24 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Easter 2026

  • Closing date

    15 January 2026 at 9am

  • Date listed

    22 December 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: Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Leadership Scale L11-L15

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Castle School is looking to appoint a dedicated and committed Assistant Headteacher Inclusion to work with an experienced and committed Leadership Team, to lead on supporting vulnerable students as well as our well-established SEND faculty. This is an excellent opportunity to take on a leadership role, influence whole school strategy and drive inclusive education across the school, raising standards of student attainment and achievement for our SEND and other vulnerable students. This role will also be the named SENDCO.

You will lead all our inclusion work to ensure appropriate provision is in place for all students with SEND and other vulnerabilities. A key task of this role is to ensure that our inclusive provision is both efficiently and effectively managed, with all legal and statutory requirements met for students with SEND.

This is an exciting and varied role, working with staff and students daily, so excellent communication skills are required. The successful candidate will be knowledgeable, approachable and reliable with resilience and commitment to their workload and responsibilities.


What the school offers its staff

We can offer you: An opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow. A friendly, busy and dynamic workplace where each day is different from the last. A competitive salary. Wider opportunities to be involved across our Trust. An energised and professional working environment.

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.

Our school is part of the Blackdown Education Partnership, we believe that our schools should sit at the heart of our communities; that there are no limits to what our children and young people can achieve; and that they should be great places to work and learn.

We are incredibly proud of our Trust and the schools within it. Strong partnerships, collaboration and generosity are the bonds which underpin our collective mission to provide great education for all children no matter what their starting point or their background.

A full job description and application pack is available from www.castleschool.co.uk.

All applications should be made by completing the application form available, including evidence of how you meet the person specification for the role and should be submittedby 9am on the closing date.

Further details are available within the job description and person specification.

Closing date: Thursday 15th January 2026 at 12pm

Interviews: 28th and 29th January 2026


Commitment to safeguarding

Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About The Castle School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary school
School size
1202 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Ofsted report
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School website
The Castle School website
Email address
gduenas@castle.bep.ac
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The Blackdown Education Partnership is a multi-academy trust (MAT) working across Devon and Somerset. It was born of a merger between two established MATs: The Castle Partnership Trust and Uffculme Academy Trust and currently looks after a family of 12 schools: 6 primary and 6 secondary and 4 nurseries.

Blackdown Education Partnership is, therefore, a single organisation established to deliver the education and to safeguard the wellbeing of every child in our Trust. The Trust seeks to ensure that high quality collaboration and system leadership continue to improve the education in our schools. We are responsible for the good governance of the schools within our Trust and are accountable for the performance of each school. We work with an exceptional team of leaders, teachers and support staff whose combined efforts deliver on our promise to believe in every child.

We can offer you: An opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow. A friendly, busy and dynamic workplace where each day is different from the last. A competitive salary. Wider opportunities to be involved across our Trust. An energised and professional working environment.

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