Assistant Headteacher (Academic)

The Latymer School, London, N9 9TN

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2026 (We may consider May or September 2026 for the right candidate)

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  5 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: L13 (£73,708) - L17 (£80,884) Outer London
• Additional allowances:

  L13 (£73,708) - L17 (£80,884) Outer London

Assistant Headteacher (Academic) job summary

We wish to appoint a highly skilled and committed Assistant Headteacher Academic. Working closely with our Deputy Headteacher Academic, you will focus on ensuring we provide an enriching curriculum and that teaching and learning is of the highest standard. You may be an experienced Assistant Headteacher looking for a new challenge or you may be a successful middle leader ready to take your first step into senior leadership.

Our academic team consists of the Deputy Headteacher and Assistant Headteacher who work alongside the Heads of Department, the school’s Data Manager, and the timetabling team. Therefore, you are likely to have experience in some of the following areas: teaching and learning, staff professional development, curriculum and timetabling, or examinations and assessment.

As a selective state grammar school, our students achieve impressive outcomes placing us as one of the top state schools in the country for academic achievement. Our students progress onto a range of competitive destinations, including a high number of students achieving places at Oxbridge or on medical related courses.

However, we are not solely academic but are also driven by a desire to ensure we offer rich opportunities for personal development, including ones focused on building confident and considerate young people. Our school motto translates as ‘Who endeavours win’ which reflects our key values of hard work, dedication and grit. The successful candidate will have a firm grasp of how an established personal development and extracurricular programme can support academic success.

A further detailed job description and person specification is attached in the candidate pack.

Further details and The Latymer School can be found on the school website (www.latymer.co.uk): The Latymer School - Join our team. If, after reading the information, you are interested in joining us please create an account at MyNewTerm and apply.

The school also provides a range of well-being activities and facilities including good transport links, free parking, a cycle to work scheme, use of the fitness suite, Pilates at an affordable cost and even massages by a qualified masseuse. The school also runs a number of national and international trips, and we even have our own residential centre in a beautiful part of North Wales which staff also use. We value our staff and the importance of maintaining a healthy work life balance.

If you would like to join this hard-working, able, and effective team of committed teachers, we would love to hear from you.

The Latymer School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment is subject to a satisfactory ‘Enhanced with a Barred List Check’ through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

As part of our selection and appointment process, and in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, we are required to conduct online searches on all candidates in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.

The Latymer School is an equal opportunities employer.

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

The Latymer School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment is subject to a satisfactory ‘Enhanced with a Barred List Check’ through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Latymer School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1374 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Latymer School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-latymer-school

The Latymer School is a high achieving, but caring Grammar School in North London. Visitors comment on the warm atmosphere and the high levels of participation in extra-curricular activities. Pupils at the school recently described the school as one “family” and it being a “real community”. We are very proud of our school and believe it is a place where you can really teach and develop your subject knowledge.

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