14 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Commencing September 2025 or January 2026

  • Closing date

    22 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    6 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

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Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£66,919.00 - £73,819.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Pay Scale 13-17

Assistant Headteacher [Behaviour & Inclusion] job summary

Assistant Headteacher

[Behaviour & Inclusion]

Commencing September 2025 or January 2026

Leadership Pay Scale 13-17

Blessed George Napier is a successful popular 11-18 Catholic Secondary School in North Oxfordshire. We are easily accessible from south Birmingham, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.

“Pupils are keen to be part of this thoughtful and inclusive school… enjoying learning and showing kindness are part of everyday life… Pupils talk positively about the support provided for their physical and mental well-being… and study and ambitious curriculum.”

[OFSTED, November 2022]

We are seeking an experienced, motivational leader, who is a highly effective communicator and an aspirational role model, to lead our successful Heads of Year and Pastoral Support Assistant at BGN School.

A key member of the Senior Leadership Team, this role will be a Deputy DSL and will lead and oversee the wider care and support for pupils, ensuring social, emotional and personal development is nurtured alongside their academic progress. Supporting pupils, parents and staff, you will play a key role across the school.

Applications are particularly welcome from teachers with a specialism in Physics or Chemistry.

As the successful applicant, you will have:-

  • Successful experience as a Middle Leader in a secondary school setting
  • Experience of implementing successful behaviour and management practice
  • Resilience and the ability to remain positive and calm in challenging situations
  • The ability to articulate and share a vision of outstanding secondary education.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate an empathy for, and understanding of, the Catholic Christian ethos of the school and be committed to upholding our five Gospel values.

If you have any questions, or you would like to arrange a visit to our school, please email hr@bgn.oxon.sch.uk or call us on 01295 264216.

Safeguarding screening, including online searches, will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates.

BGN is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all students and to upholding fundamental British Values. We expect all of our employees to share this commitment. This post will require an enhanced DBS check.

Commitment to safeguarding

BGN IS COMMITTED TO SAFEGUARDING AND PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF ALL STUDENTS AND TO UPHOLDING FUNDAMENTAL BRITISH VALUES.
WE EXPECT ALL OUR EMPLOYEES TO SHARE THIS COMMITMENT. THIS POST WILL REQUIRE AN ENHANCED DBS CHECK.

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About Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sixth Form

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
879 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Blessed George Napier is the only Catholic Secondary School in North Oxfordshire and are held in high regard across the Archdiocese of Birmingham. We are popular, over-subscribed, with an

excellent reputation for both academic achievement and student welfare.

“Pupils are keen to be part of this thoughtful and inclusive school …. enjoying learning and showing kindness are part of everyday life… Pupils talk positively about the support provided for their

physical and mental well-being …. and study an ambitious curriculum.”

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