Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion

Dean Trust Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire, M13 0LF

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  10 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 October 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
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £67,898 - £75,049 (L12-L16)

Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion job summary

The Dean Trust is seeking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic Assistant Headteacher; Inclusion to join our dedicated team at Dean Trust Ardwick.

The core purpose of the role will be to contribute to the overall strategic and operational leadership to advance the school’s core purpose. The successful candidate will have specific responsibility for the development of true inclusion across the school, so the needs of all pupils are considered from the outset.

Key responsibilities:

• To demand ambitious standards, expectations and aspirations for all pupils, particularly those with SEND.
• To play a major role, under the direction of the Deputy Headteacher, for setting the key improvement priorities needed to develop and maintain a model of true inclusion; establishing and embedding policies, systems and practice to address key priorities on the journey towards full inclusivity. 
• Coordinate and align the work of key teams, ensuring a consistent, joined-up approach to identifying and responding to pupil needs.
• Develop and coordinate a clear framework of interventions, providing tiered and evidence-informed support to enhance pupil outcomes, wellbeing, and inclusion.
• Contribute to achieving the school’s vision by providing effective strategic and operational leadership. 
• Adopt an evidence-informed approach to lead colleagues to continually improve the school’s ability to identify, assess and support those pupils requiring additional help and guidance.
• To undertake the professional duties of an Assistant Headteacher was reasonably delegated by the Headteacher.

For more information about the role please contact us on 01619 722988 or email emmahurworth@deantrustardwick.co.uk.

Thank you again for your interest in working for The Dean Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.

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 Dean Trust Ardwick

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1339 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dean Trust Ardwick website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dean-trust-ardwick

Dean Trust Ardwick opened in 2015 and are now a fully-fledged Year 7-11 school, serving over 1200 pupils, in the heart of the Ardwick and Longsight community. We pride ourselves on being a local school for local children, and since inception we have become the school of choice for families.

We exist to empower our pupils to find their purpose and thrive as citizens of the world. We provide a knowledge-rich curriculum which exposes pupils to powerful knowledge, places them on an ambitious pathway and develops the character traits needed to seize the opportunities that exist. Through finding their passions we enable pupils to make a positive difference to the world. Our core purpose is not merely finite ‘success’ for our pupils but for them to thrive - continually grow and flourish.

We are explicit about the culture we want to create and have clear ideas of the desired behaviours necessary for our pupils to succeed. At Dean Trust Ardwick, we maintain a relentless focus on the day-to-day actions, behaviours and routines within the school and adopt a disciplined approach to teaching pupils the right and successful ways to do things.

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