Associate Assistant Headteacher: English
Millfield Science & Performing Arts College, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, FY5 5DG22 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
4 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
12 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L6 to L11
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you ready to take the next step into strategic leadership and inspire excellence in English across a thriving, ambitious school? Millfield is a vibrant, oversubscribed 11–16 secondary school. We are proud of our exceptional students, our award-winning provision, and our unwavering commitment to creating bright futures for every child, regardless of their background.
Why Millfield?
- Outstanding reputation: Oversubscribed for 15 consecutive years, with record Attainment 8 scores and a plethora of national awards.
- Dynamic Learning Community (DLC): Staff collaborate using evidence-based research and coaching to continually refine their teaching practice.
- Culture of ambition: Our motto, Create Bright Futures, applies to both students and staff. For our students, background is never a barrier to success and we have high ambition for all.
The Role
This is a role for an experienced, passionate leader who thrives on challenge and is committed to ensuring every student is stretched and supported to achieve their very best.
As Associate Assistant Headteacher for English, you will:
- Lead our high-performing English department and shape its strategic vision.
- Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to drive whole-school priorities, including literacy and oracy.
- Contribute to the School Evaluation Framework and Development Plan, influencing outcomes beyond the English department.
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer
- Professional growth: Access to high-quality CPL, leadership coaching, and our bespoke Millfield Leadership Pathway.
- Wellbeing focus: Enhanced non-contact time and a strong commitment to workload balance.
- Recognition and reward: Hard work is valued, and internal progression is actively supported.
Join Us
If you want to lead in a school where staff morale is high, students are eager to learn, and leadership is forward-thinking, we’d love to hear from you.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
At Millfield, the welfare of the child is paramount. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All staff should understand their responsibility to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
Attitudes towards promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people will be scrutinised during the selection process for the post that you have applied for.
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 Millfield Science & Performing Arts College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 873 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Millfield Science & Performing Arts College website
- Email address
- dmountford@millfield.lancs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01253865929
We are a small, family school with around 850 students in roll. The school is hugely popular; some of our families have even moved to ensure they are in our catchment area, and we have been vastly oversubscribed for the last ten years. Behaviour at Millfield is excellent and there is a real belief in the Team Millfield ethos.
The school is proud to have won the Secondary School National Pupil Premium award in 2014 and in 2015 the Chief of Ofsted chose to visit us, the only secondary school in the North West, and said our students were ‘delightful’. In May 2017 Ofsted confirmed that we continue to be a ‘good’ school and leadership at Millfield remains ‘outstanding’. Our Progress 8 results in 2017 were the best on the Fylde Coast. With a new curriculum model planned for September 2019 we look to continue to ‘Create Bright Futures’ for all our students.
Arranging a visit to Millfield Science & Performing Arts College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email dmountford@millfield.lancs.sch.uk.
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Assistant Principal - Inclusion
Eden Boys' School, Preston
Adelaide Street, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 4BD
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Lancashire, Blackburn and Blackpool