Assistant Headteacher (Special)

Lime Academy Hornbeam, London, E17 5NT

36 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  1 May 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  25 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £68,799.00 - £75,433.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership Pay Scales 10 - 14 (Outer London)

Assistant Headteacher (Special) job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 9 schools over 11 locations across Luton, Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools, four all-through special schools and one secondary special school; with 2500+ pupils and over 750 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:

- Learners are safe and enjoy learning

- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

- Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is Putting Learners First. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Overview of the role:

We’re Expanding! Lime Academy Hornbeam is Recruiting for an Assistant Headteacher.

Lime Academy Hornbeam is growing, and we are excited to be working closely with the Local Authority to create additional specialist places for children and young people with complex needs.

As part of this exciting expansion, we are looking to recruit a passionate, dedicated Assistant Headteacher to join our team.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who has:

- Leadership and management of SEND experience

- Experience of leading change and improvement across a school and excellent leadership, organisational and interpersonal skills

- Excellent classroom practice and behaviour management strategies to effectively meet individual learners needs

- Ability to provide pupils with the excitement of a relevant, challenging and creative curriculum that raises standards of education for all

- A clear understanding of the SEND Code of Practice and experience of working with children with a range of complex needs

- High expectations of themselves and others

- Tenacity, passion, drive and ambition

The postholder will be part of the Senior Leadership Team. Please see the attached job description for further details.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact Sean Egan, Headteacher on 0208 503 2225/0208 527 2464 or via email at Hornbeamoffice@limetrust.org to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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 Lime Academy Hornbeam

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 290 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lime Academy Hornbeam website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lime-academy-hornbeam

Lime Academy Hornbeam is special school split over two sites in the London Borough of Waltham Forest for children and young pupil with complex needs including learning difficulties, physical impairment, sensory impairment, ASC and SEMH aged from 2-19.

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