Assistant Headteacher for Curriculum

Sheffield Inclusion Centre, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 2JQ

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  30 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time: Monday to Friday, 5 days per week
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership L7 to L11
• Pay scale: £57,831.00 starting salary

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Assistant Headteacher to work with us and lead the curriculum across our school and in addition lead one of our 10 bases in the city centre. We are seeking a dedicated and hardworking Assistant Headteacher who will be able to continue the work driving up standards towards good and outstanding. We are looking for a core subject specialist with experience of leading a team.

As a school we are working towards good or outstanding and in the last three years there has been a transformation of our service into a school with high expectations for our pupils in terms of behaviour and academic rigour.

We want to add capacity to our team by recruiting an innovative, inclusion practitioner. You will have in your heart the desire to equip our young people with the skills and knowledge to live safe, fulfilled and successful lives. For us the right personality and an ability to connect with our young people is key and absolutely essential.

We are looking for an Assistant Headteacher who can:

• deliver outstanding provision to raise the attainment and achievement at our city centre base
• lead on curriculum development across the school
• join the Senior Leadership in our mission to gain an outstanding provision
• offer strategic support to the school under the direction of the headteacher
• deliver a curriculum with highly skilled differentiation and a strong focus on pupil engagement and creativity
• show dedication and patience in working with pupils with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
• show commitment to understanding and improving the life circumstances of all our pupils.
• be an excellent team player
• have high aspirations for all of our pupils
• the ability to assess the progress of learning, keep accurate assessment data and the potential to analyse the data.

• rise to the physical and emotional challenges of teaching students who are disaffected with education
• help our students make accelerated progress towards national expectations in all subjects

What the school offers its staff

The Sheffield Inclusion Centre provides education and emotional/social support for young people who have been permanently excluded from mainstream schools. We work with all key stages, KS1 to KS4. We have to be holistic in our approach as we work not just with the individual, but with the family and ensure a team around the young person is in place at a very difficult time. The majority of our young people have experienced trauma and as such we are very much a trauma informed school. The aim is for young people to reintegrate back into mainstream education. We also support mainstream schools with preventative provision in order to slow down the rate of permanent exclusion across the city. No two days are the same. You will need to be a good team player, but confident to work on your own initiative. We will not pretend that this is not challenging place to work but it is also one of the most rewarding and professionally fulfilling.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to enquiries@inclusion.sheffield.sch.uk

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About Sheffield Inclusion Centre

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 262 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sheffield Inclusion Centre website
• Email address: tuesday.rhodes@inclusion.sheffield.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01142531988
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sheffield-inclusion-centre

All our children have been permanently excluded from mainstream school. Some children are reintegrated back to mainstream. Young people come to us with unmet Special Educational Needs and in some cases a full assessment of need is carried out resulting in an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

We feel we are the most important school in Sheffield with some of the most vulnerable and at the same time vibrant children in the city. Many of our children have unsettled home lives and mental health difficulties. Therefore, it is important to role model behaviour and always show children unconditional positive regard.

Everything we do is based on relationships and building trust.

Our children have not had the best start to their young lives in education so we need to help them become ready to learn and then to accelerate their learning so we provide a brighter future with improved life chances.

Arranging a visit to Sheffield Inclusion Centre

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tuesday.rhodes@inclusion.sheffield.sch.uk.

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