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Assistant Headteacher
Hexham Middle School, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 3JB6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
1 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £64,129 - £70,639
Pay scale
- L11 - L15
What skills and experience we're looking for
- As designated safeguarding lead, create an environment in which all pupils feel safe, secure and happy, and where safeguarding procedures are rigorously applied with a strong culture of vigilance.
- Lead a culture of inclusion and support where all pupils feel a sense of belonging with a particular focus on pupils with additional needs and those who face disadvantage. Lead a relational approach where positive relationships between staff, pupils and parents/carers are at the heart of school practice.
- Ensure very high standards of behaviour and engagement in a calm and orderly environment across the school through implementation of a fair but robust behaviour policy and curriculum.
- Have oversight of the school’s inclusion provision and support for pupils with additional needs (including the strategic leadership of the SENDCo) ensuring that pupils access a fully inclusive learning environment and broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum.
- Ensure a rigorous focus on high standards of attendance and punctuality and lead effective and rigorous systems to work with pupils and families.
- Promote positive attitudes to learning and maintain a positive and respectful school culture in which all staff know and care about pupils as individuals within the wider school community.
What the school offers its staff
- A supportive induction package and professional development.
- A comprehensive package of wellbeing and health support.
- Free gym membership on site.
- Ample on-site parking.
- A very pleasant, modern working environment in the market town of Hexham.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@qehs.net
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hexham Middle School
- School type
- Academy, ages 9 to 13
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 599 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 13
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hexham Middle School website
- Email address
- recruitment@qehs.net
- Phone number
- 01434 610362
We are a large and flourishing middle school set in the historical market town of Hexham and are co-located with Queen Elizabeth High School as part of Hadrian Learning Trust. In September 2021, we moved into brand new school buildings with state-of-the-art learning facilities. We cherish the strong partnerships that exist between pupils, parents/carers, staff and the local community making this a successful, friendly and welcoming school. Pupils at Hexham Middle School have an eagerness to learn and achieve very well academically. We pride ourselves on the positive relationships we build and the individualised care and support we give the children in our school. The school is situated in Hexham – a short drive from Newcastle and with local transport links to both Carlisle and Newcastle.
Arranging a visit to Hexham Middle School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@qehs.net.
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