27 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2026

  • Closing date

    13 April 2026 at 10am

  • Date listed

    17 March 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time, full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£69,595.00 - £76,773.00 Annually (FTE) L13-17

Assistant Headteacher job summary

Are you looking to take a key leadership role and make a significant difference in a popular and successful school? A school with an outstanding culture based on high expectations and where strong relationships are founded on trust, clarity and clear routines? Where all members of the school community are supported to achieve success for life and become the very best versions of themselves? Denefield offers this, and much more.

Owing to the school’s expansion we have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to join the school’s Leadership Team. Precise responsibilities will be allocated on appointment, but we are looking for a strong classroom practitioner with extensive middle or senior leadership experience and with the ability to act strategically for the benefit of all groups, including our most vulnerable students.

We offer:

  • A clear, determined and ambitious leadership team and an enthusiastic and expert staff body.
  • Committed and aspirational students and a highly supportive parents and carers.
  • Quality professional development including training to support further career aspirations.
  • Outstanding facilities, including air-conditioned classrooms and offices and professional-standard floodlit sports pitches.
  • Onsite parking, a highly subsidised cycle to work scheme and a restaurant-quality canteen.
  • Dedicated HR support including a comprehensive employee assistance programme.

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, then we would love to hear from you. We welcome visits from prospective candidates. Please email us at DenefieldHR@Denefield.org.uk to arrange a convenient time.

Denefield is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our comprehensive recruitment and selection processes aims to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Successful candidates are subject to rigorous pre-employment checks. All short-listed candidates will be subject to online searches and any successful candidates will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and candidates will be required to submit the names of two referees, one of which must be your most recent employer. CVs will not be accepted.

We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.

Completed applications should reach us by 9.00am on Monday 13 April 2026.

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.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Denefield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All short-listed candidates will be subject to online searches and the successful candidate will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check along with other relevant employment checks. CVs will not be accepted.
In our school we are committed to securing genuine equality of opportunity in all aspects of our activities as an employer and education provider.

Applying for the job

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About Denefield School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary school
School size
1142 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
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School website
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Denefield is an ambitious, successful and over-subscribed school located in the western Reading suburb of Tilehurst.

At Denefield School we believe passionately that every young person should gain the qualifications and develop the character skills to have, as we say, 'success for life'. Every member of the community benefits from the strong, respectful relationships between staff, students, parents and carers.

Denefield is a happy and exciting place to work, where every member of the school team is valued. We recognise that our staff are the main reason behind our successful school. Both teaching and support staff are committed, enthusiastic and hardworking, all believing firmly that we should help students to be and do their best. We understand that the wellbeing of our staff is essential and that they need to feel supported so that they in turn can support our students and ensure that they succeed in life.

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