Assistant Headteacher (Incorporating SENDCo & EYFS Lead Roles)
Sandal Magna Community Academy, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 5NF2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Assistant headteacher
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time: FTE Hours Monday - Friday (Possibly 4 days for right candidate)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership L1 - L5
What skills and experience we're looking for
Sandal Magna Community Academy is looking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher to join the Senior Leadership Team. This is a great opportunity for a middle leader who is ready to step up into senior leadership and make a significant contribution to our school or an existing senior leader who wants to experience a different school.
We are proud to belong to Enhance Academy Trust which enables support and collaboration with a large team to happen regularly. We are a 1-form entry primary school with a nursery on site, situated close to the centre of Wakefield.
The successful candidate will be warmly received into the existing leadership structure and will be supported to develop their skills and knowledge to be the best they can be.
With a successful track record of teaching and working as a leader in some capacity, you should have experience of leading change and initiating and implementing improvements with demonstrable impact.
What the school offers its staff
- The support and expertise of the academy’s excellent leadership team with a clear vision of raising standards of teaching and learning.
- Pupils with superb behaviour and a willingness to learn within a learning environment where excellence is our goal.
- An opportunity to work with a passionate and dedicated team of staff.
- A happy, caring and nurturing school community.
- A commitment to support your continued professional development through a network of experienced professions across the primary academies within Enhance Academy Trust.
- Membership to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Physical and mental health support from a team of experienced nurses, counsellors, therapists, physiotherapists, consultants plus NHS GP’s and private medical services.
- GP consultations with experienced NHS doctors are available for our employees, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and prescriptions (which have to be paid for) can be delivered to local chemists.
- Free annual flu jab.
- Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings.
- A paid annual Wellbeing Day – a time for you to use the day for an activity which promotes your own individual health and wellbeing.
- Wherever possible, PPA at home for teachers.
Further details about the role
KEY OUTCOMES/ACTIVITIES
Teaching and Learning
- Carry out teaching duties in accordance with the school's schemes of work and National Curriculum
- Liaise with colleagues to deliver units of work in a collaborate way
- Work with teaching assistants
- Set targets for student attainment levels
- Set work for students absent from school
- Demonstrate good practice in the teaching areas of responsibility
Assessing and Reporting
- Record students' work
- Maintain lesson evaluations
- Mark and return work within agreed time span, providing feedback and targets
- Provide assessment reports to monitor student progress
- Liaise with parents and attend consultation evenings
- Work within the Code of Practice relating to Special Educational Needs
Leadership and Management
- Support and deputise for the head teacher and deputy
- Understand issues relating to the organisation, ordering, and funding of resources
- Support and uphold the school's policies on behaviour, discipline, and bullying
- Develop the curriculum
- Undertake responsibility for SENDCo and EYFS Leader Roles
- Coordinate the delivery of all academy and Enhance Trust policies
- Contribute to staff development activities
- Manage/ deployment of Teaching Assistants and the continuous professional development to maximise their impact in the classroom
Standards and Quality Assurance
- Support the aims and ethos of the school
- Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality, and attendance
- Attend and participate in open evenings and student performances
- Uphold the school's behaviour code and uniform regulations
- Participate in staff training
- Attend team and staff meetings
- Develop links with governors, LEAs, and neighbouring schools
Not all the above duties will need to be performed all the time and will vary according to the needs of the school at any one time. The specific focus for the Assistant Headteacher will be negotiated and agreed at the beginning of each performance management cycle.
In addition to the above duties, the postholder will carry out any other reasonable duties relevant to the role as determined by the Headteacher.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Sandal Magna Community Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 259 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sandal Magna Community Academy website
- Email address
- julie.pratt@sandalmagna.enhanceacad.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01924 767080
One form Primary School located in a multi cultural and diverse community based in Agbrigg, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. EYFS Nursery through to Year 6
Arranging a visit to Sandal Magna Community Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email julie.pratt@sandalmagna.enhanceacad.org.uk.
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