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Assistant Headteacher (Behaviour)

Bridgemary School, Gosport, Hampshire, PO13 0JN

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• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  8 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leadership Pay Scale L8-13

What skills and experience we're looking for

An exceptional opportunity for an inspirational and dedicated leader to drive behaviour and standards at a rapidly improving school.

This is an exciting time to join Bridgemary School. We are a popular 11-16 school with increasing pupil numbers and rising results. We are proud to provide an excellent education for all our students, with a firm commitment to learning, pride in our community, and sharing success in all that we do. As we continue on our upward trajectory, we are seeking an outstanding Assistant Headteacher to lead on all aspects of student behaviour, attitudes, and personal development.

As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will be instrumental in shaping a positive, respectful, and ambitious school culture. You will provide strategic leadership to ensure the highest standards of behaviour and attendance, creating an environment where every student can thrive and every teacher can teach.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a proven track record of outstanding leadership, with experience in raising standards of behaviour and attendance.
• Be an exemplary classroom practitioner with the ability to inspire and motivate both students and staff.
• Possess a deep understanding of best practices in behaviour management, restorative approaches, and safeguarding.
• Be a strategic thinker with the ability to analyse data, develop effective policies, and implement impactful strategies.
• Have exceptional interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills.
• Be resilient, determined, and committed to the academic and personal success of every child.

What the school offers its staff

Why join Bridgemary School?

You will be joining a dedicated and supportive team in a school that is on a clear path of improvement and growth. As part of The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT), you will have access to a network of professionals and a wide range of career development opportunities.

TKAT is one of the largest Multi-Academy Trusts in the South of England with over 45 Primary and Secondary Academies in the TKAT Family. For further information about TKAT please visit www.tkat.org.

How to Apply:

If you have the vision, drive, and experience to help lead our school, we would love to hear from you.

For more information and to download an application form, please visit our school website: www.bridgemary-tkat.org

We encourage prospective candidates to arrange a visit to the school to see us in action. Please contact head@bridgemary-tkat.org to arrange a tour.

Closing date for applications: 5pm 8th October 2025

Interview date: TBC

We reserve the right to close the application process early if suitable candidates apply.

Our Commitment

Safeguarding: TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

Equal, Inclusive, Diverse: TKAT is committed to inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity by encouraging and welcoming differences, listening to individual experiences, aspirations and accomplishments and learning how to grow better together. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic; this includes applicants wishing to work flexibly.

Access to interview: Should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the interview environment. If we can accommodate practical workplace adjustments to assist we will.

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

Please complete the online application.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

_AHT - Behaviour Advert (4).pdf - 2.31 MB (opens in new tab)

About Bridgemary School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 791 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bridgemary School website
• Email address: recruitment@bridgemary-tkat.org
• Phone number: 01329 319966
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bridgemary-school-gosport

At Bridgemary, we foster a culture of high standards, expectations and
aspirations within which every child is known.

Our key aims are for our learners to have high aspirations and
expectations for themselves and the school and to realise those
expectations. Learners in Gosport deserve and can achieve the very
best.

The environment at Bridgemary School is safe and happy, where our
students can actively engage in their learning. Our curriculum is built
upon a strong academic GCSE core that gives students the correct
qualifications to proceed to the courses and careers of their choosing.
The staff are dedicated to high-quality relevant learning and to raising
standards in all areas.

We are committed to developing independent, healthy young people
who make a positive contribution to society. We demand high
standards of behaviour, respect and dress.

We ensure the support; care and welfare of our students are the best.
This school is inclusive.

We are a school at the very heart of the local community and aspire to
be the school of choice of all who live here.

Arranging a visit to Bridgemary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bridgemary-tkat.org.

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