20 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2026

  • Closing date

    2 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    13 May 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

54,394.00 - 60,145.00

Assistant Head Teacher 0.6 job summary

Assistant Headteacher

Required from September 2026

Part time 3 days per week

Fixed term Maternity Cover until 31st August 2027

Leadership Scale Points L3-L7

Salary £54,394 - £60,145 (pro rota)

Actual Salary £32,636 - £ 36,087

 

Whitegate Primary and Nursery School is seeking to appoint an inspirational leader to the post of Part Time – fixed term maternity cover Assistant Headteacher. We want to recruit people who are passionate about making a difference to children and want to challenge themselves to keep on improving. Our working relationships are positive, supportive and forward looking.

 

 You will:

•            Have the ability to identify and deliver outstanding teaching.

•            Have senior leadership experience within a primary school.

•            Be collaborative and inspirational leaders, with a strong ability to motivate and empower staff and children to achieve their full potential.

•            Care passionately about children and their development whilst still driving forward pupil progress and achievement.

•            Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build on and maintain strong relationships with staff, parents and carers, children, governors and the local and wider community.

•            Have the ability to lead on further improving teaching and learning and developing the wider curriculum, including a core subject.

 

In return we offer:

•            A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven

              towards continuously raising standards.

•            Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

•            Calm and purposeful learning environments

•            Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

•            A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

•            Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust


Or Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment.


How to apply

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

 

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website https://recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Trust/transformtrust.

 Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Any questions or queries should be directed to Andrew Forshaw at Whitegate Primary and Nursery School, Middlefell Way, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 9JQ Email:Andrew.forshaw@whitegate.nottingham.sch.uk Telephone: 01159152944

 

Closing date for applications: 2nd June 2026 at 12 noon

Interviews will be held on: Monday 15th June 2026


Transform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 9510 children in 27 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire. Joining us, you will be part of an ambitious and innovative organisation. We have a strong focus on empowering our member schools to drive their improvement journey whilst maintaining their own individual identity and community focus.

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our purpose is to be an innovative and inclusive Trust working for all children.

We are an employer that encourages flexible working and promotes wellbeing through workload considerations.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education
All school roles are classed as regulated activity and as such, it is an offence to apply to for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children

Applying for the job

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About Whitegate Primary and Nursery School

School type
Academies, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary school
School size
448 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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At Whitegate we are proud to be an inclusive school providing a high quality, creative and challenging education. Every child experiences a sense of enjoyment and achieves their full potential within a secure, caring and happy environment.

In short, every child that attends Whitegate will...
Enjoy, Achieve, Excel

Our Aims
The following 3 statements underpin everything that the school does:

A relentless focus on high standards.
There are NO BARRIERS or EXCUSES to great learning or achievement.
The street stops at the gate.

The driving force behind all that happens at Whitegate Primary and Nursery School is the shared aim of every child enjoying access to a stimulating and engaging education, developing both academically and socially and leaving us as life long, independent learners, who are prepared to play a positive role in society.

Whitegate Primary and Nursery School has a culture of high aspiration and expectation for each and every child, which enables our children to acquire knowledge, understanding and develop learning throughout the school. We are a school that strives to work in partnership with parents and families. We are open and transparent and we share information. We strive to create a learning community that extends beyond the perimeter of our site. We do everything we can to support families for the benefit of their children.

We aim to fully develop any interests or talents that our children have, through the provision of a broad curriculum which values all subjects, the Arts and Sports. We will aim to provide as many enrichment activities and activity clubs for pupils as we can.

We recognise that bullying can happen in any setting and have a zero tolerance approach to this. We have a clear Positive Relationships and Behaviour Policy that includes Anti-Bullying to which all staff and pupils sign up. Targets of bullying will be listened to and the behaviour of the bully will be addressed.

We maintain a Values Education Policy to underpin the above.

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