Assistant HeadTeacher : Behaviour and Personal Development

Mount Tamar School, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 2EF

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026, sooner if available - pending pre-employment checks

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £63,118.00 - £67,903.00 Annually (Actual)

Assistant HeadTeacher : Behaviour and Personal Development job summary

Mount Tamar has a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, with about 110 pupils on roll from many different Local Authorities in the South West.

The school caters for young people aged 4 to 16 years who, for a variety of reasons, find it difficult to be successful within mainstream schools as full-time pupils. We specialise in supporting students with social and emotional difficulties, attachment and autism.

The school manages a small number of satellite centres across Plymouth to meet individual students' academic and social needs. We strive to provide the very best educational experience so that all our students can reach their full potential, as they become responsible and proactive members of the community.

We are a friendly and caring community that firmly believes in treating each young person as an individual and providing them with the skills and tools they need to be a success. Mount Tamar School offers a quality-learning environment with all students being supported by a team of experienced trained staff dedicated to sustaining a school, where excellent teaching enables students to develop their abilities to the full.

The partnership with parents, carers and the wider community is critical in developing all of our young people’s social, emotional, physical and intellectual qualities and we are uncompromising in our pursuit of the best for all.

We aim to make education real, interesting, relevant and practical through an ethos of learning outside the classroom. Using outdoor education and forest schools, we seek to develop social and emotional aspects of learning.

Job Description

Job Purpose

The core purpose of the Assistant Head role is to provide professional leadership and management to ensure all pupils have excellent outcomes and staff are supported and developed in their roles.

Accountable to the Executive Headteacher, the Assistant Headteacher will be joining an experienced team consisting of the Executive Headteacher, Interim Deputy Head of School, Operations Lead, SENCo and DSL. This role will focus on behaviour and personal development across the school.

The main purpose of the role will be to support the Executive Head Teacher in communicating the school’s vision compellingly and supporting the strategic leadership, support the day-to-day management of the school, establishing policies for achieving these aims and objectives, and managing staff and resources.

They may also be required to undertake any of the duties delegated by the Executive Headteacher.

Responsibilities

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• To provide vision and leadership for the staff and to promote and develop the whole school ethos that is underpinned by associated policies and procedures

• Implement the Vision and Values of the school and Transforming Futures Trust

• Assist the Headteacher in leading the school

• To ensure there is a positive learning culture within the school

• To review, develop and update policies and procedures that underpin the effective running of the school

• To ensure the continued development of the school and make a significant contribution to high quality organization and leadership

• Manage resources and budget associated with the role

• Contribute and support the planning and implementation of the all and any improvement planning

• To keep abreast of developments within education at local, national and international level and have an active participation in educational research.

• To be responsible for monitoring and continually improving the standards of all outcomes for all pupils. This includes attainment and progress both academically and in behaviour, social and emotional skills and attendance.

• Leadership of a school where equality and diversity are promoted and that equality underpins everything we do

• The handling of individual pupil or staff disciplinary cases

• To be responsible for the line management of individuals and teams including leading the appraisal process of specific Faculty areas/Sites

• To advise and assist the local governance group as required in the exercising of its functions including attending meetings and making reports when required.

• To participate in the recruitment process and support the development of new staff members

• To deputise for the Headteacher when the Headteacher and the Deputy Headteacher are not available in school.

• To promote and sustain a Trauma Informed Practice culture across the school

• Be a role model to pupils and staff through personal presentation and professional conduct.

• Establish effective working relationships with professional colleagues, partners and stakeholders as appropriate to the role

• Participate in school to school improvement and training for other organisations

• Represent Mount Tamar Schools in a range of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings

Specific areas of responsibility

This role will focus on the Personal development of all pupils at Mount Tamar. The role will involve looking at how the curriculum and SEND provision supports this for all pupils and how we can be Ofsted Good or better in all areas of the inspection framework.

As part of this role you will have specific responsibilities for;

• Line management and day to day oversight and support of the running of one of the schools sites (Site chosen dependent on successful applicant)

• Leading of CPD that directly links to improvement planning and staff development

• Line management of curriculum areas (dependent on successful candidates)

Other Duties & Responsibilities

A JOB DESCRIPTION CAN NEVER BE FULLY DESCRIPTIVE AND EXHAUSTIVE OF UNFORESEEN CHANGES OR CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS EXPECTED THAT STAFF WILL, WITHIN REASON, RESPOND TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES AND EMERGENCIES AS THEY ARISE, COMMENSURATE WITH THEIR QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND THE SITUATION.

Please see attached candidate pack for more details and person specification

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Mount Tamar School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 16
• School size: 108 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-tamar-school-plymouth

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