Assistant Headteacher (Personal Development & Belonging)
Newmarket Academy, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 0EB15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025 or as soon as possible
Closing date
12 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): 33.25 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L 12-16 (FTE: £65,286-£72,162 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We need an inspirational and strategic leader who can bring creativity and innovation to the personal development we offer our students and a commitment to excellence in safeguarding whilst promoting belonging across our school and our community.
The successful candidate will be highly visible, collaborative and inspirational, committed to raising standards both in their areas of responsibility and across the school.
You will:
- Lead personal development and belonging across the school and community: student leadership, careers, extracurricular opportunities, working with our parent association and enhancing our already strong links with organisations and other schools across the town
- Strategically lead attendance and be committed to working in partnership.
- Support the Headteacher in delivery of the school vision, for all students.
- Manage and motivate members of the school team, including teaching and support staff.
- Be committed to developing high standards of teaching and learning and the professional development of staff needed to achieve this.
- Have high expectations that motivate, support and challenge teachers and students alike.
- Have excellent communication skills.
What the school offers its staff
Newmarket Academy is a community school on a journey to embed and sustain the significant improvements we have made. We are ambitious to ‘be the best we can be’ for the children who attend our school. Our core values- respectful, responsible, resilient- capture our approach and we are looking for a leader to join us who can model our values and challenge us all to be even better.
We are proud to have been appointed the first lead secondary school in the country for developing the CUSP curriculum (Curriculum Unity Schools Partnership) at secondary level. The CUSP curriculum is well established in the UK and internationally. CUSP is guided by evidence-led curriculum structures, such as retrieval, spaced retrieval practice and interleaving. It is underpinned by explicit vocabulary instruction and research-focused pedagogy. Combining these has led to exceptional outcomes for young people, as a result of coherent curriculum design and instructional teaching.
Newmarket Academy is part of Unity Schools Partnership, aforward-thinking academy trust of 39 schools. At Unity, we value our people, and we have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice.You will be part of our trust’s senior leaders’ network and will have development opportunities at regular intervals including our leadership events and other trust opportunities. Unity Schools Partnership celebrates both professional development and career progression. The Teaching school which is part of Unity will support the successful candidate in this post and their future career.
Newmarket Academy is part of Unity Schools Partnership, aforward-thinking academy trust of 39 schools. At Unity, we value our people, and we have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice.You will be part of our trust’s senior leaders’ network and will have development opportunities at regular intervals including our leadership events and other trust opportunities. Unity Schools Partnership celebrates both professional development and career progression. The Teaching school which is part of Unity will support the successful candidate in this post and their future career.
Commitment to safeguarding
Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safer recruitment, equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Newmarket Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 831 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Newmarket Academy website
- Email address
- snewby@newmarketacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01638 664412
Arranging a visit to Newmarket Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email snewby@newmarketacademy.co.uk.
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