Assistant Headteacher (EYFS/KS1 Lead)
Wootton Park School, Northampton, NN4 0JA19 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L3-7
What skills and experience we're looking for
Northampton Free-school Trust is seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher (EYFS/KS1 Lead)for our new Primary School, Overstone Park, opening September 2025. This is a rewarding and important leadership position within our growing Trust.
What We Are Looking For
Our ideal candidate will be an inspirational leader that is fully committed to securing the best outcomes and will 'go the extra mile' to this for the Trust, the School and its learners, staff and stakeholders.
All members of our team must be committed to maximising potential and continuous improvement, and be willing to participate fully in all aspects of school life.
Our quest for excellence, must be combined with an unwavering commitment to care, support and leadership. Therefore, anyone seeking appointment to this role must demonstrate warmth, humour, resilience and, above all, emotional intelligence in order to uphold the values and lead our School and represent our Trust.
What the school offers its staff
We Can Offer You
- Opportunity and freedom to innovate and lead
- Professional development following a coaching model
- Excellent future opportunities for staff as we grow our Trust
- An exciting, friendly and conscientious Trust environment
- Staff engagement activities across the Trust
- IT support
- Employee 24/7confidential helpline
- Teachers pension scheme
Are you excited by this exceptional opportunity to be part of our a new primary school where you can shape the curriculum and opportunities for children and staff, if so we want to hear from you!
Further details about the role
Our Trust vision is to build on its existing all-through free school, Wootton Park School, to create an organisation of outstanding schools in Northampton and the surrounding areas, delivering strong academic achievement, developing strong values and promoting citizenship, community and service.
Through tried and tested teaching methods and the holistic development of each learner, we allow them to gain the confidence and skills to positively contribute to local communities and to participate in a global society. Our curriculum promotes social mobility and enhances the life chances of all learners, particularly the most disadvantaged.
Our learners are confident, happy and successful. Tolerance, courtesy, understanding and compassion are hard-wired into our ethos. While our focus is on achievement during their time with us, we will never lose sight of the fact that those in our care are beginning their journey and that we are preparing the successful adults of tomorrow for whatever path they choose.
It is an exciting time to join our Trust as we open our first Primary school, Overstone Park Primary School.
Overstone Park Primary School is proposed to open with 30 Reception learners from September 2025. It will grow year on year until at capacity of 420 children.
A flagship state-of-the-art sustainable new build located just off the A43 bypass is planned for the school with features including a green roof, solar panels, living walls, natural light and ventilation throughout the building, and outdoor spaces including a habitat area, amphitheatre, trim trail, multi-use games area (MUGA) and large hardstanding playground.
Overstone Park Primary School will be based on the highly successful model established by the oversubscribed all-through Wootton Park School, graded ‘Outstanding’ in all inspection categories in 2019. The School’s vision is founded on strong academic achievement, developing strong values and promoting citizenship, community and service, providing a ‘foundation for growth’ where every child will thrive and prosper.
Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and
young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
In accordance with our statutory obligations under Keeping Children Safe in
Education, Northampton Free School Trust is required to conduct an online search
as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates and offer of a position
is also subject to receiving satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS Disclosure.
We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer.
References will be applied for at the shortlisting stage.
Early application is encouraged. We do not accept CVs.
Closing Date:Friday 10th January 2025, noon
Interview Date:W/B Monday 13th January 2025
Start Date:September 2025
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
In accordance with our statutory obligations under Keeping Children Safe in Education Northampton Free School Trust is required to conduct an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates and offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Please note we do not accept CVs and references will be applied for at the
shortlisting stage.
Our latest Safeguarding Policy is on our school website.
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About Wootton Park School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1453 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Wootton Park School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- HRServices@woottonparkschool.org.uk
Northampton Free School Trust, trading as Wootton Park School
This is an exciting time for the Trust as we realise our ambition to build on our existing outstanding school, Wootton Park School and develop the Trust to include additional outstanding schools in Northampton and the surrounding areas. Northampton Free School Trust currently comprises of two schools with a third proposed for 2027.
Our aspirational Trust aims to provides a first-rate learning environment and delivers high levels of academic achievement and personal development for all, while promoting the value of community participation and building a stronger society.
Our first academy in the Trust, Wootton Park School, opened in 2016 with fewer than 20 staff and now employs 200+.
In July 2019 Wootton Park School received our first Ofsted inspection and were judged to be outstanding in every category. Inspectors noted that “The quality of teaching, learning and assessment is of a consistently high quality” and that “Achievement is outstanding in the early years and at key stages 1 and 3". "Staff morale is exceptionally high" Ofsted 2019.
Our second School, Overstone Park Primary School, opens in September 2025 with 1 Reception class and will grow year on year.
A third School, Dallington Park School; a secondary school, is proposed to open in September 2027.
Our hope is that our journey models that of Wootton Park School in delivering consistently high quality outstanding education.
We are very proud of our school and are looking for like-minded professionals to join us on the next stage of our exciting journey.
If you are inspired by this exceptional opportunity to join us at this stage of our journey, we want to hear from you!
Please visit our school website for more information about our school and a virtual tour.
Arranging a visit to Wootton Park School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HRServices@woottonparkschool.org.uk.
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