Assistant Headteacher with Trust Improvement Support
Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy, Huddersfield, HD3 4HA29 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
17 April 2026 at 1pm
Date listed
19 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £55,747.00 - £61,534.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership scale 4 - 8
Assistant Headteacher with Trust Improvement Support job summary
Assistant Headteacher with Trust Improvement Support
To commence September 2026.
We are looking to recruit an outstanding Assistant Head. If you would like to ask a question or speak to someone regarding looking around our school please contact Kelly Chapman - Administration Manger on 01484505229.
JOB SUMMARY
At least two days undertaking trust wide improvement work with the remainder of the week based in a Share MAT Primary.
Reporting to the Headteacher in the base school, plus Executive Principal for trust-wide improvement activity.
Contract type Permanent - Full-time
Grade / salary Leadership scale 4-8
Please note that this post initially has the base school as Luck Lane, A SHARE Primary Academy, however this may/will be subject to change in the future based upon the needs of the Trust.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Overall purpose and description of the role
The postholder will:
Model high standards of curriculum planning, teaching and assessment in their own classroom
Support, challenge, train and coach fellow teachers, to secure improved standards and outcomes across the trust
Devise and deliver high quality training/support programmes for trust colleagues
Undertake and contribute to quality assurance reviews
Work with the Executive Principal, to plan and deliver specific improvement projects in trust primary schools
This is an excellent opportunity to work across a trust, alongside committed, friendly colleagues, who are keen to provide the best possible education for children in our care. The successful candidate will be given plenty of support but also have the opportunity to develop and implement fresh ideas for delivering exciting lessons of the highest quality.
Key Responsibilities & Specifications
This section is designed to describe the role in more detail. It cannot cover every eventuality or activity.
Under the direction of Executive Principal and your ‘base’ headteacher you will be required to:
Strategic Leadership
- Help establish and sustain the trust’s ethos and strategic direction.
- Develop policies and strategies to support the highest standards of behaviour and attendance, in consultation with appropriate members of the school’s and trust’s community.
- Contribute to the creation of a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life.
- Uphold ambitious educational standards which prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life.
- Promote positive and respectful relationships across the trust community and a safe, orderly and inclusive environment.
- Ensure a culture of high staff professionalism.
- Ensure the protection and safety of pupils and staff through effective approaches to safeguarding as part of the duty of care.
Teaching and curriculum
- Establish and sustain high-quality, expert teaching, built upon an evidence-informed understanding of effective teaching and how pupils learn.
- Ensure teaching is underpinned by high levels of subject expertise and approaches which respect the distinct nature of subject disciplines or specialist domains.
- Help to establish a broad, structured and coherent curriculum entitlement which sets out the knowledge, skills and values that will be taught.
- Establish effective curricular leadership, developing subject leaders with high levels of relevant expertise.
- Ensure valid, reliable and proportionate approaches are used when assessing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum.
Behaviour
- Help establish and sustain high expectations of behaviour for all pupils, built upon relationships, rules and routines, which are understood clearly by all staff and pupils.
- Support the establishment of high standards of pupil behaviour and courteous conduct, in accordance with the trust’s behaviour policy.
- Implement consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour.
- Help ensure that adults within the trust, model and teach the behaviour of a good citizen.
- Additional and special educational needs and disabilities.
- Ensure the trust holds ambitious expectations for all pupils with additional and special educational needs and disabilities.
- Help establish and sustain culture and practices that enable pupils to access the curriculum and learn effectively.
- Contribute to working effectively in partnership with parents, carers and professionals, to identify the additional needs and special educational needs and disabilities of pupils, providing support and adaptation where appropriate.
- Contribute to the trust’s obligation to fulfil its statutory duties with regard to the SEND code of practice.
Working in partnership
- Forge constructive relationships beyond the school, working in partnership with parents, carers and the local community.
- Work successfully with other schools, particularly other trust academies in a climate of mutual challenge and support.
- Establish and maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues across other public services to improve educational outcomes for all pupils.
Governance and accountability
- Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, upholding an obligation to give account and accept responsibility.
- Provide reports and attend meetings that enable trustees or governing bodies to fulfil their statutory and strategic responsibilities.
- Where required, develop a professional working relationship with trustees and/or local governors.
- Ensure your staff teams, or teams you are supporting externally, know and understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account.
- Help to ensure the trust effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties.
Continuous school improvement
- Deliver effective training, coaching and support for trust teachers and leaders - or those in other schools the trust is supporting.
- Make use of effective and proportional processes of evaluation to identify and analyse complex or persistent problems and barriers, which limit school effectiveness, and identify priority areas for improvement.
- Develop appropriate evidence-informed strategies for improvement as part of well-targeted plans which are realistic, timely, appropriately sequenced and suited to the school’s context.
- Ensure careful and effective implementation of improvement strategies, which lead to sustained school improvement over time.
Professional development
- Ensure staff have access to high-quality, sustained professional development opportunities, aligned to balance the priorities of trust-wide improvement and team/individual needs.
- Prioritise the professional development of staff, ensuring effective planning, delivery and evaluation which is consistent with the approaches laid out in the standard for teachers’ professional development.
- Ensure that professional development opportunities draw on expert provision from beyond the school, as well as within it, including nationally recognised career and professional frameworks and programmes to build capacity and support succession planning.
Ethics and Professional Conduct
All staff are expected to uphold consistently high standards of ethical and professional behaviour. In your role, you must demonstrate integrity, accountability, and leadership in line with the Seven Principles of Public Life:
- Selflessness
- Integrity
- Objectivity
- Accountability
- Openness
- Honesty
- Leadership
As a representative of the trust, the post-holder must:
- Build respectful, professional relationships and maintain appropriate boundaries.
- Show tolerance and respect for others, embracing cultural diversity.
- Uphold fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect.
- Ensure personal beliefs do not influence or compromise professional responsibilities.
In your role in the Trust, you are expected to:
- Act in the best interests of the trust and its community.
- Model ethical behaviour and professionalism.
- Accept accountability and operate within relevant statutory frameworks.
- Commit to ongoing professional development and contribute positively to the wider education system.
- Be attentive to potential discrepancies or concerns, and act with professional curiosity and healthy professional scepticism.
- Be aware of and follow the trust’s whistleblowing and reporting procedures, ensuring that safeguarding, integrity, and transparency are upheld at all times.
Other Requirements
- Commitment to the Trust’s values and objectives.
- Willingness to work flexibly and travel between schools, as required.
- Ability to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment.
Safeguarding requirements
This post requires the post holder to work in settings with children and young adults. Any employment offer is therefore subject to the results of an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). People who may have contact with younger children(i.e. primary school age) are also required to complete a declaration about family or other members of their household.
Applicants MUST complete the MAT’s standard application form to be considered, will be required to provide evidence of identity and qualifications and offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references. For applicants who work or have recently worked in a school, one of the references must be from the headteacher.
Dimensions (Financial/Statistical/Mandates/Constraints/No. of direct reports)
- Up to 400 staff across the trust
- Across primary academy sites - crossing between local authorities (i.e. Kirklees and Calderdale)
- Potential external support (non-trust schools)
Work/Business contacts
- Internal: Pupils, parents/carers, leaders, teachers, support staff, governors, directors, central trust leadership team.
- External: Department for Education, Local Authorities, External Agencies, Suppliers, Contractors.
Expertise in Role Required (At selection - Level 1)
Essential
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent - and QTS
- Demonstrates commitment to educational vision and values which are in-line with those of the trust
- Ability to model highly effective teaching to fellow professionals
- Successful track record of securing good outcomes
- Successful experience of challenging teaching practice and providing highly effective support to help teachers develop
- Able to demonstrate impact against school improvement priorities
- Able to build warm, positive but professional working relationships with a wide range of colleagues, who may have a broad range of emotional and professional needs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to communicate effectively with different groups - including pupils, parents and staff
- Possesses a strong understanding of how to keep children safe in education.
- Able to multi-task and manage time effectively
- Can demonstrate a high degree of cultural awareness
- Evidence of recent and relevant professional development.
Other (Physical, mobility, local conditions)
- Has the ability to travel around the trust area (and, occasionally, other UK locations).
- Is willing to work flexibly within scope of overall hours, e.g. occasional evening meetings.
- Has a full current UK Driving Licence.
- Has access to a motor vehicle and is prepared to use it for business purposes.
Please make sure that you demonstrate your ability to meet the requirements of the job by giving clear, concise examples of how you meet each criterion on your application form. We recognise and welcome our responsibility to remove any barriers in our Recruitment and Selection process for disabled people. We have tried to do this, but if you have a disability and identify any barriers in the job description or employee specification, please tell us of these in your application. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to the job wherever possible and it would help us to know your needs in order to do this. Candidates will be assessed against the job description and expertise profile from evidence provided in their application form, references and a selection process (including interview). Where criteria are to be identified through the Selection Process, this may involve written exercises, group discussions, presentations, interview etc.
This job description is not exhaustive and may be subject to review and amendment in line with the needs of the Trust.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 376 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy website
Rated Good by Ofsted in 2023, Luck Lane Primary, a SHARE Primary Academy, is committed to securing the best for every child both within their academic studies and within their personal development.
Luck Lane forms is one of eight other academies within the well-regarded and high performing SHARE Multi-Academy Trust. The academy is situated within a close-knit, diverse community, and is in good commuting distance from Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wakefield.
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