Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion

Marshalls Park Academy, Romford, Essex, RM1 4EH

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April/September 2026 (to be negotiated)

• Closing date

  23 February 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  5 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £73,708.00 - £80,884.00 Annually (FTE)

Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion job summary

Marshalls Park Academy is seeking to appoint a passionate and forward-thinking Assistant Headteacher to lead and develop our inclusive practice across the school. This is a key leadership role, with strategic oversight of SEND, pastoral care, and provision for vulnerable learners.

The successful candidate will have enthusiasm, determination and emotional intelligence and will support the whole-school team ethos in our aim of offering an outstanding educational experience for every child.

The Trust seeks applications from candidates who have:

• - Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

• - National Award for SEN Coordination (NASENCO) or currently undertaking the qualification.

• - Proven experience in leading inclusion or SEND in a secondary or senior school context.

• - Deep understanding of inclusive education, safeguarding, and the wider pastoral needs of young people.

• - Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills.

• - Commitment to driving high expectations for all learners.

Why Marshalls Park Academy?

Marshalls Park Academy is a vibrant, over-subscribed, mixed secondary school of 11-16 year olds. Situated in Romford, in the London Borough of Havering, we currently have 1200 students on roll. Having rapidly expanded, we now accept 240 spaces into our Year 7 cohort. The school has an excellent reputation within the local community, which is enhanced every year with our ever-improving academic performance and widening student achievements.

We are an Ofsted ‘Good’ school (2020), which “pupils are proud to attend” with “a strong sense of community”. Our staff are well-supported and enjoy working at the school; they “appreciate leaders’ support to reduce their workload and promote their well-being.”

Why SWECET?

At South West Essex Community Education Trust, we are passionate about providing the best start in life for our pupils. We are united in the belief that every young person needs and deserves an education that will maximise their future life chances.

We place our pupils’ needs at the heart of everything we do and support our colleagues in delivering high-quality education. Our vision is to establish a national reputation for the quality of education we provide.

Our academies are united by the things that make us both similar and unique - the DNA that ties us all together. The SWECET DNA is made up of the following components: Developing our people, Nurturing our differences, and Aspiring for excellence.

We believe that our colleagues are our most precious resource to provide high-quality learning experiences for all our pupils. Our colleagues work hard to support teams in their own schools and across the Trust and in return, the SWECET Wellbeing Charter sets out our actions to support our colleagues.

If you have energy and passion in abundance and would relish the opportunity to be part of our team, we look forward to hearing from you. Visits from prospective candidates are warmly welcomed and encouraged. To arrange a visit, please email recruitment@swecet.org.

If interested in this vacancy, please submit your application for the position as soon as possible as we may close the advertisement early.

South West Essex Community Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants for this post must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including reference checks with previous employers, online checks and an enhanced DBS check with the Disclosure & Barring Service

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 Marshalls Park Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1175 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Marshalls Park Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/marshalls-park-academy

Our vision is to ensure that all of our students are enabled to achieve to the very best of their ability and beyond. We will achieve this by ensuring that every lesson counts; through good and outstanding teaching and focusing on the individual needs of each and every student. In many respects, our philosophy is straightforward; we want all of our students to receive an excellent education to help them to prepare for their future lives.
It is an exciting time at the school as we expand to 1200 students over the next five years, and the associated site developments that will allow, that will help this very popular school move into its next phase. More importantly, we believe passionately that to achieve lasting school improvement, the critical element is the investment a school places in its staff, and that starts from recruiting the best teachers and ambitious leaders to instil that climate of change in the school.

Neil Frost, Headteacher

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