Assistant Headteacher

Caroline Haslett Primary School, MILTON KEYNES, Buckinghamshire, MK5 7DF

9 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  21 March 2025 at 4pm

• Date listed

  7 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,939.00 - £60,644.00 Annually (Actual)

Assistant Headteacher job summary

Are you an ambitious KS2 teacher looking for senior leadership?

Caroline Haslett is a large school with a small school ethos, and personal touch, with an excellent track record of developing future leaders. Our children enjoy coming to school and this enables the teachers and support staff to plan and teach in an exciting way.

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and ambitious leader with the desire to help lead our outstanding school as we embark on the next stage of our journey to further educational excellence.

You will display an authenticity that builds trust and maintains excellent relationships with others. You will offer thoughtful and considered contributions to whole school leadership and be able to drive forward improvement in your areas of whole school responsibility through intentional , methodical implementation, and effective evaluation of impact. You will strike the very careful balance between offering highly effective support and development to those that you lead, alongside providing rigorous challenge and accountability.

You will display an authenticity that builds trust and maintains excellent relationships with others. You will offer thoughtful and considered contributions to whole school leadership and be able to drive forward improvement in your areas of whole school responsibility through intelligent thinking, methodical implementation, and effective evaluation. You will strike the very careful balance between offering highly effective support and development to those that you lead, alongside providing rigorous challenge and accountability.

Our most recent Ofsted report commented:

Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary. From the start of Reception Year to the end of Year 6, pupils are highly motivated, engaged and independent learners. June 2019

Does this sound like the school you would like to work in? If so, then we’d love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will need to:

• Be responsible for the strategic direction and development of the school - in cooperation with other members of the SLT, and under the direction of the Headteacher
• Support the vision, ethos and policies of the school and promote high levels of achievement
• Support the creation and implementation of the School Development Plan within the national and local context, and to take sole responsibility for appropriately delegated aspects of it
• Be experienced in rigorous tracking and monitoring of children’s progress
• Be an excellent communicator, with a strong commitment to working in partnership with children, parents, governors and the community
• Have a teaching commitment alongside designated leadership time each week
• Have the ability to lead, motivate, challenge and support staff to achieve their best
• Be able to lead on whole school initiatives and be responsible for a key curriculum area
• Have a proven leadership and management skills as a team leader or equivalent
• Be an experienced class teacher who can demonstrate a record of success in accelerating children's progress
• Be committed to the principles of inclusion and diversity across all areas of school life
• Work sensitively and collaboratively alongside colleagues to embed high quality teaching and learning, supporting with planning, lesson delivery and assessment
• Understand that children are young people with personalities, not numbers, or data
• Believe that teaching and learning should be fun
  

Believe that teaching and learning should be fun

We can offer you:

• A well-resourced school, with extensive IT provision and grounds
• A warm, welcoming, inclusive school with a friendly, enthusiastic and dedicated team of teachers and support staff
• Children who are eager to learn, have excellent behaviour and a positive attitude who enjoy coming to school
• Supportive parents and governors
• Excellent opportunities to develop professionally and help you develop further leadership skills
• At Caroline Haslett School, we are committed to supporting staff wellbeing. Every member of staff is encouraged to take an annual wellbeing day and teachers take their ½ day PPA from home every week

Commitment to safeguarding

Caroline Haslett Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. For all posts pre-employment checks will be carried out, references will be sought and successful candidates will need to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Caroline Haslett Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 417 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Caroline Haslett Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/caroline-haslett-primary-school

Caroline Haslett is a large school with a small school ethos, who was judged Outstanding in 2019. Our children join us in Foundation Stage aged 4 and leave us in Year 6, aged 11.

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