24 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    25 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    28 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

L11-15

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint a future school leader to join our ambitious, successful, and welcoming Senior Leadership Team. The Petersfield School was judged by Ofsted to be outstanding in every category in May 2024 and is a member of the high performing Bohunt Education Trust (BET) partnership.

You will bring us:

  • Passion and the highest levels of ambition for our students;
  • A dynamic and enthusiastic approach combined with excellent interpersonal skills;
  • Commitment to our high expectations of culture;
  • Successful leadership and management experience in your current role;
  • Dedication to maintaining outstanding teaching and learning within the school;
  • A hunger to continually improve the learning experience of our students;
  • The ability to inspire, challenge, motivate and empower teams and individuals to achieve excellence.

In return we will offer you:

  • Considerable and sustained support and development to become an exceptional school leader in the future;
  • Opportunities to work in collaboration across schools within the BET;
  • An enthusiastic and supportive team of staff, committed to raising our high standards further;
  • The opportunity to make a difference.

What the school offers its staff

In return we will offer you:

  • Considerable and sustained support and development to become an exceptional school leader in the future;
  • Opportunities to work in collaboration across schools within the BET;
  • An enthusiastic and supportive team of staff, committed to raising our high standards further;
  • The opportunity to make a difference.

We are one of the highest performing schools in Hampshire and we have a strong heritage as a Performing Arts school. We are a ‘school with a heart’ characterised by excellent relationships between staff and students with consistently outstanding student behaviour. In 2017 we opened a joint Sixth Form with Bohunt School in Liphook. In May 2024, Ofsted reported that “Pupils and staff feel proud to be a part of ‘Team TPS’. Pupils achieve very well academically and grow personally.” and that leaders are passionate in “ensuring all pupils achieve well and enjoy their time at The Petersfield School.”

The school is located in the attractive market town of Petersfield with easy access to the A3 between Guildford and Portsmouth and the M27. We are also five-minute walk from Petersfield station on the mainline between Portsmouth and London.

We are seeking a candidate with significant potential as an outstanding school leader and will support you to become one in an environment of excellence.

Bohunt Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The successful candidate will be subject to pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS checks (including a self-disclosure form), online/social media checks and satisfactory references.

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 recruitment@petersfieldschool.com

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Additional documents

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About The Petersfield School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1396 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Arranging a visit to The Petersfield School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@petersfieldschool.com.

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