13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    6 January 2025

  • Closing date

    25 October 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    7 October 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

L7 - L11

What skills and experience we're looking for

Associate Assistant Headteacher - Science

Full-time Permanent

To start in January 2025

Salary L7 - L11

We are seeking to appoint an inspirational and enthusiastic leader to join our school at a crucial stage of its development. This post will attract those candidates seeking to make a real, positive change to student outcomes and shape the structure and direction of Science at the school.

This is a critical appointment, and it represents an excellent career development opportunity for a candidate with existing leadership experience seeking whole school responsibilities and to further their career into senior leadership. The core purpose of the role is to provide effective leadership and to be accountable for the learning and achievement of all students following programmes of study in Science at key stage 3,4 & 5. The successful candidate will also agree specific whole school responsibilities with the Headteacher in order to aid their professional development as a senior leader.

We aim to recruit staff who:

  • Are excited by their role and by the prospect of challenging young people to achieve their very best
  • Love the processes of teaching and learning and are keen to continually develop their own skills;
  • Recognise that teaching can be a demanding job and react positively to those demands;
  • Will subscribe to the ethos of the College and be committed to get the very best from our students;
  • Take every opportunity, in and out of the classroom, to talk to students, model expected behaviours and build positive relationships with all
  • Are quick to praise and slow to criticise
  • Are not afraid to admit to seeing themselves as potential whole school leaders of the future.

As the core purpose of this role involves substantive subject leadership, we have a particular interest in recruiting an existing leader or outstanding teacher who can demonstrate significant leadership potential, who:

  • Can inspire and motivate a talented team;
  • Is able to juggle the demands of leadership with a teaching timetable;
  • Can build on the rapid improvements made in the faculty over the past three years.



What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

  • A strong commitment to your training and development.
  • Fantastic students who are a pleasure to work with.
  • Excellent facilities & resources.
  • The opportunity to make a real difference to students’ lives.
  • Automatic enrolment to the Teacher Pension Scheme.
  • Free on-site parking.
  • Comprehensive Wellbeing Package.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lutterworth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check, pre-employment checks including evidence of your right to work in the UK, online checks and a satisfactory Health Check. References will be requested for all shortlisted applicants before interview.

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About Lutterworth College

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
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School size
1563 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

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