Assistant Headteacher – Behaviour and Attendance
King Alfred's, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9BY13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
25 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 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 (FTE) L12 - L16
Assistant Headteacher – Behaviour and Attendance job summary
King Alfred’s Academy is seeking to appoint a dynamic Assistant Headteacher responsible for leading attendance and behaviour at either KS3 or KS4. They will play a central role in establishing a deeply effective ethos of respect and participation across our large and successful Academy and in promoting a strong sense of belonging across our organisation.
The appointment is an excellent opportunity for an inspirational leader who can model and demonstrate the key values and attributes of leadership at King Alfred’s:
- Courage, conviction and creativity to achieve the best outcomes for all students
- Positive, enthusiastic outlook, creating and embracing opportunities and solutions
- Drive for improvement, sharing good practice and research with a focus on development.
- Address underperformance through support challenges and constructive conversations.
- Visible and proactive presence around the school, engaging with students and staff to support positive behaviour.
- Effective communication and listening skills, influencing and inspiring individuals, teams and groups. Demonstrates the desire to hold others to account with professional warmth and honesty
- The capacity to model effectively our core principles of: Respect, Responsibility, Tolerance, Knowledge, Curiosity and Resilience
- Advocacy for equality, diversity and inclusion for students and staff
- Integrity and consistency in relation to your own behaviours and the school's practice
- The capacity to strategically develop teams, supporting career progression and succession planning
- Collaborative partnership working, within and beyond the school
- Leading learning as a reflective practitioner committed to continued professional development
- The ability to work as part of a highly effective wider leadership team, undertaking the generic responsibilities of members of the Leadership Team and delivering key aspects of the Academy Improvement Plan
King Alfred's Academy, Wantage, is easily commutable from Oxford, Swindon, Newbury, Abingdon and Didcot.
The successful applicant will be committed to securing the best outcomes for all students within the Academy, as well as being part of the wider curriculum offered to all students. We are looking for someone to inspire our students and promote a love for this subject both in and out of the classroom.
King Alfred’s Academy is a friendly, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice. Rated “Good” by Ofsted, our mission statement is "Opportunity for All"; something we believe in passionately and strive to deliver to our staff and students each day.
Benefits of working at KAA include:
- Full support for your professional development and future training needs (CPD)
- A commitment to recognise previous, continuous service.
- A commitment to offer flexible working whenever we can, and to support the work-life balance of our employees
- A 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- A Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Opportunity to attend school residential trips such as Normandy or Barcelona, to skiing in Austria, Canada and USA
- Complimentary fruit, tea and coffee and subsidized lunches
- Eligible for Blue Light discount card
- Optional gift on your birthday
- Free parking
- Free Eye Care Voucher
King Alfred’s is proud to be part of the Cambrian Learning Trust, a network of schools nurturing opportunities and career development. Collaboration is an important benefit of working at King Alfred’s, with students and staff benefitting from our work with Trust schools and other schools locally and regionally.
Visits - We invite any prospective candidates for a tour of the school and meet Jonathan Smart, Headteacher, on Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th or Wednesday 19th March. Please contact the school via kahr@kas.cambrianlt.org to book an appointment.
Cambrian Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
King Alfred’s Academy and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
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 King Alfred's
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1682 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King Alfred's website
King Alfred’s is a learning community with a passionate, talented and dedicated staff, new and refurbished learning spaces for 21st century learning, the offer of an outstanding sixth form ranked amongst the best in the country, and a wealth of extra-curricular trips, visits and activities for students to enjoy as part of their wider learning outside the classroom.
Furthermore, King Alfred’s has an enviable reputation for providing outstanding quality and breadth of pastoral care to all students through an experienced and dedicated team of pastoral staff and student managers.
This enables students to develop as individuals with confidence and well-being throughout their school career. This strength of King Alfred’s was, quite rightly, recognised by inspectors in the recent Ofsted inspection when inspectors noted that: ‘Pupils’ welfare and safety has the highest priority. Personal, social and health education plays a key part in ensuring that pupils are happy, safe and very well cared for.’
Most importantly, for pupils making the transition from Year 6 to secondary education, West Site offers a bright, welcoming campus where they can make the change safely and happily into secondary education. The advantage of the bespoke KS3 site is that it offers a unique environment for them to make new friends, get to know a dedicated team of tutors and teachers, and adjust to the new phase of their educational lives. It is an environment in which our core values of Responsibility, Respect, Tolerance, Courage and Determination will be seen, experienced and lived consistently every day.
What is very evident throughout the school, is the impressive spirit and desire amongst the governors and staff to ensure that King Alfred’s Academy continues to grow and flourish to become the outstanding school of choice for the local community and beyond and that we truly can offer "Opportunity for All".
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