Assistant Headteacher
Bents Green School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 7TB31 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
26 April 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 Hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Range 6-10
What skills and experience we're looking for
Assistant Headteacher (Pastoral, Safeguarding, Attendance and Behaviour)
This is a rare and rewarding opportunity to join Bents Green School as an Assistant Headteacher with strategic responsibility for:
Safeguarding
- Lead safeguarding practice for highly vulnerable, often non‑verbal students.
- Ensure concerns are identified, recorded, and escalated promptly.
- Work closely with families and multi‑agency partners to keep students safe.
- Oversee risk assessments and ensure staff understand non‑verbal indicators of harm or distress.
Behaviour
- Lead a whole‑school behaviour approach underpinned by Trauma Informed Practice
- Oversee personalised behaviour plans, functional assessments, and crisis responses.
- Analyse behaviour patterns to identify triggers and reduce distressed behaviours.
- Support staff to implement consistent, communication‑rich, trauma‑informed strategies.
Attendance
- Lead and monitor whole‑school attendance.
- Ensure accurate tracking systems and timely follow‑up.
- Work with families and agencies to remove attendance barriers.
- Promote consistent policy use and a culture of good attendance.
Pastoral care, inclusion and wellbeing
- Oversee pastoral systems that support emotional regulation, communication, and wellbeing.
- Ensure consistent use of visuals and communication systems.
- Promote dignity, agency, and student voice for learners with communication needs
- Support transitions, attendance, and daily routines for students with complex needs.
Staff development, partnership working
- Provide coaching, training, and modelling on behaviour, safeguarding, and communication.
- Support staff wellbeing, especially after challenging incidents.
- Build strong relationships with families and external professionals.
- Contribute to strategic planning, policy development, and whole‑school improvement
What the school offers its staff
This is a unique opportunity to:
- Become a child’s champion, advocating fiercely for inclusion, dignity and opportunity
- Make a genuine difference to the lives of amazing children and young people
- Create memories that will last, through meaningful relationships and shared successes
- Help change perceptions and attitudes around special educational needs and neurodiversity
- Work within a compassionate, reflective and ambitious leadership team
- Develop your leadership practice in a school that values innovation, collaboration and professional growth
We are looking for a values-led leader who is passionate about inclusion, relationships and educational excellence, and who believes every child deserves to be seen, heard and celebrated.
What you can expect from us
Wellbeing – Pay – Careers and Training – Annual Leave and Flexibility
- Access to free wellbeing support resources including counselling, medical and legal advice and an option to top up to private healthcare via corporate membership of a healthcare plan.
- Access to discount schemes for savings with high street retailers, restaurants, activities and lifestyle services
- Auto enrolment into a leading pension scheme with Teachers Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
- Access to extensive and tailored career pathways, CPD programmes, training and coaching giving you the opportunity to grow and develop your career
- An Induction package to help you settle in and approach your role with confidence and enthusiasm
- The ability to contribute to and share quality practice with other professional TAs, Teachers and the wider team
- Internal opportunities across the Trust academies and to work with specialised leaders in education on nationally recognised projects
- Flexible working policies
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Annual leave increases based on length of service plus bank holidays for support staff
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bents Green School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- Up to 288 pupils
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bents Green School website
- Email address
- bents.recruitment@nexusmat.org
School location
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