Assistant Headteacher
Wixams Academy, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 6BA2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L11-L16
What skills and experience we're looking for
Due to our continued growth, we are now seeking to appoint an exceptional Assistant Headteacher to join our school and to work within our dedicated and enthusiastic team.
Wixams is one of the most rapidly growing developments in the southern region, straddling the boundary of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough, and is characterised by beautiful open countryside, lakes, and an aspirational and vibrant close-knit community. Sitting just south of Bedford it has grown rapidly over the last 10 years.
At full capacity by 2030, Wixams Academy will be a Year 7-13 secondary school and sixth form, for 1750 students. We currently have pupils from Year 7-13 and we are adding forms of entry each year to meet local demand. The Academy building provides the community with excellent state-of-the-art facilities throughout with significant extensions and additional sports facilities opening in September 2024.
What the school offers its staff
We work closely with local primary schools including Lakeview, Wilstead and Wixams Tree Primary. Our collective aim is to create an outstanding educational offer for local families.
We are currently in the process of a voluntary merger with Knowledge Schools Trust and Wixams Academy and Wixams Tree Primary will join this larger Multi-Academy Trust in the Spring to create a hub in the region. This will not only create better career opportunities for our staff but will also enable us to work with other schools to share best-practice and innovation.
interviews to be held 21st / 22nd May 2025
All appointments are subject to safer recruitment and safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS clearance check, Prohibition from Teaching Checks and a Section 128 Direction Check (if applicable). KST is committed to the safeguarding of the children and young people in our care and actively promotes their welfare. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. KST is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from minority groups.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wixams Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 926 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wixams Academy website
- Email address
- c.bangar@ks-t.org
- Phone number
- 020 8600 0675
Arranging a visit to Wixams Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email c.bangar@ks-t.org.
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