Assistant Head Teacher
Bracken Hill School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG17 7HZ16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
1 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Special Needs
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £53,602.00 - £59,167.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership Scale L4-L8
Assistant Head Teacher job summary
Job Title: Assistant Head Teacher
Location: Bracken Hill School
Grade/Scale: Leadership Scale L4-L8
Contract: 32.50 hours per week
Bracken Hill School is an all-age special school catering to pupils aged 4 to 18 years with a wide range of complex educational needs, including associated social, emotional, and behavioural challenges. We are proud of our inclusive and supportive environment where every child is valued and encouraged to achieve their full potential. The Head Teacher and Governing Body are seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic Assistant Head Teacher to join our committed and skilled staff team. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate leader who thrives on making a difference and is dedicated to improving outcomes for young people with complex needs. The ideal candidate will be: An outstanding classroom practitioner A confident and effective leader with excellent managerial and interpersonal skills who can inspire and motivate others Creative, enthusiastic, and innovative in their approach to teaching and learning A proactive problem-solver who seeks out development opportunities Deeply committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for pupils with complex and challenging needs Someone who brings positivity and a good sense of humour to their work We offer: A strong commitment to professional development and continuous learning A dedicated, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking staff team High expectations, shared values, and a positive school culture
Bracken Hill School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and identity verification.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation. Bracken Hill School is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
Please see the attached Application pack including a Welcome from The Head Teacher and more information about Bracken Hill School and Esteem MAT.
Please review the attached Job Description to learn more about the role and what we are looking for in the successful candidate.
Benefits Include:
- Teacher's Pension Scheme / LGPS Pension Scheme (16.6% employer contributions)
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Access to Westfield Health membership scheme including cashback schemes for health and retail benefits, discounted gym memberships, and free confidential advice.
- Access to National College CPD platform.
For further information, please contact Heidi Bonser (School Business Manager) on hbonser@brackenhill.notts.sch.uk
We reserve the right to interview suitable candidates upon application and may close the application process prior to this date
Esteem Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its students. We expect all staff, volunteers and agency staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status.
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 are not accepted.
About Bracken Hill School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- School size
- Up to 173 pupils
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bracken Hill School website
The school ethos should be felt as you walk around and meet the staff and pupils. We are a small school and therefore are able to prioritise the individual needs of each child. Nevertheless, we have high aspirations and expectations and particularly value co-operative, sharing and group work which represents developing social maturity in young people. Each class teacher has pastoral responsibility for their own class and will always endeavour to maintain good communications with home.
To enhance knowledge, develop skills and provide enriching experiences that enable young people to embrace opportunities and be successful in the modern world.
• We aim to provide a broad, interesting and accessible curriculum, including the National Curriculum, for all pupils.
• We aim to challenge each pupil to perform to the best of his/her ability.
• We aim to help each pupil develop the skills they need towards independent and responsible living.
• We aim to help meet each pupil’s personal priority needs alongside parents, carers and relevant agencies.
• We aim to provide pupils with a wide range of age appropriate experiences that helps to foster functional daily life resilience.
• We aim to help develop relationships characterised by kindness, helpfulness and respect.
• We aim to enable each pupil to confidently participate in, and contribute to, their local community life.
• We aim to foster knowledge and respect for other people, nationalities, beliefs and ways of life.
At Bracken Hill school, every individual is valued for who they are and what they contribute to the school. Values are intended to support the personal, social and spiritual development of every pupil throughout the school. Through these values we aim to:
• Promote positive behaviour, conduct and self-confidence by developing strong values within the pupils at the school.
• Develop pupils understanding of what values are and why they are important in life.
• Encourage children to ‘live the values’ in all aspects of their lives both in school and out.
• Promote values to pupils in every aspect of school life.
• Promote values in the way in which adults interact with each other and with pupils
• Display our school values and encourage all visitors to take account of them in their time in the school.
• Enable children to focus upon the positive aspects of themselves that they can value, thereby reminding them of their individual worth, their worth in the school and wider communities and the worth of those communities themselves.
Further information about our academy can be found on the website at:
https://www.brackenhillschool.co.uk/
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