Assistant Headteacher - Behaviour
Sir Frederick Gibberd College, Harlow, Essex, CM18 6RN16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
1 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
15 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £71,030.00 - £80,134.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Scale L13 - L18
Assistant Headteacher - Behaviour job summary
Sir Frederick Gibberd College are looking for an Assistant Headteacher of Behaviour.
This strategic role involves working closely with staff, students, parents, and external agencies to embed the school’s values, support vulnerable students, and drive high standards across the academy. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will also oversee pastoral systems, line-manage Heads of Year, deliver staff training, and act as a visible, influential ambassador for the school and Trust.
You will play a central role in championing the values and ethos of both the school and the Trust, ensuring they are embedded within all behaviour strategies and practices. You will lead on behaviour, attendance, and inclusion, driving high standards across the academy to enable every student to thrive and achieve their full potential. Working closely with senior leaders, staff, students, parents, and external agencies, you will develop and implement a clear vision that promotes a safe, inclusive, and respectful learning environment. This role demands a strategic and proactive approach, using data to inform interventions and continuously refine systems to support positive behaviour and high levels of engagement.
In addition to your leadership of behaviour and inclusion, you will contribute fully to the Senior Leadership Team, playing an active role in shaping the school's overall direction. Your work will involve close collaboration with safeguarding leads to embed compliance and ensure vulnerable students receive the support they need. As a visible and influential leader, you will model the highest expectations, contribute to whole-school events, and serve as a key ambassador for the school and Trust within the wider community. This role is vital to fostering a positive school culture built on mutual respect, equity, and high achievement for all.
About the School
Sir Frederick Gibberd College is an aspirational 11-18 school in Harlow, Essex, with outstanding ambition Sir Frederick Gibberd College on its path to excellence: a place where high quality teaching and learning is delivered, where exemplary behaviour and care is guaranteed, where great outcomes are attained and opportunities for all to achieve and flourish is a given.
The school opened in September 2019, named after the celebrated architect who designed Harlow as one of the UK's first post-war New Towns. From its inception, the school has been dedicated to providing high-quality education to the local community. It has grown from a cohort of Year 7 students to a whole community where students, their families and the public come together to learn, have fun and make a difference. In September 2021, the sixth form opened, expanding the provision of quality education for the young people of Harlow. At Sir Frederick Gibberd College, students are given every opportunity to achieve this- with a personalised curriculum, rich and innovative experiences outside of the classroom.
About the Trust
BMAT is a thriving community of schools, committed to providing an outstanding education for every student attending one of our schools. We create environments where individuals matter, confidence flourishes, and every child can achieve exceptional outcomes. We currently oversee seven secondary academies and five primary academies, primarily located in Harlow, with additional sites in Newham and Stansted.
The Trust’s vision is clear - to work together to smash through the barriers that prevent children from becoming confident, high-achieving, and independent individuals.
What can BMAT offer you?
BMAT provides a range of benefits to support your personal and professional well-being:
- Generous employer pension contribution through Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme
- Private healthcare benefits, including 24/7 Doctorline access
- Home and electronic salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work
- Discounted Gym membership through salary sacrifice
- Lifestyle and discount savings
- Workplace nursery fee salary sacrifice scheme via Yellownest
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support
We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close the advert if a suitable candidate is shortlisted and appointed prior to the closing date.
BMAT Education is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
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.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Sir Frederick Gibberd College
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 843 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir Frederick Gibberd College website
Brand new 11-19 school with an academic sixth form in Harlow, Essex.
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