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Assistant Headteacher - Behaviour and Culture
Wollaston School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN29 7PHThis job expired on 25 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
25 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
9 June 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
Full-time equivalent salary
- £63,815.00 - £70,293.00 (Leadership 11 - 15) DOE
What skills and experience we're looking for
Wollaston School rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted May 2023
Assistant Headteacher - Behaviour & Culture (Required For January 2026 —Permanent Position—L11 to L15)
Following the promotion of the previous post holder, this is an exciting opportunity to lead the school to secure exceptional standards of behaviour from every student, regardless of their background or circumstance. This will be achieved through a relentless focus on our core values of Kindness, Community and Ambition—making these a lived reality and “baked in” to everything that we do as a school.
We already have a positive community of committed staff, students and parents and we share an aspiration for even further success. This is an excellent opportunity to achieve something incredibly special, as you define and create a culture which empowers students to realise their dreams through meaningful engagement with every aspect of school life.
Wollaston School enjoys an excellent local reputation and was judged to be ‘Good’ at its most recent inspection. Our students achieve well in public examinations with record breaking years both pre and post pandemic. We are oversubscribed in applications to join our Year 7 and have a successful Sixth Form which attracts an increasing number of external candidates. We are committed to providing a genuine breadth of curriculum which inspires children of all abilities and interests.
We are naturally very proud of our achievements, but are ambitious to become even better. We are aiming to recruit a person who will help to make Wollaston a truly exceptional school. A school where every single student who walks through our doors behaves in a way which adds value to our school, because they feel belonging, happiness and fulfilment.
What the school offers its staff
Informal visits are welcomed if you would like to see us in action and to learn more about us prior to your application. Full details on the recruitment timeline are included within the application pack.
Closing date for receipt of applications: Midday on Wednesday 25th June 2025
Interviews are to be held on : Wednesday 2nd July 2025
Please contact our HR department for the application pack, further details about this role or to arrange a visit on: recruitment@wollaston-school.net Alternatively you can download details directly from the school website at: www.wollastonschool.com
Wollaston School follows a safer recruitment process. The appointment to this post will be subject to suitable references and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Further information about the job
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wollaston School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1431 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wollaston School website
- Email address
- ridgek@wollaston-school.net
Wollaston School is a large, rural community school located in a village setting about 15 minutes drive from Northampton. The student intake draws on nearby villages and the towns of Earls Barton, Wellingborough, and Irchester. We have over 1400 students on roll with approximately 240 students in the Sixth Form. The school is over-subscribed. Wollaston School was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2023.
We are a school that takes great pride in our central purpose - to prepare every student for success. Success in academic qualifications, success in a wide range of extra-curricular and leadership activities and success in every individual’s personal and social development. We work towards this mission through a focus on exceptional levels of pastoral support and an academic and enrichment programme designed to ensure that every individual reaches their true potential.
At Wollaston, we believe in aiming high. We target excellence with the utmost commitment, but we also remember that a truly inspiring education is one that is filled with joy, laughter and happiness. We are also a school that is led by our values. We value honesty, kindness and tolerance. We embrace individuality as well as collective responsibility, we celebrate diversity, promote equality of opportunity, and we are a community which supports every individual to achieve all that they are capable of.
For most students, Wollaston School provides an education which lasts for seven years, from age 11 to age 18. Our ambition is to ensure that at the end of that journey, every student is ready to take their place in society as positive, purposeful, ethical and well qualified individuals.
Life at Wollaston School is characterised by an ethos of warmth, respect and ambition. We value effective working relationships with parents and we believe in delivering a high quality professional service in every aspect of our work. We offer a broad and exciting curriculum, expert teaching and high standards of academic achievement. We promote impeccable standards of behaviour and we expect the very best of every individual who walks through our doors. We are a team of staff and students who are committed to ensuring that our school is a truly exceptional place of learning.
Arranging a visit to Wollaston School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ridgek@wollaston-school.net.
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