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Assistant Headteacher
Norton Hill Academy, Radstock, Somerset, BA3 4AD15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
15 May 2026 at 9am
Date listed
30 April 2026
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: Full time/permanent
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L12-L16
What skills and experience we're looking for
Assistant Headteacher - Personal Development/Inclusion and Safeguarding including overall DSL responsibility
We are looking for an experienced teacher to join our Leadership Team and spearhead our student support and safeguarding strategy. This person will lead the strategic oversight of personal development/inclusion and safeguarding including overall DSL responsibility across the school.
Norton Hill School is part of the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership which regularly promotes the collaboration and sharing of expertise with other secondary and primary schools focused on school improvement and pupil outcomes.
Norton Hill is a forward thinking, high performing and leading edge school that provides its students with the confidence and skills to play a full and active part in what is a rapidly changing world. It promotes the core traditional values of hard work, outstanding behaviour, dedicated study and personal challenge in all areas. It instils the seven character strengths, namely respect, enthusiasm, curiosity, optimism, determination, empathy and self-control and encourages the students to value and develop these characteristics throughout their time at the school. Norton Hill is a highly successful and heavily oversubscribed school producing results that place the school in the top three schools in B&NES both in terms of progress and attainment every year.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Assist the Headteacher as required
- General duties of SLT
- Support all other aspect of leadership where required by the Headteacher
- DSL and Safeguarding
- School Self Evaluation (shared)
Successful applicants will:
- Be able to motivate, challenge and inspire students to achieve their best
- Establish and develop excellent relationships with students and staff
- Have successful leadership experience at a middle or senior level, with the ability to motivate
- Be tenacious in their commitment to maintaining outstanding results
- Have a deep passion and enthusiasm for their subject
- Be committed to exceptional standards of teaching and learning
- Contribute to our core vision and values
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A school with outstanding behaviour and safety for all
- Excellent facilities for teaching and learning
- A school which effectively uses technologies to support with workload reduction
- Leading edge professional development to support and improve your leadership skills in preparation for further promotion
- An emphasis on Duke of Edinburgh, Ten Tors and other outdoor education for all
- All staff in the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership have the chance to share best practice across age ranges, share resources and work in one or more school
Further information about the job
The school serves Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the surrounding rural area where there is an abundance of attractive and affordable housing. The school is on the edge of the Mendips but close to Bath, Bristol, Frome and Wells.
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to close this advert early should a suitable candidate be found prior to the closing date.
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Norton Hill Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1765 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Norton Hill Academy website
- Email address
- enquiries@nortonhillschool.mnsp.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01761 412557
Norton Hill is a co-educational, non-selective 11-18 school. Our students come from Midsomer Norton and the surrounding villages of North East Somerset. Norton Hill School prides itself on providing a secure, stable and well-ordered environment based on traditional values and genuine care and concern for individuals.
We have just over 1700 students at the school of whom 400 are in the Midsomer Norton Sixth Form. In September 2016 we increased our Year 7 entry to eleven tutor groups, in response to a growing demand for places at Norton Hill.
Students at Norton Hill belong to one of five houses: Blackdown, Cotswold, Exmoor, Mendip and Quantock. The House system ensures that every student is known individually, whilst enjoying the opportunities that a large school can offer.
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