Assistant Headteacher – Personal Development

The Birley Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S12 3BP

Deadline is today

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  15 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 63,815 - 70,293

Assistant Headteacher – Personal Development job summary

Are you excited about making pupils' school experience enriched, expansive and rewarding?

Are you keen to ensure that pupils leave school with superb general knowledge, understanding of the wider world, and high levels of respect and tolerance?

Are you motivated by working in a leadership team of enthusiastic, hard-working, vivacious individuals?

Then this is the role for you!

We are looking for an Assistant Headteacher who can take hold of Personal Development and develop it to be exemplary within our school. You will be passionate about PSHE, committed to careers, excited by extra-curricular and ready to vivify our values! You will be keen to take hold of an area and lead it with energy and autonomy, working closely with leaders and colleagues to #makeBirleybrilliant!

After consultation with our pupils and staff last summer, we are proud to have Respect, Kindness, Courage, Integrity and Ambition as our core values in school. Our personal development offer in school needs to help exemplify these values as well as meeting contextual and community needs. This post is an opportunity to really make a difference in a school which is ready to fly!

We would love you to come and visit, so you can meet our team, pupils and see if your passion and vision matches ours, please get in touch to arrange a visit.

 

 

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About The Birley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1091 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Birley Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-birley-academy

The Birley Academy is a popular secondary academy in the southeast of Sheffield. We have a modern building set on a pleasant campus with excellent facilities.

We believe that our students are entitled to nothing but the best and are fully committed to transforming the school into an exceptional place to learn.

We can offer you students who are keen to become their best selves; student who will make you remember why working in a school is so special; staff who are hardworking and who want the best for our school; a

leadership team who are passionate and dedicated to making The Birley Academy brilliant and a supportive and aspirational Trust.

Our vision is simple: to ensure that we constantly challenge ourselves and our students to aspire to our very best, enjoying learning and being active members of the learning community. As part of the L.E.A.D. Academy Trust, we work with all stakeholders including parents, local businesses, community leaders and our partner primaries to represent and best meet the needs of our students.

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