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Director of Highlands Sixth Form (senior assistant headteacher)

Highlands School, London, N21 1QQ

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• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  24 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  14 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: 8:30 to 3:30pm Monday to Friday and 8:30 - 4:30pm on Wednesdays.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership 19 - 23

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent.

• Significant and successful experience of teaching in a secondary school setting, with a proven track record of raising student achievement at Key Stage 5.

• Experience of raising standards in a middle or senior leadership role.

• A comprehensive understanding of the academic and pastoral needs of sixth form students and the challenges and opportunities of post-16 education.

• Experience of successfully involvement in the UCAS application process and providing effective careers guidance to sixth form students.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret and utilize data effectively to inform strategic planning, target setting, and intervention strategies.

• Experience of developing and leading high performing teams.

• A clear vision of what excellence looks like in a sixth form.

• A strong understanding of current trends and developments in post-16 education policy and practice.
  

What the school offers its staff

Professionally guided practices

• Collaborative knowledge rich curriculum

• Weekly CPD enabled by early school closure

• Feedback not marking

• Equalities informed practices

• Centralised behaviour policy

• No written reports

Excellent career development

• Tailored opportunities for professional growth

• Regular feedback through Instructional coaching

• Funding for Masters programmes

• Leadership opportunities at every stage

• Time with your department is prioritised

Staff wellbeing

• Two week October half term

• An innovative house system in which all staff participate

• Meetings only on Wednesdays

• Green surroundings and clean air within easy access of central London

• Eco Schools Green Flag - merit

• A range of international and national trips

• SLT open door policy

• Community building opportunities through a calendar of staff events

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

Safeguarding students is central to everything we do at Highlands School. We are committed to ensuring that students are safe, cared for and taught how to keep themselves and others safe. We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and follow our procedures to ensure that students receive effective support and protection.

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About Highlands School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1650 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Highlands School website
• Email address: hsjobapp@highlearn.uk
• Phone number: 020 8370 1100
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highlands-school-london

Highlands is an ‘Outstanding’ school (OFSTED 2011, 2014 and 2024) at which students consistently outperform national expectations in terms of both attainment and progress. Outstanding outcomes provide our students with the opportunity to continue their studies at prestigious institutions; students at Highlands regularly receive offers from medical schools, Oxbridge and Russell Group universities. Colleagues joining Highlands are joining one of the most popular and successful schools in north London.
The work we do at Highlands is underpinned by our values: determination, aspiration, respect and equality (DARE).

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