Assistant Head Teacher

Firwood High School, Bolton, Lancashire, BL2 4HU

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  27 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  31 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £65,286.00 - £72,162.00 Annually (Actual)

Assistant Head Teacher job summary

Are you able to:

Demonstrate and evidence that you are an outstanding leader of learning within the classroom and beyond?

Create and develop a culture that encompasses our vision “Learning without Limits”?

Network with the wider community developing links across Bolton and beyond?

Evidence that you can build and sustain excellent professional relationships with students, parents and carers, staff and other external partners?

Demonstrate a rigorous knowledge of safeguarding principals from both child and adult safeguarding frameworks?

Build on existing strong links with providers across Bolton and the wider locality?

Be solution focused, built on strong leadership pedagogy being both strategic in outlook and highly personable?

Maintain and build upon strong links across the school and be a dynamic member of our Senior Leadership Team?

To support and promote the wider ethos that is Woodbridge Trust?

Work collaboratively with our multi-disciplinary teams that include, health and social care.

If you can answer yes to all of these questions then we would like to invite you
apply for our post of Assistant Headteacher.

In return we will offer you:

A challenging yet rewarding working environment working with inspirational young people

Professional development to support you in your career

Hardworking, dedicated, professional and enthusiastic staff

The benefits of working in an innovative and forward thinking school

Supportive leadership and real opportunities to develop as a leader

A genuinely happy and caring place to work

Strong links with the community and our co-located Academy

High standard facilities

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Firwood High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• School size: 212 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Firwood High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/firwood-high-school-bolton

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