Assistant Headteacher

Noadswood School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO45 4ZF

3 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  10 October 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  7 October 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
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L12-L16

What skills and experience we're looking for

Required from January 1st 2026:

The Headteacher, Kathryn Marshall, the Chair of Trustees, Alison Munden and the Vice Chair, Gary O’Flaherty are excited to announce this exciting opportunity to lead in a very popular, happy, steady, welcoming school.

Are you ready to join a team that thrives on the spirit of adventures with our students and staff, opportunities for all, high expectations without fear and a very strong sense of community?

A unique opportunity to join our Leadership Team as an Assistant Headteacher has arisen, owing to the promotion of one of our current team members to work with the Local Authority within their Inclusion Team.

We now seek to appoint an inspirational person with:

1) Strong, assertive, positive and engaging leadership presence around school with all colleagues and young people alike, no matter the challenges of the day;

2) Passion for and experience in Safeguarding, Attendance, Inclusion and SEND;

3) Resolve to sustain strong, transparent partnerships with parents, carers, agencies and other local community members, even in times of challenge or complaint;

4) Excellent leadership capacity, a commitment to self-improvement, reflection and professional learning;

5) A proven track record of rapidly and/or sustainably raising standards and progress across the school in the areas in which you currently work and lead;

6) A cracking sense of humour and of kindness, and real joy for the job and education, all our students, and our entire Noadswood family.

We are very excited to talk to you, if you:

- Are passionate, creative, relentless yet humane about a safe, inclusive culture across our school, and about driving up standards and progress right across all the areas you lead;

- Make no excuses for the capacity of any child and you inspire confidence in colleagues to have the highest expectations for all;

- Have experience of leading teams that fuse superb care for safeguarding, inclusion and wellbeing with the highest aspirations and interventions for academic success, enabling happiness, determination and excellent progress;

- Have energy, presence, gravitas and integrity with colleagues, students, parents, partner schools and agencies alike;

- Demonstrate credibility as an excellent teaching practitioner in your subject(s);

- Understand to your core and exude the leadership behaviours of trustworthiness, honesty, shared values and language, and empowerment of others,

- Have a commitment to research-informed practice, particularly but not exclusively re safeguarding, inclusion or behaviour,

- Are committed to your own professional learning and in the development of other colleagues in our school;

- Have a passion for areas of leadership about which you have experience as well as the flexibility to develop your skills and experience in others.

- If you understand why a litter picker is an important tool of leadership!

What the school offers its staff

We would welcome visits to the school prior to applications – please email headteacher@noadswood.hants.sch.uk if you are interested to do so. We will offer a warm welcome indeed.

Please visit our website for further details and a full job description.

Applications to be sent by email to recruitment@noadswood.hants.sch.uk. Please note CVs are not accepted.

We cannot wait to hear from you!

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

Noadswood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection processes reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks, along with other relevant employment checks.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Noadswood School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1043 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Noadswood School website
• Email address: recruitment@noadswood.hants.sch.uk
• Phone number: 02380840025
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/noadswood-school

What makes Noadswood terrific? Is it:
• Quality specialist teachers across a rich and varied curriculum, and a super record in academic outcomes, Dance, Performing Arts, Poetry and Sport?
• Our pastoral system, combining a proud culture of a House system overarching our year groups, giving young people membership of smaller communities within the school?
• Our drive for the best possible progress for all through research based teaching and learning?
• The way we listen to our students' and colleagues’ ideas for their wellbeing and their community, and bring them all to life?
• The care we have for our parent community, and their suggestions, views and concerns?
It's because of ALL of the above but overarching all of this, it's because we are a warm, welcoming school. We are passionate about educational excellence and to sustaining an honest, kind, inclusive community - we are strongly united on our very best days, at challenging times and at all points in between.

Arranging a visit to Noadswood School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@noadswood.hants.sch.uk.

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