Assistant Headteacher
Westfield School, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5BE14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026 or April 2026
Closing date
9 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Group Pay Range 5-12 (£57,137 - £67,898)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you want to join a happy, collaborative and effective staff team committed to ensuring our children with SEN make real world progress? Westfield is a successful and stable primary special school, expanding (yet again) to meet demand for special school places.
We are looking for someone who will:
- Demonstrate good safeguarding practice and a commitment to fostering children’s well-being and positive mental health
- Be able to build sound, professional and positive relationships with pupils, families, staff and governors
- Be committed to working with children and families with SEND
- Have experience of teaching pupils with SEND and enabling progress, with the ability to explain and demonstrate this
- Have a track record of successfully delivering learning opportunities to young people.
- Have knowledge of Autistic Spectrum Condition and support children who display challenging behaviours related to these needs
- Have a passion for developing children’s skills and learning
- Have been involved in using evidence to identify school development priorities and the school improvement cycle
- Be able to work in partnership with families, external agencies and schools
- Have had experience of leading and managing teams to ensure continuous development and the promotion of exciting, creative and needs relevant learning experiences for pupils
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information.
What the school offers its staff
“Staff are happy and proud to work at the school. They feel highly valued by leaders and are highly motivated to help pupils achieve their best.” Ofsted Inspection Report February 2024.
The Headteacher and Governors are looking to appoint a passionate and committed Assistant Headteacher to join our established, experienced leadership team. The successful candidate will work with our Teaching Team, (including Specialist Teachers, HLTAs and Learning support Assistants), our Leadership Team and our extended support team to meet the needs of our children in our successful primary special school.
Flexibility, humour and willingness to go the extra mile are essential for all staff to ensure a high standard of support for all our pupils.
Westfield is a calm, friendly and exciting place to work with superb space and facilities, a committed and welcoming team of staff and governors and strong, supportive management. We can offer you:
- Professional development opportunities
- Innovative approaches to teaching and learning
- A positive, caring and forward-thinking environment
- Frequent and regular bespoke training and support to fully develop your skills, knowledge and understanding of SEN
Please see the attached School Information and visit www.westfieldschoolbucks.org for more information
Further information about the job
If you would like to find out more about our school or arrange an informal discussion with Tara Deakes, Headteacher, please contact the school office by telephone 01628 533125 or email recruitment@westfield.bucks.sch.uk.
An application pack is attached. You can also obtain one using the contact details above or by visiting our website www.westfieldschoolbucks.org.
Completed applications should be emailed to recruitment@westfield.bucks.sch.uk. Only applications submitted on the current Buckinghamshire Council application form will be considered. Please note we do not accept CV’s.
Interview date: w/c Monday 17th November 2025 - Applications will be considered on receipt and we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. We reserve the right to interview candidates and withdraw the post if an appointment is made.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Westfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS, Teaching Regulation Agency, childcare disqualification, qualification and reference checks.
As part of the shortlisting process, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on the shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Westfield School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 11
- School size
- 80 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Westfield School website
- Email address
- recruitment@westfield.bucks.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01628 533125
Westfield School is a primary aged special school for children who experience Communication and Interaction difficulties within the moderate learning difficulties range. We are continuing to expand so that more children can benefit from our provision and are increasing our staffing to support this.
Arranging a visit to Westfield School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@westfield.bucks.sch.uk.
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