Assistant Headteacher
St Giles School, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 7NJ33 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 September 2025, or sooner by agreement
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L9 - L13
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our staff, learners and governors are keen to appoint an enthusiastic, innovative, skilled and highly motivated Assistant Headteacher to join our team. Applications are always invited from excellent candidates, who have proven ability, creativity, vision and strong leadership practice.
When it comes to leaders, we would love to receive applications from practitioners who are committed to their own development and progression, with senior leadership experience.
Due to the high levels of demand for places we are growing rapidly and have recently opened a new site and will be opening new classes in September 2025.
Successful candidates will:
- Be an excellent and inspirational practitioner with a commitment to high standards and progress for learners who have special educational needs and/or disabilities;
- Be a creative and innovative leader who is able to inspire and motivate colleagues;
- Be a strong team member with excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills;
- Have a creative approach to learning and a willingness to participate in the wider life and broader developments of the school;
- Have a commitment to providing broad, exciting and life-changing opportunities;
- Demonstrate the capacity to raise standards that improve outcomes for pupils and staff;
- Have high expectations of children’s achievements and behaviour.
What the school offers its staff
At St Giles we have:
- Amazing, capable and enthusiastic learners;
- A commitment to team work, a strong team and a belief in providing learning opportunities that change lives;
- An innovative and exciting approach to learning and teaching;
- The highest expectations of learners’ behaviour to learning and achievements;
- Purpose-built school buildings, designed to enable staff to meet the holistic needs of children and young people who have special educational needs and/or disabilities;
- A range of health and wellbeing benefits, such as counselling, physiotherapy and weekly fresh fruit deliveries.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to rfletcher@st-giles.notts.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Giles School
- School type
- Special school, ages 3 to 18
- School size
- 169 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- St Giles School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- mrooney@st-giles.notts.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01777703683
St. Giles is a friendly and aspirational school for children and young people aged 3-18 with a broad range of special educational needs, from moderate/severe to profound and multiple, which includes those with autism. We are situated in the market town of Retford and our school serves the whole of the Bassetlaw area, which is the most northerly district of Nottinghamshire.
Our pupils are encouraged to work in a stimulating and caring environment, where they are taught that ‘no dreams are out of reach’. Our aim is to develop the full potential of individual children involving teachers, other professionals and parents in partnership.
St. Giles School develops the full potential our pupils by providing a broad based and balanced curriculum which is individually tailored to the needs of each pupil. Curriculum includes National Curriculum and its pre-requisites, sensory education, communication skills, a wide ranging personal and social education programme, mobility education, and a well-developed post 16 education programme.
Arranging a visit to St Giles School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mrooney@st-giles.notts.sch.uk.
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