Assistant Headteacher - Raising Standards/Initial Teacher Training
Northfleet School for Girls, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8AQ24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
15 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Scale L12 - L16
Assistant Headteacher - Raising Standards/Initial Teacher Training job summary
Thank you for your interest in our Assistant Headteacher role.
We are excited to offer you the opportunity to join us as we continue to build on our vision in our rapidly expanding and successful school!
All our Assistant Headteacher's have whole school responsibilities and lead a 'College'. In this role you will act as Raising Standards Leader (RSL) and lead on school provision for Initial Teacher Training (ITT), Early Career Teacher (ECT) and Unqualified Teachers to ensure the best learning in our school.
Additionally, you will lead the Athena College which consists of an academic faculty of subjects (Art, Photography, Craft, Textiles, Performing Arts, Music, Media/Film), line manage the Subject Leaders and pastorally leading the ‘College’ of students across all year groups. This is a highly rewarding role enabling Assistant Headteacher’s to develop a wider range of academic and pastoral leadership skills.
Why work at our school?
We benefit from very low staff turnover, with the majority of appointments being due to expansion roles. Staff feedback shows the following reasons to work at our school:
- Excellent student behaviour; our students enjoy working with us
- A positive and supportive culture amongst the staff team including an active staff wellbeing group and approachable leadership team
- A dedication to career development through internal and externally recognised training programmes. This has led to over 60% of staff (teaching and support) experiencing at least one internal promotion
- A school with excellent facilities and continued future developments, including:
- Fitness suite, with free access for staff outside school hours
- Community Farm, with a whole range of animals from bearded dragon to pigs and goats!
- Art Gallery
- Recording studio
- Professional Performing Arts spaces
- New projects such as additional classrooms, new science labs, 3G football pitch and enhanced MUGA (Multi-use games area)
- A highly generous approach to staff absence for personal reasons such as family events or those special treat occasions
- Excellent IT facilities including interactive display screens in all classrooms, 1 to 1 laptop scheme and touchscreen staff laptops for all
- A rich and varied curriculum, including our 'Dream Big' days, IB World School status, our Be Training (Performing Arts) Academy and NSfG Academy in partnership with SEFA Women
- A school that believes in having fun throughout the year, including:
- Christmas and summer whole school trips
- NSfG 'Christmas Day', including the infamous staff panto!
- Yearly student Colour Run
- College Cup competitions, including talent shows, World Book Day dress up and 'talk like a pirate day'
- Regular culture-based celebrations led by our One School Students Ambassadors
- Over 180 school trips in the last academic year!
Please visit our website and see the attached documents for further information on the school and the role.
We welcome any candidate who may wish to visit for an informal tour or conversation in advance of applying. If you would like to take up this opportunity, please contact Mrs Annable to arrange - j.annable@nsfg.org.uk.
Northfleet Schools for Girls is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 statutory guidance.
Commitment to safeguarding
Northfleet School for Girls and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 statutory guidance.
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.
About Northfleet School for Girls
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1283 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Northfleet School for Girls website
Northfleet School for Girls is a vibrant and caring school with a great community feel. Over recent years we have been growing rapidly (62% increase in student roll since 2017) and we believe this is down to the following key areas:
- A real passion to develop the whole student as well as achieve excellent academic progress
- A dedicated staffing team who really care and a clear commitment by leaders to staff wellbeing
- Great student behaviour and engagement, allowing staff and students to flourish
Our vision is that all students should "dream big and achieve" through the following:
- High expectations in all aspects of school life including uniform, attendance, behaviour and academic achievement
- Working together through truly valuing positive working relationships with staff, students and parents
- Enjoying the journey, we strongly believe that all involved in our community can enjoy being at our school and create lasting positive memories.
We are at a very exciting stage of realising our aspirational vision through the following:
- Very strong academic achievement, significantly above Kent similar school averages
- Continued oversubscription across school
- A key emphasis that we are not an exam factory, we seek to develop the whole person with equal importance to academic performance
- Valuing and developing our committed staff team through wellbeing support and further career opportunities
- A strong financial position allowing us to invest for the future
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