Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion
Allestree Woodlands School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 2LW12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 62,202 - 68,586
Pay scale
- L10 - L14
What skills and experience we're looking for
Allestree Woodlands School is seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher to lead the direction and development of inclusion including SEND provision. This vacancy offers the successful candidate the opportunity to be a significant part of the strategic leadership of the school. The governors and staff are committed to serving our community by continuing to develop aspiration and achievement for all within our inclusive, friendly school community. If you feel you could contribute to this vision, we would be very pleased to receive your application.
The successful candidate will:
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of inclusion and SEND
- Be passionate about the power of high quality education
- Demonstrate excellence in teaching and learning
- Be able to inspire and motivate students and staff to aspire to great things and achieve their best
- Be a highly effective leader and team player who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Have a proven track record of raising standards
- Understand barriers to achievement and how to tackle these effectively
- Have high levels of commitment, courage and optimism
This post offers the successful candidate a chance to have both influence and impact in this role.
What the school offers its staff
If this appeals to you and you would like to lead in a caring and supportive school that believes that people are our most important resource, then we would love to hear from you. Visits prior to application are warmly welcomed and can be arranged by contacting Kate Challands k.challands@woodlands.derby.sch.uk.
The successful applicant will join a committed, collaborative, forward thinking and successful team. The school offers a personally and professionally supportive environment.
Commitment to safeguarding
At AWS we are fully committed to safeguarding our students and staff. We take notice of and adhere to all the national and local policies and guidance in regard to Safeguarding Children and Young People.
Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a responsibility to safeguard children.
All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and KCSIE. Online checks will be carried out for shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Allestree Woodlands School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Allestree Woodlands School website
- Email address
- k.challands@woodlands.derby.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01332 551921
At Allestree Woodlands, we pride ourselves on the warm and friendly atmosphere of the school. Relationships are important and we work to ensure that every student feels safe and happy. We strive for the best achievements for our students and believe that every young person deserves the chance to feel successful at school.
Our school aims are summed up in our mission statement:
Enabling aspiration and achievement for all, through delivery of a knowledge-rich curriculum underpinned by our CORE values:
COURAGE OPTIMISM REGARD ENDEAVOUR
This means that staff at Allestree Woodlands continue to review and improve our curriculum to ensure that knowledge acquisition is clear, coherent and that year on year learning builds on what has gone before so that students feel that they are moving forward and knowing more. As I have said to our students, this acquisition of knowledge gives power and confidence to believe in ourselves and put ourselves in new, unfamiliar, challenging and exciting situations in the future. We seek to equip all of our students to use their knowledge to plan for and achieve their next steps and to be aspirational for their futures. To do this, we must both support and challenge all young people to aspire, to dream of what might lie ahead and to work hard to make those ambitious goals possible. Why settle for less than our very best? When aspiration and hard work are combined, people achieve amazing things.
We are lucky to be a thriving school with a growing intake, a wide level 3 subject offer at post-16, superb extra-curricular opportunities in sports, technology and the creative and performing arts as well as possessing tremendous facilities. If you would like to know more, take a look at our website or arrange a visit. We have open evenings planned for this half-term for prospective students and their parents and you are most welcome to come along and get a feel for what Allestree Woodlands is all about.
Mrs G. Penny - Headteacher
Arranging a visit to Allestree Woodlands School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email k.challands@woodlands.derby.sch.uk.
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