Assistant Headteacher - Canterbury Road

West Thornton Primary School, Croydon, CR0 3BS

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Early 2026

• Closing date

  14 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £61,249.00 - £68,798.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership Scale Points - 5-10 (Outer London) - Salary Range £61,249- £68,798 per annum - FTE

Assistant Headteacher - Canterbury Road job summary

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

Location: West Thornton Primary School, Croydon, CR0 3HH - Canterbury Road Site

Salary: Leadership Scale Points - 5-10 (Outer London) - Salary Range £61,249- £68,798 per annum - FTE

Hours: Monday - Friday - 32.5 Hours per week

Start Date: Early 2026

West Thornton Primary School is a three-form entry primary school located in Croydon. Part of the Inspire Partnership Academy Trust, we are a family of schools across Croydon, Medway, and Greenwich, who aim to offer a life changing education for all of our children.

We are committed to building futures in a welcoming and supportive learning environment, in which all pupils feel valued and challenged to be resilient thinkers, active learners with transferable skills and have an appetite for world learning

We are seeking to appoint a visionary and exceptional Assistant Headteacher who will be relentless in the pursuit of excellence across the curriculum, leading our wonderful community into an exciting future. This role offers a fantastic career opportunity for the successful candidate to shape the strategic vision and direction not only for West Thornton, but also make a difference across our Partnership. Working in collaboration with other school leaders and sharing best practice lies at the core of our school improvement work, so the successful candidate would benefit from these opportunities.

We can offer the successful candidate high quality professional development and coaching opportunities, you will receive the very best support from both our central services and education leadership teams. You will also be joining a Partnership of truly collaborative and values led professionals.

What we offer

As an Assistant Headteacher, with Inspire Partnership Academy Trust, you'll enjoy a range of benefits:

Ongoing professional development

Commitment to staff wellbeing (members of the staff wellbeing charter)

Generous Annual Leave

Annual Incremental Pay Increases

Enhanced Family Friendly Pay (maternity, paternity/enhanced sickness pay)

Teacher’s Pension Scheme

Local Government Pension Scheme

Eye care voucher scheme

Extensive Training and Induction program

Further information about our Trust is available at:

https://www.inspirepartnership.co.uk or to discuss this opportunity or arrange a visit to the school, please contact Mrs Clare Dennis, Co-Headteacher at cdennis@inspirewestthornton.co.uk.

For enquiries or an application pack please contact Janine Fernandes on 07706 829 391 or by email croydonhubrecruitment@inspirepartnership.co.uk

Closing date for applications: 14th January 2026 at 12:00pm

Interview date: 26th January 2026

The Inspire Partnership Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check. The Inspire Partnership is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from men and women of all ages from any background and from candidates with disabilities.

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

The Inspire Partnership Academy Trust is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults as outlined in Working Together to
Safeguard Children. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the
people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment.

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 West Thornton Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 910 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: West Thornton Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/west-thornton-primary-school-croydon

In addition to the Conditions of Employment for teachers laid down in Part the School Teachers’ Pay and
Conditions Document 2008, to provide strategic leadership and hold accountability for standards
achieved within a given phase and quality order to:

• Working with Governors and Senior Leadership Team to enable The Inspire Partnership to give
every
pupil high quality education, and promote the highest possible standards of achievement.
• Secure the long-term success of the school by maximizing potential through the skills and resources held
• Play a significant role within the context of Every Child Matters, to help ensure The Inspire Partnership School provides a full, integrated range of extended services

Key Priorities for The Inspire Partnership:
• Consistently and continuously raise achievements and standards across the school
• Ensure every child reaches their potential and enjoys a happy, fulfilling school experience
• Ensure our schools continuously maintain and embed best practice
• Develop to a high level positive links with the local community, including parents and carers

Securing accountability
• Develop a collaborative ethos which enables everyone to achieve common goals
• Take personal responsibility to ensure personal accountabilities are clearly understood. This
includes planning, marking and assessment
• Ensure every child has access to high quality teaching and learning

Key Accountabilities
Creating the future of The Inspire Partnership School
• Working with colleagues to create the strategic vision and promote the vision, values and ethos to
pupils, staff, Governors, parents and the wider community
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Key Accountabilities Continued.
Creating the future of The Inspire Partnership School
• Help create a shared learning culture and positive climate by building positive relationships which
lead to highly effective communication with colleagues, pupils and parents. This includes listening skills
• Translate the vision into best practice through innovative planning, teaching and providing high quality learning experiences
• Work with the key stakeholders to maintain a shared vision and future strategic plans which will inspire and motivate pupils, staff, parents and the wider community Leading teaching and learning
• To serve as a role model for pupils, staff and parents
• Maintain a continuous and consistent focus on pupils’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress.
• Plan engaging lessons that contain progression across ability ranges that are informed by secure subject and curriculum knowledge
• Teach challenging, well organised lessons that build on pupils prior learning and enable sustained progress to be attained
• Ensure lessons are informed by well-grounded expectations of learners designed to raise levels of attainment
• Provide learners, colleagues, parents and carers with timely, accurate and constructive feedback on pupils’ attainment, progress and areas for development
• Use assessment as part of their teaching to diagnose learners’ needs, set realistic and challenging targets for improvement and plan future teaching

Developing self and working with others
• Have excellent subject knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and behaviour
management strategies
• Promote and maintain a culture of high expectations for self and others
• Know a range of approaches to assessment and formative assessment and understand the role of
assessment in helping all pupils make good progress
• Regularly review own practice, set personal targets and take responsibility for own development,
seeking advice and support from other leaders

Managing a subject area (excluding NQTs)
• Ensure improvement plans reflect the school’s priorities and values
• Ensure plans and policies promote continuous school improvement linked to the school SEF
• Develop effective relationships and communications which underpin a professional learning
community that enables everyone in the school to achieve
• Create an inspiring, professional work environment within the phase team consistent with the school’s
values and aspirations
• Put in place effective team communication mechanisms to ensure that all staff are involved in the
development plan and are kept informed of key priorities
• Manage budgets to achieve the schools’ educational goals and priorities, and ensure systems are in
place for the effective administration and control
• Use and integrate a range of technologies effectively and efficiently
Strengthening community
• Work with colleagues to strengthen and develop the ethos of the school, allowing this to influence and
shape all areas of the school’s work and collective worship
• Create and promote positive strategies for challenging racial and other prejudice
• Ensure community-based learning experiences are planned for and are explicit in medium term plans
• Collaborate with colleagues and other agencies to ensure pupil and community needs are met
• Promote community cohesion by ensuring long term, medium term and short term planning
references links to community cohesion and extended services.
• Ensure planning takes account of the diversity, values and experience of the school, school grounds
and local community
• Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents, Governors to support and improve pupils’
achievements and personal development
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Key Accountabilities Continued.
Data protection
• It is essential when working with computerised systems that you are completely aware of your responsibilities at all times under the Data protection Act 1984 for the security, accuracy, and significance of personal data held on such systems
Health and safety
• Manage and organise the learning environment within the phase to ensure each classroom reflects the school’s high standards and aspirations
• Manage learners’ behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive framework for discipline
• Use a range of behaviour management techniques and strategies, adapting them as necessary to promote the self control and independence of learners
• Ensuring the safety of all staff and pupils within phase team by coordinating risk assessments,
planned trips and visits and any school activities with a risk potential. This includes ensuring all staff within phase team are aware of potential risk factors and school procedures for managing risk effectively

Safeguarding
• To have due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to follow the child protection procedures adopted by the LA and school

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