Assistant Headteacher (Interim)

Heritage High School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 4QG

33 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January

• Closing date

  4 January 2026 at 3pm

• Date listed

  2 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £68,564.00 - £75,785.00 Annually (Actual)

Assistant Headteacher (Interim) job summary

About this role

Salary: £68,564 - £75,785 per annum

Contract term: Initially January to April 2026

The School:

Heritage High School is located just off junction 30 of the M1, and is a school that has undergone significant improvement in recent years.

The school is a happy, safe, and stimulating place to work and learn with a determination to continually improve. The school strongly believes that learning should be fun, challenging, and stimulating, and that the quality of the people working at the school is fundamental to achieving the ambitions for Heritage High School.

The role:

Assistant Headteachers’ hold an important role in Heritage High school, providing leadership to ensure that the highest possible standards of educational provision are achieved in an atmosphere of high expectations and respectful relationships.

Due to the promotion of the current post holder, we have an interim role for an ambitious Senior Leader to join Heritage from January to April 2026 in the first instance. The post would suit a colleague with pastoral / safeguarding experience.

Our ideal candidate will be a successful leader within the secondary education sector who can demonstrate experience and impact of delivering the sustained, positive impact.

Applications must arrive by: 16:00 on 04 January 2026

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 Heritage High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 951 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Heritage High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heritage-high-school

Information about Heritage High School

Heritage High School is a thriving 11-16 comprehensive school in the heart of our community. Staff at the school are committed to enabling students to push themselves towards their aspirations, and in return students are developing into increasingly mature learners and young adults. We are supported by a strong, effective and aspirational Governing Body.
The key to successful education is to ensure that teaching is consistently high quality across all curriculum areas and that learning is focused and purposeful. To make this happen we are working hard to develop effective, enquiring learners who have real aspiration and take ownership of their own learning.
We provide a core of traditional subjects from Y7 to Y11, and provide high quality guidance to all students on the next steps at post-16. Our facilities are of a high quality, boasting well equipped specialist areas housed in recently constructed buildings. Regular after school learning activities are offered together with wider enrichment opportunities, including residential visits abroad.
We are committed to providing the very best for the young people in our care.

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