64 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    28 April 2025

  • Closing date

    24 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    20 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£52,301.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership pay scale L3 - L7, Full time, start date 28-04-25

Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion (SENDCo & DSL) job summary

Apley Wood Primary Academy would like to offer you the chance to apply for this exciting and vital role of Assistant Headteacher with Inclusion.

The role of Assistant Headteacher will require you to work with the Headship Team and as part of the Senior Leadership Team to take responsibility for managing and developing learning and teaching across the phase you lead, as well as leading and managing Inclusion, including the SENCo role.

The post will include 2 full days of teaching the remaining 3 days will be for other required responsibilities.

In particular, successful applicants should have:

  • The relevant degree and QTS
  • Proven highly successful teaching experience
  • Leadership experience
  • Experience of curriculum planning, implementation, assessing and recording
  • Understanding of the key characteristics of an effective learning environment within your phase
  • Be able to demonstrate outstanding classroom practice and articulate what constitutes effective teaching and learning within your phase
  • Ability to inspire, lead and motivate children and staff, being an exemplary practitioner who leads by example with high standards of all and working in strategic partnership with all stakeholders lead and raise the quality of learning and teaching.
  • Ability to influence the quality of teaching and learning
  • Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with, and the protection of, children and young people

You should:

  • Be driven by values and able to articulate significant evidence of relational leadership
  • Have strong leadership skills that result in the provision of first-class teaching and learning opportunities for all pupils
  • Have the ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Have commitment to personal and professional development
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Be passionate about improving the quality of provision for all children

For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

Why Work with REAch2 Academy Trust?

Join REAch2 Academy Trust, one of the UK's largest primary academy trusts, with a mission to unlock the potential of every child, regardless of their background. Here’s why joining our team can be an exciting and fulfilling career choice:

  • Excellence & Development: We prioritise high standards and offer extensive professional development and career growth opportunities.

  • Supportive & Collaborative: Be part of a strong, collaborative community of over 60 schools where every voice is valued, and best practices are shared.

  • Well-being Focus: We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer robust well-being support for all staff.

  • Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives strengthen our schools.

  • Innovation & Impact: Bring creativity to the classroom and make a real difference in children’s lives.

  • Making a difference: Working with REAch2 means contributing to something bigger than yourself. You’ll be helping to shape the lives of young learners, making a meaningful impact on communities and future generations.

Join us to grow your career, collaborate with passionate educators, and make a lasting impact on future generations.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support your career and well-being:

  • Generous Annual Leave: healthy work-life balance.

  • Professional Development: Access diverse CPD and training opportunities to grow your skills.

  • Flexible & Family-Friendly: We are committed to supporting flexible working and requests will be considered on an individual basis, including options such as part time, term-time, home working, and other options that work for both the employee and the Trust.  

  • Exclusive Discounts: Benefit from Blue Light Card offers and employee perks.

  • Well-being Support: Receive comprehensive well-being and employee assistance for you and your family.

Join REAch2 for a rewarding career with great benefits!

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.  

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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

CVs are not accepted.

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About Apley Wood Primary Academy

School type
Academy, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
Up to 420 pupils
Age range
4 to 11

School location

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