Headteacher

Allestree Woodlands School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 2LW

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  01 September 2026

• Closing date

  22 January 2026 at 4pm

• Date listed

  9 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £117,600.00 - £132,870.00 Annually (Actual) £117,600-£132,870 (L34-L39)

Headteacher job summary

Headteacher of Allestree Woodlands School

£117,600-£132,870 (L34-L39)

For September 2026

Allestree Woodlands School is an inclusive 11-18 school with over 1,400 students overlooking the Kedleston Hall National Trust Estate, located on the northern edge of Derby City, easily commutable from Derby, Nottingham, and the surrounding areas.

A member of The Two Counties Trust since September 2025, the school is proud of its warm and friendly atmosphere and its reputation for enabling students to achieve their potential, caring passionately in the belief that every young person deserves the chance to be successful.

The school offers a broad curriculum at all key stages and has a thriving Sixth Form, valuing sports, creative, performing arts and technologies alongside the academic core.

Due to the retirement of the current Headteacher who has led Allestree Woodlands to achieve many successes during her tenure, we are now seeking an exceptional leader to continue the journey.

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious secondary school leader who possesses the ability to work in partnership with families, staff, students, governors and a range of stakeholders, inspiring everyone to create a high-performance culture and achieve the school’s mission of enabling aspiration and achievement for all, through the delivery of a knowledge-rich curriculum.

This is an exciting role in a school where success is built on strong partnership between all in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.

​This role offers an excellent opportunity to further your career, if you would like to find out more about this exciting role, please come along and join us at a recruitment evening at Allestree Woodlands School.

School visit during the day: 14:00-16:00 on Tuesday 13 January 2026

Presentation on the role and the school: 16:00 on Tuesday 13 January 2026

Presentation on the role and the school: 17:00 on Wednesday 21 January 2026

To book onto an event and receive further details please contact our HR team via HR@ttct.co.uk.

HOW TO APPLY

My New Term is our recruitment platform so please go to MyNewTerm TTCT to apply for this role by completing the application form online.

If you do not wish to apply online you can request an application form from HR@ttct.co.uk to be returned via e-mail.

In addition to completing an application please complete an Impact Statement and e-mail this to HR@ttct.co.uk by the closing date. Your Impact Statement must set out, on no more than one side of A4, your impact as a school leader relevant to this role. Your Impact Statement can be presented in whatever format you chose for example, tables, graphs, or text.

Applications and Impact Statements must arrive by 17:00 on Thursday 22 January 2026

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 28 January 2026.

WHY JOIN US?

We are a proud member of The Two Counties Trust and enjoy the benefits of being part of a Trust which places students at the heart of everything we do.

There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career.

We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well-motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees.

We offer:

Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities.

An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts.

Entry to a career average pension scheme.

Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust.

A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals.

Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career.

We take the wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates and a social media check will be required as a condition of employment.

We are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

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

At AWS we are fully committed to safeguarding our students and staff. We take notice of and adhere to all the national and local policies and guidance in regard to Safeguarding Children and Young People.
Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a responsibility to safeguard children.
All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and KCSIE. Online checks will be carried out for shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.

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 Allestree Woodlands School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1400 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Allestree Woodlands School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/allestree-woodlands-school

At Allestree Woodlands, we pride ourselves on the warm and friendly atmosphere of the school. Relationships are important and we work to ensure that every student feels safe and happy. We strive for the best achievements for our students and believe that every young person deserves the chance to feel successful at school.

Our school aims are summed up in our mission statement:

Enabling aspiration and achievement for all, through delivery of a knowledge-rich curriculum underpinned by our CORE values:

COURAGE OPTIMISM REGARD ENDEAVOUR

This means that staff at Allestree Woodlands continue to review and improve our curriculum to ensure that knowledge acquisition is clear, coherent and that year on year learning builds on what has gone before so that students feel that they are moving forward and knowing more. As I have said to our students, this acquisition of knowledge gives power and confidence to believe in ourselves and put ourselves in new, unfamiliar, challenging and exciting situations in the future. We seek to equip all of our students to use their knowledge to plan for and achieve their next steps and to be aspirational for their futures. To do this, we must both support and challenge all young people to aspire, to dream of what might lie ahead and to work hard to make those ambitious goals possible. Why settle for less than our very best? When aspiration and hard work are combined, people achieve amazing things.

We are lucky to be a thriving school with a growing intake, a wide level 3 subject offer at post-16, superb extra-curricular opportunities in sports, technology and the creative and performing arts as well as possessing tremendous facilities. If you would like to know more, take a look at our website or arrange a visit. We have open evenings planned for this half-term for prospective students and their parents and you are most welcome to come along and get a feel for what Allestree Woodlands is all about.

Mrs G. Penny - Headteacher

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