Headteacher
Moreton School, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV10 8BY9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Autumn 2025
Closing date
21 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £99,067 - £114,759
Pay scale
- L29-L35
What skills and experience we're looking for
Your Role as Headteacher:
🔹 Lead the strategic direction of the school in collaboration with the Trust Board and CEO.
🔹 Drive high educational standards, ensuring exceptional teaching and learning experiences.
🔹 Build a culture of high expectations, professional integrity, and continuous improvement.
🔹 Develop and implement school improvement strategies to overcome challenges and achieve ambitious goals.
🔹 Oversee financial planning and resource allocation, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness.
🔹 Foster strong relationships with students, staff, parents, and the wider community.
Who We’re Looking For:
✔ A proven leader with at least three years of successful senior leadership experience (preferably at headship level).
✔ An expert in education with a deep understanding of curriculum development, assessment, and data-driven school improvement.
✔ A strategist with the ability to inspire, implement change, and drive school-wide excellence.
✔ A community builder who can engage parents, carers, and external stakeholders to enhance student success.
✔ A role model with a commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and the highest standards of professional conduct.
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Moreton School?
✅ A school with a strong and inclusive ethos, where student success is at the heart of everything we do.
✅ A supportive Trust with a collaborative leadership culture and access to high-quality PPD opportunities.
✅ Excellent facilities, enriched curriculum opportunities, and a focus on innovation in teaching and learning.
✅ Part of a strong and inclusive Trust that is underpinned by an experienced central team who handle operational needs allowing you to focus making a positive impact on the lives of Moreton students.
Commitment to safeguarding
All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise conditional job offer may be withdrawn. KCiSE 2024
This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.
It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020).
For those applicants who are shortlisted for interview please note that you may be subject to online checks.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to tpreece@aatrust.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Moreton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1051 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Moreton School website
- Email address
- tpreece@aatrust.co.uk
Moreton School is a large secondary school serving our community in Wolverhampton, with catchment areas including Bushbury, Low Hill, and Scotlands. The school has a small sixth form and a football academy with links to Paris St. Germain, making it a unique and dynamic learning environment.
We have a committed and talented staff body who work relentlessly to offer our students the best life chances and we stop at nothing to achieve that. We benefit from fantastic grounds and facilities, including excellent and regularly updated ICT and an all-weather multi-sports pitch, and the Trust is in a strong position to make sure that our staff and students want for nothing.
Moreton School is part of the Amethyst Trust, which has expanded significantly over the past few years to now encompass five schools in a growing and thriving Trust partnership. We benefit from fantastic relationships with our sister schools, meaning that there is great opportunity for networking, professional development and ultimately professional success at Moreton and beyond in our Trust.
We are a Trust that believes in a ‘talent-first’ approach, ensuring that we grow potential and see leadership opportunities as a logical step for those who make a real impact, giving fantastic career development opportunities at every turn. The Amethyst Trust is at the forefront of educational thinking, with innovative teaching with a knowledge-rich edge along with progressive ideas on feedback and staff wellbeing, including a very well received early finish on Fridays.
Our dedicated leadership team is here to support you in your professional development and ensure that you have the resources and opportunities to thrive.
Arranging a visit to Moreton School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tpreece@aatrust.co.uk.
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