Co-Head Teacher

Northern House Academy, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 7JN

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  2 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership Scale L17 – L23
• Additional allowances:

  Leadership Scale L17 – L23

Co-Head Teacher job summary

Are you an exceptional SEND leader ready to shape outstanding education at whole-school level?

Northern House Academy is seeking an inspiring Co-Headteacher for Curriculum and Teaching to join our highly successful leadership team.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to co-lead an Ofsted Outstanding special school alongside an experienced Headteacher who has driven transformational improvement and built a culture of excellence, care and ambition.

Northern House Academy provides:

• Outstanding quality of education
• A calm, nurturing and aspirational culture
• Exceptional safeguarding and pastoral care
• Innovative, personalised SEND curriculum design
• Highly skilled and committed staff

Pupils thrive in our school, academically, socially and emotionally, because learning is relational, ambitious and meticulously designed around their complex needs.

As Co-Headteacher for Curriculum and Teaching you will:

• Lead Outstanding teaching and learning
• Co-Lead the academy strategically
• Develop our people and culture
• Champion safeguarding and wellbeing

A secondment opportunity is available for Trust colleagues.

In addition to external applicants, we welcome applications from current Trust employees as a 2-year secondment for colleagues with the skills, experience and ambition to step into senior leadership.

This provides a powerful development pathway while making a real impact in an outstanding school.

This role is ideal for:

• Deputy/Assistant Heads ready for headship
• Senior leaders seeking a collaborative leadership model
• Experienced Head Teachers drawn to co-leadership in exceptional provision

We strongly encourage prospective applicants to visit Northern House Academy.

Seeing our school in action, meeting staff, pupils and leaders, will bring to life what makes our provision truly outstanding.

Northern House Academy is part of The Gallery Trust a highly successful specialist Multi-Academy Trust based in Oxfordshire.

This is more than a leadership role, it’s a chance to shape exceptional SEND education in an outstanding school.

If you are ready to lead curriculum excellence, develop as a senior leader, and co-head one of the Trust’s flagship schools, we would love to hear from you.

The Gallery Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment with The Gallery Trust is subject to verification of ID and qualifications, satisfactory evidence of the right to work in the UK, health clearance, and Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check. The Gallery Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from candidates from all ethnic and community backgrounds.

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 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.

About Northern House Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• School size: 85 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Northern House Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northern-house-academy

We are a special school for pupils who have been identified as having Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties. All our pupils have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) therefore SEND is at the centre of everything that we do at the school.

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