Director of Ashby Sixth Form

Ashby School, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DT

18 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  23 January 2026

• Closing date

  11 February 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership L12 - L16 or LCC Grade 14, pp 39 - 42

Director of Ashby Sixth Form job summary

Director of Ashby Sixth Form

Required from August 2026, Easter or May where possible

Full time and permanent

Leadership Spine L12 - L16 or Grade 14 pt 39 – 42

Application deadline 9am Wednesday 11th February 2026

Interviews will be held week commencing 23rd February 2026

Ashby School is on a journey to greatness. We’d love for you to be part of the story!

We are seeking to appoint a Director of Sixth Form for our vibrant and popular Ashby Sixth Form, the Key Stage 5 provision within Ashby School. Offered as an Assistant Headteacher post or as a Grade 14 support staff role, we are seeking to appoint a fantastic leader with the passion and determination to embrace working with our amazing KS5 students to grow themselves, support them to achieve within and beyond the classroom and equip them for a successful future regardless of the next steps they want to take.

Ashby is a school that has been on a significant and sustained improvement journey in the last five years. It is a school with a strong history and a great reputation in its local community. From these deep roots it has spread branches of collaboration within and beyond the LiFE multi-academy trust and is now ready to flourish in the next step of its growth from strong foundations through its revitalised leadership.

This role offers a unique experience to lead and further expand a KS5 provision that has seen applicants rise year on year since 2022. We currently have over 250 students in both Y12 and Y13 with around half our intake coming from our own 11-16 provision and half from a range of local providers including, but not limited to, our historical feeder schools of Ivanhoe in Ashby town and Ibstock. This allows us to offer an extensive curriculum which, whilst predominantly including ‘A’ levels has recently been broadened to offer more applied courses so we are the right fit for more students. Alongside this we have also added some packages of support for career destinations as we seek to ensure students have the opportunities and guidance they need, to progress to successful employment either directly, via an apprenticeship or after a successful university degree. You can read full details of our current offer on our website.

As a large Sixth Form, the successful applicant would lead a skilled and dedicated team of pastoral staff with both year groups having a Year Team Leader who are in turn supported by a Deputy Year Team Leader, an administrator and a housekeeper who supports the site but also provides further administrative support. Our broader team of staff are dedicated, well trained and experienced and we are lucky to have such an array of support for our students and staff. This role would report to the Headteacher in the first instance.

Our Sixth Form is housed on its own campus style site creating a perfect juxtaposition of school support and student independence and is well served by its location within the town of Ashby. Students can access our 11-16 site for study in practical subjects and cohort events but appreciate the independence of study that their own campus affords. The site also provides study spaces, an academic library and break-out areas so all students can find their space and place with our provision.

We are passionate about growing successful students in the broadest sense, ready to embrace the opportunities life will offer them through great learning and great personal growth. This role also offers the opportunity to work with our fantastic senior team to continue to shape our transition into an 11-18 provider of high renown.

We very much hope that this is an opportunity that excites you. We are looking for an experienced leader with an appetite for innovation; a collaborator with a natural talent to lead others; a visionary with strategic skills to realise aims and an optimist who is not afraid of hard work. We look forward to receiving your application!

Visit opportunities

We anticipate that this will be a popular post and so if you are interested in a tour of our facility or to hear a little bit more about our Sixth Form, please book onto one of our 2 tours via this link. Tours are scheduled for Thursday 5th February at 3.30pm and Friday 6th February at 8.30am. We regret we are not able to arrange individual tour events. Please note, tours start on our Sixth Form site which is our Leicester Road site not the main Nottingham Road entrance. 

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 Ashby School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1679 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ashby School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ashby-school-ashby-de-la-zouch

Ashby School is a thriving, successful and over-subscribed 11-19 Academy with over 1,600 students on roll including 500 in Ashby Sixth form. Conveniently located close to the M42 and M1, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and with the national forest on the doorstep, the school is set in its own attractive grounds in the expanding market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.

At Ashby School prides itself on putting students at its heart. We want all our students to have a happy and successful learning experience and are committed to ensuring that all students fulfil their academic potential.

Everyone in the Ashby School community is committed to achieving this, because, at Ashby, ‘Anything is Possible’.

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