Associate Senior Leader: English
Wingfield Academy, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 4AU14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
6 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
22 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- School Leadership Scale L4 – L8 (£55,747 - £61,534)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a dynamic and inspirational curriculum leader with a proven track record of driving exceptional outcomes in English? Do you thrive on challenge, collaboration, and innovation? Wingfield Academy is seeking a hardworking Associate Senior Leader of English to lead transformational improvement across the faculty to ensure that our young people make exceptional progress.
In this high-impact role, you will be accountable for subject outcomes, working as part of the extended senior leadership team to improve curriculum design and implementation in English. A key focus of the role will be designing a curriculum based upon a strong foundation of assessment and robust intervention that meet the needs of all learners-ensuring equity, ambition, and exceptional progress for every student.
We’re looking for someone with excellent subject expertise, strategic insight, and the ability to lead with integrity, empathy, and ambition. If you’re ready to take your leadership to the next level and give students the best possible education in a forward-thinking, values-driven Trust, we’d love to hear from you.
What the school offers its staff
Wingfield Academy offers a ‘child centred, progress focused’ academy ethos, we have a cohort of students with high standards of behaviour and a willingness to learn. We have a welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter. Wingfield offers a supportive and committed leadership team with a clear vision of raising standards of teaching, learning and positive behaviour.
New Collaborative Learning Trust (NCLT) is a Multi Academy Trust which has grown significantly over the last four years and currently comprises of three 16-19 Colleges, three secondary schools and three primary schools. NCLT has a dynamic, positive and supportive culture for staff and students, with an enviable reputation for staff career progression and development. We have a strong track record of improving the quality of education, raising aspirations and helping young people progress to higher education, apprenticeships and careers. You will join a focused and driven team, committed to providing the highest standards of education.
Why Work for Us?
- NCLT was crowned ‘Employer of the Year’ at the 2023 MAT Excellence Awards - these national awards celebrate the very best performers from over one thousand MATs across the country
- A strong commitment to staff wellbeing as outlined in our staff wellbeing charter
- Access to high quality professional training, both in-house and externally, to support your professional development
- Attractive pension scheme
- Additional benefits such as a cycle to work scheme and a technology scheme
- A culture of self-reflection and improvement to meet the needs of our staff
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
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About Wingfield Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1011 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wingfield Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@nclt.ac.uk
Wingfield Academy has become an oversubscribed and high performing secondary school, placing it as one of the highest performing schools in Rotherham and in the top 7% nationally for progress. Wingfield has also been named a national lead school as part of the DFE’s behaviour hub programme. The Academy is looking to expand and develop further, attracting the best people to work alongside our dedicated and ambitious staff who go the extra mile to make a quantifiable and powerful contribution to social mobility. We focus on the things that matter.
Wingfield Academy offers a ‘child centred, progress focused’ academy ethos, we have a cohort of students with high standards of behaviour and a willingness to learn. We have a welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter. Wingfield offers a supportive and committed leadership team with a clear vision of raising standards of teaching, learning and positive behaviour.
Arranging a visit to Wingfield Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@nclt.ac.uk.
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