Assistant Headteacher
Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 1UF3 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
1 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday 32 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L3 to L7
What skills and experience we're looking for
Assistant Headteacher Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in the development and refinement of our Curriculum.
- Foster a positive school culture that encourages student engagement and promotes high academic standards.
- Support colleagues with ongoing CPD and monitor Teaching Development strategies
- Collaborate with teachers, staff, and parents to create an inclusive environment conducive to learning and progress.
- Work alongside the Senior Leadership Team to plan, deliver and assess effective CPD
- Model excellent teaching and learning and have high expectations for all pupils
- Support in the management of school budgets and resources, for example, supporting subject leaders to invest in excellent resources and manage staffing rotas
- Alongside the Headteacher, monitor student progress through assessments and evaluations, making necessary adjustments to instructional strategies.
- Engage with the community to promote partnerships that enhance educational opportunities for students.
- Address student behavioural issues in a fair and consistent manner while promoting positive behaviour throughout the school.
- Work alongside the Headteacher to ensure strategies to support disadvantaged pupils to progress with urgency
Teaching Responsibilities of successful candidate:
- Develop and implement engaging lesson plans that align with the curriculum and cater to diverse learning styles and needs.
- Educate students in subjects spanning the national curriculum - ensuring comprehension and retention of crucial knowledge.
- Create a safe and inclusive classroom environment that encourages student participation and collaboration.
- Monitor and assess student progress, providing feedback to students and parents as necessary within your class.
- Employ effective behaviour management techniques to maintain a conducive learning atmosphere.
- Communicate regularly with parents, colleagues, and school administration regarding student performance and classroom activities.
Qualifications and Skills Required
- A recognised qualification in education or a related field is essential, such as Qualified Teacher Status from a University in the UK.
- Previous experience in an educational leadership role is highly desirable, for example, Core Subject Leadership; phase leadership or a serving Assistant Headteacher.
- Strong understanding of curriculum development and instructional strategies that enhance student learning.
- Experience and understanding of Curriculum Delivery of both Key Stage 1 and 2 is desirable
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead teams, manage conflicts, and inspire others towards achieving common goals.
- Commitment to continuous professional development and staying current with educational trends and best practices.
- A passion for educating young minds and fostering a love for learning within the school community.
We offer a supportive, positive working environment; a forward-thinking, committed staff and leadership team; enthusiastic children and parents; wellbeing of colleagues at the heart of our approach.
As an organisation, we are committed to the safeguarding of all children in our care. The successful candidate will be required to complete a DBS Disclosure in line with Section 115 of the Police Act 1997.
If you wish to apply for this post, please request a SSET Trust application pack by emailing recruitment@manorlodge.sheffield.sch.uk or download a pack from our website.
You are welcome to contact the school directly on 0114 2725054 if you require any further information.
What the school offers its staff
The Leaders and Governors of Manor Lodge Community Primary School are seeking a passionate, dedicated and enthusiastic Assistant Headteacher to join our wonderful school. This position has become available due to the successful promotion of our current Assistant Headteacher.
Manor Lodge Community Primary School is a richly diverse, inner-city school with happy and enthusiastic children; a dedicated staff team; supportive parents/carers and a strong, dedicated governing body. The school has a cultural ethos of belonging and inclusion which supports our children and family’s way beyond the classroom walls. We are a true ‘Community School’ and the heartbeat of our local area. Please visit our website for further information www.manorlodge.school
We are seeking a dedicated and visionary Assistant Headteacher to enhance our Senior Leadership Team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for educating students and fostering an environment that promotes academic excellence, professional growth and improvement within our staff team and a passion for strong community engagement.
As an Assistant Headteacher, you will be responsible for Curriculum Overview; Teaching and Learning standards through Key Stage 1 and 2. You will also work alongside the Headteacher to help lead the school’s assessment processes; Pupil Premium strategy and Community Engagement projects. There will be some classroom responsibility with this role, where the successful candidate will have a teaching responsibility for 2/2.5 days per week with exact timings to be confirmed following recruitment.
The school is part of the Sheffield South East Trust (SSET) which was formed in 2016 and unites seven local primary schools. The schools within our Trust work closely together for the benefit of the children and communities they serve. There are many opportunities for support, training and networking between the schools to support the successful candidate’s ongoing professional development and ambition in the teaching profession. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate to take the next step on their leadership journey, joining a school and Trust with a strong track record of enabling colleagues to progress and develop their own professional credentials in a supportive environment. For Assistant Headteachers, this would include termly meetings with other Assistant and Deputy Headteachers within our locality working on projects such as Budget / HR protocols.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to buntingj@manorlodge.sheffield.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 376 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School website
- Email address
- buntingj@manorlodge.sheffield.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01142725054
This is an exciting opportunity!
Sheffield South East Trust seeks a HLTA to start in September 2024, at
Manor Lodge Community Primary School.
This school serves a diverse and established community in the south east of the city.
In December 2016 the School converted to academy status becoming part of
Sheffield South East Trust (SSET), which unites six local schools (Manor Lodge
Primary, Wybourn Primary, Phillimore Primary, Norfolk Primary, Woodhouse West
Primary and Acres Hill Primary). https://www.sset.education/ These schools work
closely together for the benefit of the children and communities they serve. There are
many opportunities for support, training and networking between the schools, which
are all rated ‘Good’ by OFSTED.
Manor Lodge Primary is a popular school and is currently oversubscribed within the
community. It was judged ‘Good’ by OFSTED in October 2019, under the most
recent framework. The school is committed to being highly inclusive and strives to
deliver a truly creative curriculum. The school has a newly built Specialist Integrated
Resource for FS and KS1 pupils with an EHCP indicating social and communication
needs. Early Years education is firmly embedded and the school has a dedicated FS
base. The school has extensive grounds and utilises them well. Manor Lodge
Primary is a vibrant and outward-looking school. The successful candidate will have
the opportunity to work with all stakeholders, continuing to move the school forward,
within a supportive local Trust. The Trust aims for schools to grow and flourish, by
being individual and closely aligned with the community they serve, whilst having
strong networks with other, similar, local schools in SSET.
Arranging a visit to Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email buntingj@manorlodge.sheffield.sch.uk.
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