Assistant Headteacher (Head of Sixth Form)

Silverdale School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 9QH

26 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  01 September 2026

• Closing date

  20 April 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  25 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £67,898.00 - £75,049.00 Annually (FTE)

Assistant Headteacher (Head of Sixth Form) job summary

Silverdale School is seeking to appoint an outstanding and compassionate Assistant Headteacher - Head of Sixth Form, to join our highly successful Senior Leadership Team. This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious and values-driven leader to shape and lead a thriving Sixth Form, ensuring that every student is supported to achieve exceptional outcomes and progress to ambitious next steps.

As Head of Sixth Form, you will provide strategic leadership of our post-16 provision, creating a culture of high expectations, strong relationships and clear ambition. You will lead on student progress, wellbeing and destinations, ensuring that all students are known, supported and challenged to succeed. You will also play a key role in shaping a rich Sixth Form experience, including academic excellence, personal development and meaningful enrichment opportunities.

We are looking for a leader who:

• Has a strong track record of impact and leadership, with a passion for post-16 education

• Is committed to leading with compassion, integrity and clarity

• Can inspire students and staff to achieve the very best outcomes

• Has the ability to develop systems and structures that secure excellence

• Is reflective, evidence-informed and committed to continuous improvement

As a member of Silverdale’s Senior Leadership Team, you will contribute to the wider strategic leadership of the school. Leadership at Silverdale is rooted in the understanding that we lead people first, creating a culture built on trust, respect and high expectations.

Silverdale School is a highly successful and oversubscribed school, recently recognised as one of the top ten northern schools in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2026. Student behaviour is excellent, and staff benefit from a positive, collegiate culture built on teamwork, professional trust and high expectations. Silverdale is a fantastic place to teach, grow and develop, where staff are supported to be the very best they can be and where teaching is truly valued.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting difference to the lives of young people and to shape the future of our Sixth Form provision.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

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.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Silverdale School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1451 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Silverdale School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/silverdale-school-sheffield

Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high-achieving 11-18 comprehensive in the south west of Sheffield and is now the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. The school achieved the best GCSE results in 2018 of any state school in Sheffield. At Post 16 the progress students make places Silverdale in the top 10% of schools nationally. At its heart is one of the country’s largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teaching School Alliance. Silverdale moved into a brand new building in January 2009 with a full complement of facilities. Silverdale School is part of Chorus Education Trust, and as such all appointees may be required to work at any Trust site in the future.

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