Assistant Headteacher

Woodthorne Primary School, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 8XL

20 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  30 September 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  10 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leadership Group Pay Range L5-l9 , £57,137 - £63,070

What skills and experience we're looking for

Assistant Headteacher

Are you a reflective, values-led leader with a passion for improving the quality of teaching? Do you have the drive to lead improvement, and the emotional intelligence to bring people with you? If so, we want to hear from you.

At Woodthorne, our values shape everything we do: Courage, Ambition, Respect, and Excellence; together, we lead with CARE.

We are entering an exciting new chapter and require an Assistant Headteacher to work closely alongside our Headteacher. We are seeking a dynamic, grounded leader who can lead on Teaching and Learning, strengthen our coaching culture, lead English across the school, and work strategically with staff to raise standards and build capacity across the school. This is a role with real visibility, real impact, and the chance to help shape the next phase of our school’s journey.

At Woodthorne, you will find:

• Children who are curious, kind, full of potential, and proud of their school.

• A diverse and vibrant school community with strong family relationships and a real sense of belonging.

• A staff team committed to inclusion, equity and mutual support.

• A Headteacher who believes in shared leadership, coaching, and care at the heart of improvement. We’re looking for someone who will build strong, trusting relationships with pupils, staff and families; someone who sees connection and compassion as central to leadership, not an optional extra.We’re looking for someone who:

• Leads with courage and clarity – able to raise expectations while building trust.

• Has ambition for every child and every member of staff.

• Demonstrates respect in every interaction; coaching, guiding and supporting others to grow.

Pursues excellence in teaching and learning, grounded in evidence and moral purpose.

You will:

• Lead and quality-assure teaching and learning across the school.

• Develop and embed a coaching culture that supports all staff to improve and thrive.

• Take strategic responsibility for phase leadership, including performance management.

• Lead English across the school, ensuring high standards of literacy, curriculum delivery and pupil outcomes.

• Be an active and values-led member of the Senior Leadership Team, working closely with the Headteacher on whole-school priorities.

In return, we offer:

• A school where values are lived, not laminated.

• A committed, reflective staff team and engaged, enthusiastic pupils.

• A genuine leadership partnership in a school rooted in community, care, and ambition.

While Key Stage 2 and SATs experience is desirable, we are seeking a leader with phase leadership experience, a coaching mindset, and a commitment to whole-school improvement; wherever your specialist experience lies.

Visits to the school are warmly encouraged; come and see CARE in action.

What the school offers its staff

Perry Hall Multi-Academy Trust has a singular, clear and unwavering purpose: to improve outcomes for all children across the Trust regardless of their starting point in life.

This is achieved by delivering a world class education, by ensuring pupils perform above national expectations, by providing holistic support to our pupils and their families and by adding value to the pupil experience at every given opportunity.

We safeguard and protect all of our schools, providing a platform from which we can grow and succeed together.

Our ethos is to support, collaborate and empower our schools to succeed. We celebrate their individuality and cherish their respective identities. Every one of our schools is different, with unique challenges, opportunities and personalities. We recognise that as a strength and something to be celebrated.

School to school support and staff CPD is provided by the PHMAT Training and Development team and creates an environment wherein all our schools work together to prosper and share best practice. It also provides a number of opportunities for staff to enhance their careers and share their specialist knowledge to others who are able to benefit from it, resulting in better outcomes and experiences for our children.

Employee Benefits:

Trust staff are entitled to the following:

• Yearly well-being day or two half days

• Access to an employee benefits portal which includes a number of discount vouchers for shopping, entertainment and dining

• Access to a salary sacrifice scheme which allows you to lease a new vehicle

• Cycle to work scheme

• Free will-writing service

• Free telephone counselling and online access to our employee advice and assistance portal

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 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.

Application Pack Assistant Headteacher Woodthorne (1).pdf - 800 KB (opens in new tab)

About Woodthorne Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 426 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodthorne Primary School website
• Email address: C.Watts@wtps.perryhallmat.co.uk
• Phone number: 01902 921160
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodthorne-primary-school-wolverhampton

Arranging a visit to Woodthorne Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email C.Watts@wtps.perryhallmat.co.uk.

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