Assistant Headteacher - Challenge for All Abilities
The Highcrest Academy, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP13 7NQ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £63,815.00 - £70,293.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Payscale, depending on experience.
Assistant Headteacher - Challenge for All Abilities job summary
Discover what we can offer you
Would you like to work nine days but be paid for ten? We understand the pressures that working in education can place on individuals and are always looking for ways to improve working conditions and offer our staff incentives that are not always available in education.
Could this make the difference you need?
Add to this a significant investment in your professional development and the possibility of onsite accommodation if you need to relocate, plus facilities that are second to none, including an excellent canteen, gym and coffee shop.
Does Highcrest sound like the school for you?
If you relish the satisfaction of transforming futures and helping our students overcome obstacles to experience life to the full, please read on …
Take your career to the next level
As the only all ability academy in Buckinghamshire, we do whatever it takes to tackle disadvantage and provide an outstanding education to everyone. Our innovative curriculum is as diverse as our student community and is purpose-designed to release the potential of academic high-flyers and those with SEN alike. You can join us as you take your career to the next level.
Explore the opportunity
We are looking for a dedicated, inspirational and compassionate leader who will:
- Contribute to the vision and strategic direction of the academy to ensure whole school improvement
- Take a strategic lead in the development of all aspects of our comprehensive inclusion strategy, ensuring that robust systems secure improvements that are comparable with national standards.
- Strategic leadership of whole school literacy, developing and implementing a reading programme to help identify and address gaps for pupils of all abilities, helping them access appropriate texts and become fluent readers.
- Inspire our community of young people to achieve beyond their expectations, whatever their ability, to become active participants in society and responsible citizens with a strong moral purpose
- Support colleagues to embed inclusive practices within their departments and teams.
- Work collaboratively with alternative provision providers and other external agencies to support vulnerable students and their families.
The specific details of this role can be tailored to suit the successful candidate’s skill set.
Apply Now!
This role offers an exceptional opportunity for a dynamic leader to shape the future of inclusion in our supportive and forward-thinking academy. If you are passionate about equality, diversity, and the success of all students, please complete our online application form via the apply button. We welcome visits from prospective candidates by prior appointment, at any point in advance of the interview day. To arrange a visit, please contact the Principal’s Personal Assistant via 01494 529866.
We look forward to hearing from you
The Highcrest Academy is fully committed to safeguarding children (polices on web). All members of staff are in a "regulated" role under the Vetting & Barring Scheme and have to be DBS cleared prior to employment.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Highcrest Academy is fully committed to safeguarding children (policies on web). All members of staff are in a “regulated” role under the Vetting & Barring Scheme and have to be DBS cleared prior to employment.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Highcrest Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1068 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Highcrest Academy website (opens in new tab)
"The school has a warm and welcoming atmosphere" and "Pupils at The Highcrest Academy happily live up to the school's motto of 'aspire and achieve'." Ofsted 2020
All who work at the academy reinforce our six virtues linked to our motto (Ambition, Sensitivity, Purpose, Integrity, Resilience and Eloquence), helping us instil a culture of excellence that runs throughout every strand of our Academy.
Situated in the leafy Chilterns and within easy reach of Central London, Highcrest is culturally and academically diverse and is the only academy in Buckinghamshire that caters for students of ‘all abilities’. Some of our students need all your support, whilst others need to be challenged and stretched. Our inclusive and successful House system, a wide range of clubs, visits and trips helps to bring our whole school community together. There are approximately 1,000 students on roll, including the Sixth Form. Recent additions to our site include a gym and restaurant/coffee shop for both staff and students, as well as a purpose-built Sixth Form Centre.
A thriving and friendly academy in the heart of the community, where your well-being is paramount. We offer staff recognition schemes, free gym and staff sports teams, plus a paid Well-being Day for all staff. There is also the possibility of shared staff living accommodation and on-site parking.
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