16 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    1st September 2025

  • Closing date

    15 May 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    29 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£60,643.00 - £72,162.00 Annually (Actual)

Assistant Headteacher T&L job summary

Bridge Learning Campus is a popular all-through academy in South Bristol, oversubscribed in almost all year groups from Reception to Year 11. You will take on and shape this new dedicated responsibility at our school, joining an established team who work hard together to transform the life opportunities for our pupils.

Responsible to: Deputy Headteacher (QofEd - Secondary)

Responsible for: Heads of Department, Reading Leadership, EAL coordinator, STEM T&L coordinator

Job Purpose: Under the guidance of the Deputy Headteachers and working alongside the Assistant Headteachers, maximise the standards of teaching across the campus. This will be achieved through the design and delivery of effective CPD, mentoring, coaching, training and support for all teaching staff, including initial teacher trainees and early career teachers, ensuring that teachers’ development is aligned with the campus’ strategic priorities.

  • Strategic leadership of teaching and learning across the campus, but particularly in the secondary phase, through regular participation in meetings of the T&L team.
  • To support the Deputy Headteachers to monitor and evaluate the standards of teaching and learning across the campus.
  • Instil and embed a culture of reading throughout the secondary phase, founded on explicit daily opportunities for reading and enriched by wider strategies that celebrate the value of reading.
  • Ensure the culture for reading is embedded through the introduction of formal practices as well as informal practice
  • Establish a coherent strategy to develop and implement a strategy for the teaching and acquisition of high quality vocabulary.

What are we looking for:

  • A strategic thinker, who can demonstrate how their leadership has improved outcomes for large groups of pupils, especially disadvantage and/or SEND pupils
  • An outstanding practitioner in the classroom – we expect you to be able to model best practice for colleagues, inspiring all to be the best teacher they can be
  • A focused motivator, who can set and realise high expectations of all pupils and of their colleagues, empowering them to build their own success.

Fluency Duty

The ability to converse at ease with pupils, parents and other users of the service and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Why join us?

As a leader within Bridge Learning Campus, you’ll be joining a dedicated and ambitious culture, with many opportunities to reinforce and build upon your professional development, and will be an active part of a transparent, accountable and responsible leadership team that prioritises excellent teaching and direction in all areas for the benefit of learners and staff alike.

Commitment to safeguarding

Trust in Learning (Academies) is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance. Our policy and practice is in line with the Department for Education’s ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ Guidance.

Applying for the job

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About Bridge Learning Campus

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 16
Education phase
Through
School size
1211 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 16
Ofsted report
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