Assistant Headteacher - Two Vacancies
Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy, Leyland, Lancashire, PR26 9HH8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
26 August 2025
Closing date
22 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 January 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: Full-time - Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale (L12 to L16)
What skills and experience we're looking for
ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER - EXTRA-CURRICULAR AND WELLBEING
ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER - VULNERABLE GROUPS
Opportunities such as these rarely come up at Bishop Rawstorne. Our current Deputy Headteacher and three of our Assistant Headteachers will be retiring at the end of this academic year creating a unique opportunity to work within our new Senior Leadership Team. The successful applicants will be joining a team of dedicated and supportive professionals, all of whom are committed to leading and delivering strategic school improvement for the benefit of each and every one of our students. Key to your success in this process will be: appropriate experience and professional development for the role, an ability to cultivate and maintain good working relationships across all stakeholders and your commitment to enhancing the life chances of all our young people.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has successful experience in leading strategic school improvement.
- Can maintain positive working relationships with all stakeholders to ensure the best possible outcomes for our students.
- Can motivate, inspire and innovate.
- Has ambition to develop further.
- Is committed to changing the life chances of all our young people - especially the hardest to reach.
How to apply:
Please consult the recruitment pack for further information and use the school's application form to apply. Completed applications should be sent to shosker@bishopr.co.uk (Susan Hosker - Assistant Business Manager).
What the school offers its staff
Why work at Bishop Rawstorne?
- The school enjoys an excellent reputation, with a proven track record of academic excellence and is oversubscribed each year.
- We have inspiring and innovative teaching staff who are supported by talented and motivated support staff - jointly providing the very best learning experiences for our students.
- There is outstanding behaviour from students who enjoy learning and want to progress.
- We continue to invest significantly to improve the facilities and teaching and learning environments. Our premises are set in 20 acres of beautiful grounds within a rural but accessible location.
- We offer personalised and evidence-based CPD and support
all our leaders with NPQ or other equivalent leadership programmes.
Further details about the role
We welcome pre-application visits to our school. Further information is available by contacting shosker@bishopr.co.uk (Susan Hosker – Assistant Business Manager).
Interviews are scheduled to to take place week commencing 27 January 2025.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to bring a completed confidential disclosure form with them on the interview day. The academy will undertake stringent and rigorous checks of identity and qualifications to ensure that we maintain the very highest standards of child protection for our students. The successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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 shosker@bishopr.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 971 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- shosker@bishopr.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01772 600349
Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy is based near Leyland in Lancashire. Our premises are set in 20 acres of beautiful grounds within a rural, but accessible, location. The school has been providing high quality Christian education for over 60 years. It is this Christian message and ethos that underpins the core values that allow us to ensure that students are able to achieve a rounded academic, spiritual, moral, social and cultural education. Bishop Rawstorne is truly a community school with the vast majority of our students being drawn from over 20 primary schools on a community-based and faith-based admissions policy. We have inspiring, innovative and driven teaching staff who are supported by talented and motivated support staff - providing the very best learning experiences for our students, and we are fully committed to the wellbeing and development of all our staff. Bishop Rawstorne remains at the forefront of delivering outstanding teacher training.
Arranging a visit to Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email shosker@bishopr.co.uk.
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