Assistant Headteacher - English

Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 9HZ

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  21 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  7 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L10-16 (Subject to experience)

What skills and experience we're looking for

The specific responsibilities of the Assistant Headteacher fall into the following areas:

• To fulfil all the responsibilities of a main-scale teacher
• To provide professional leadership and management for English
• To support, hold accountable, develop and lead department staff, including TLR post holders
• To ensure high standards of teaching, learning, student achievement and progress
• To play a full part in the life of the school community, supporting its ethos and policies and ensuring that staff and students follow this example.

What the school offers its staff

We offer you:

• A vibrant school with outstanding facilities.
• A welcoming staff culture, where we focus on supporting each other to grow and develop as teachers and aspiring leaders.
• An environment where students have an excellent attitude to learning where they can grow academically and personally. Pupils’ behaviour and safety was judged by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’.
• Students who, through the wide and diverse academic and extra-curricular opportunities they are offered, grow as individuals and happily contribute to the school community.
• Regular opportunities for staff to collaborate and share best practice.
• Opportunities to regularly develop your own professional practice through in-house CPD.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our school is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare. This post is subject to all the relevant pre-employment checks set out in “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, including an enhanced DBS certificate with a barred-list check, together with an additional check as part of the shortlisting process, will be to carry out an online search (including social media).

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@cardinal-heenan.org.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Assistant Headteacher Application Pack.pdf - 6.67 MB (opens in new tab)

About Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1331 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School website
• Email address: l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk
• Phone number: 0151 235 1430
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cardinal-heenan-catholic-high-school

Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a thriving and vibrant Specialist Sports College and a leading school in the local area.

Arranging a visit to Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk.

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