Assistant Headteacher

West Wycombe School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 3AH

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January or as soon as possible after

• Closing date

  17 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: L3 - L7
• Additional allowances:

  L3 - L7

Assistant Headteacher job summary

Are you looking for the next step in your career? We have an exciting leadership opportunity for an excellent practitioner to join our leadership team and drive West Wycombe into their next chapter.

We welcome candidates to visit our school and learn more about this opportunity. Please email office@wwglt.co.uk to arrange a visit.

Key responsibilities

Whole school leadership and management:

- As part of the Leadership Team to develop the school’s vision and policy, to make strategic evaluations of learning and teaching and to lead and manage staff towards achieving the school’s goals.

- To share the strategic vision and values of the school and model these through your everyday work and practice.

- To build the team, motivating others in order to create a shared culture of improvement and a positive learning climate.

- To play a major part in the development of teaching and learning throughout the school.

- To contribute to, and help implement, the School Improvement Plan.

- To provide advice, guidance and support to teachers and subject leaders and model excellent practice.

- To lead and participate in regular staff meetings.

Other professional requirements:

- To set an excellent standard of conduct at all times and to be an inspiring role model for children.

- To establish and maintain positive relationships with parents and the wider community.

- To be responsible for the welfare, safety and professionalism of support staff, students and others working in the classroom and to ensure that they are deployed effectively.

- To take shared responsibility for the school environment and encourage children to have a pride in their school.

- To be supportive of other work colleagues and foster good working relationships and a friendly working environment.

- To promote a positive image of the school and the Trust in the community.

Teaching responsibilities:

- This role will include responsibility for a class as designated by the Executive Headteacher and Head of School.

This overall responsibility will include:

- Planning and preparing lessons

- Teaching pupils according to their educational needs including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in school and elsewhere

- Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils

- Using available assessment data in order to identify gaps in attainment for vulnerable groups including Pupil Premium children and to take action in order to close the gaps

- Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any other class or group of pupils assigned

- Providing guidance and advice to pupils on educational and social matters

- Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils

- Communicating and consulting with parents of pupils

- Communicating and consulting with persons or bodies outside the school and participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described. Providing or contributing to oral and written assessment reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils

- Participating in arrangements made for Appraisal

- Work in conjunction with the Executive Headteacher, Head of School and other teachers on the preparation and development of the curriculum, assessment and pastoral arrangements

- Participating in any meetings which relate to the curriculum, administration or organisation of the school

Personal development:

- In co-operation with the Trust, the Executive Headteacher and the Head of School, be committed to your own personal development and development as a school leader

- To develop and maintain a culture of high expectations for yourself and others

- Rigorously review and reflect about your own practice, keep up to date with developments in the educational landscape and set personal targets

Safeguarding

- Be a DSL to support the safeguarding team within the school

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- Report any child protection concerns immediately, in accordance with school procedures

This job description will be reviewed annually and may be subject to amendment or modification at any time after consultation with the post holder and Governors or Trustees. It is not a comprehensive statement of procedures and tasks but sets out the main expectations of the school and the Great Learners Trust in relation to the post holder’s professional responsibilities and duties.

The Great Learners Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

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 West Wycombe School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 168 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: West Wycombe School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/west-wycombe-school

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