Assistant Headteacher (Regional)

Springwell Special Academy, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71 2AY

28 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  10 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  12 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £69,596.00 - £76,772.00 Annually (Actual) L13 - L17 scale point

Assistant Headteacher (Regional) job summary

Shape the Future Across Four Specialist Schools

We are searching for an exceptional and experienced senior leader to take on a dynamic, regional role at the heart of our innovative partnership. To succeed, you must be excited by the prospect of travelling between our schools, adept at retaining and synthesising information from four unique settings, and ready to apply a wide range of transferable skills. This is not a traditional Assistant Headteacher position; it's a flexible, responsive role for a leader with proven expertise across a spectrum of relevant areas, ready to make a significant, system-wide impact.

Are you a passionate and collaborative leader ready to amplify your impact? We are seeking an experienced Assistant Headteacher to join our forward-thinking school partnership. This is a unique opportunity to work across multiple schools, driving consistent improvement and fostering a shared culture of high achievement and inclusion. You will be a pivotal force in our partnership team, empowering potential and inspiring growth for every pupil. If you believe that our greatest strength lies in working together, come and make a real difference with us.

Our Partnership

The Special Provision Partnership is a dynamic collaboration between four leading specialist schools and an Alternative Provision in Yorkshire: Greenacre School, Joseph Norton Academy, Springwell Special School and Springwell Alternative Academy.

As proud partners of Wellspring Academy Trust, we are united by a single, powerful vision:

• To make a profound difference by raising the expectations and ambitions of every young person in our care.

We support some of the region’s most brilliant and deserving children, creating nurturing and inclusive environments where they can thrive. Our teams work creatively to provide an educational offer that truly prepares our pupils for a successful and fulfilling adult life.

A Role Designed for Impact

As a Regional Assistant Headteacher, you will champion excellence and consistency across our four sites in Huddersfield and Barnsley. Your portfolio will be fluid and designed to meet the evolving needs of our partnership.

This will involve leading on a range of strategic areas, which may include:

• School Development & Improvement

• Curriculum & Assessment Innovation

• Teaching & Learning Strategy

• HR & Staff Development Initiatives

• Building Community and External Partnerships

Some of these will be long-term strategic responsibilities, while others will be short-term, high-impact “task and finish” projects, offering you unparalleled variety and the chance to effect change where it’s needed most. Your Initial Focus From day one, you will be instrumental in driving a key strategic priority for our partnership. Your initial focus will be to support the development of our vocational curriculum, expand work experience opportunities, provide high-quality coaching and mentoring for our brilliant instructors and enhance our pupil enrichment offer.

Are You the Leader We’re Looking For?

This is a fantastic opportunity for a resilient and inspiring leader who:

• Has a proven track record of successful senior leadership within an educational setting, ideally with experience in SEN, SEMH, or Alternative Provision.

• Is a natural coach and mentor, passionate about developing the practice of others.

• Thrives on variety and is a strategic thinker capable of managing multiple complex projects simultaneously.

• Possesses exceptional interpersonal skills, able to build trust and foster strong collaborative relationships quickly with students, staff, and external partners.

• Is highly adaptable, organised, and genuinely excited by the prospect of working flexibly across different school environments.

Why Choose Us?

We guarantee a rewarding and varied position where your impact will be seen every day. In return for your expertise, skill, and commitment, you will receive:

• Unparalleled Collaboration: Work alongside a cohesive and deeply committed team of leaders and practitioners, all focused on a shared mission.

• Strategic Influence: This unique regional role gives you a platform to influence practice and strategy at a partnership-wide level.

• Your Professional Growth: Benefit from tailored CPD opportunities within the partnership and across the wider Wellspring Academy Trust to advance your leadership capabilities.

• A Culture of Wellbeing: Join a welcoming and supportive environment where your professional and personal wellbeing is a genuine priority.

• Endless Opportunity: As part of a supportive and growing Trust, the opportunities for collaboration, development, and career progression are outstanding.

NEXT STEPS
For more information please refer to the job description attached. If you are interested in this excellent opportunity simply click APPLY NOW alternatively if you have additional questions then please get in touch: recruitment@sppartnership.co.uk To reiterate, we welcome any visits or informal discussions before application.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
We want our people to reflect our diverse communities and create a safe space in which everyone belongs. We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and especially those from under-represented groups including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks and appropriate references. All posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
We are part of a fabulous partnership, if this post isn't suitable then please review our other vacancies. You can find these here. We have the right to close/ extend this advert prior to the advertised closing date.

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Springwell Special Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 122 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Springwell Special Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/springwell-special-academy

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