access to high-quality education.
As a member of the leadership team, the Assistant Head Teacher will play a major role in formulating the culture, vision, aims and objectives of the school, establishing the policies through which they shall be achieved, managing staff and resources to achieve the aims and objectives and monitor and evaluate progress towards their achievement.
Collaborating with a diverse team of teaching and support staff, effective communication is crucial. The Assistant Head must naturally foster a positive team spirit. An approachable and empathetic leadership style is essential in contributing to an encouraging atmosphere for both pupils and colleagues at Northwick.
What the school offers its staff
We offer a range of benefits to enhance our work environment and support the professional and personal growth of our staff.
Our focus is on work-life balance with policies like no work communication outside working hours, a “Time for You” day, and reasonable release time for significant personal events. Additional benefits include protected professional learning time and a clear professional development pathway for every role.
We believe that collaboration and our staff wellbeing focus is at the heart of our success.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to mgiddings@riverscofe.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Northwick Manor Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 600 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Northwick Manor Primary School website
- Email address
- mgiddings@riverscofe.co.uk
Northwick Manor is a large primary school situated in the north of Worcester. It has 95 staff and 635 pupils aged 4 to 11 years old. It has a positive reputation and strong foundations in place, being judged as Outstanding by Ofsted in July 2022.
The schools experienced and enthusiastic staff have high standards for behaviour and place great emphasis on high expectations for pupils. Northwick Manor has a strong track record in preparing pupils exceptionally well for secondary school.
The school has extensive grounds, excellent facilities and beyond the inspiring curriculum, there is an extensive range of enrichment opportunities.
The school benefits from highly supportive parents/carers and highly effective governance.
Northwick Manor Primary School is proudly part of the Rivers CofE Academy Trust, a family of schools with a shared vision to ensure our pupils’ value education and become lifelong learners as encapsulated in our vision ‘love, learn, live’.
Arranging a visit to Northwick Manor Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mgiddings@riverscofe.co.uk.
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