Headteacher
Westborough High School, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, WF13 2JE21 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2027
Closing date
13 November 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
23 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L31 - L37
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a Headteacher who is passionate about education, inspirational in their leadership and ambitious for every child.
Our new Headteacher will combine high expectations with compassion, providing the strategic leadership, energy and determination needed to take Westborough forward whilst retaining the strong relationships and inclusive culture that characterise our school.
We are looking for an experienced secondary school leader who:
- Has a successful track record of senior leadership and school improvement.
- Is ambitious for children and young people and committed to securing excellent outcomes for all.
- Has a strong understanding of curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment.
- Can articulate a compelling vision and turn it into clear, sustainable improvement.
- Leads with integrity, resilience, warmth and credibility.
- Can inspire people, develop leadership capacity and create a strong sense of collective responsibility.
- Sets high expectations while creating a culture in which staff feel valued and supported.
- Builds strong, trusting relationships and works effectively with governors, families and partners.
- Has the strategic and organisational capability to lead a complex secondary school, including effective management of people, resources and finances.
- Has an uncompromising commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and equality.
Above all, we are looking for someone who will be ambitious for Westborough and its young people, who values what is already strong and has the courage and determination to make it even better.
What the school offers its staff
Westborough High School is a caring, vibrant and ambitious learning community where relationships matter and pupils are at the heart of everything we do.
The successful candidate will inherit a school with strong foundations, committed staff and a positive culture, and will have the opportunity to build on this legacy while shaping the next chapter for the school and its young people.
We can offer you:
- A caring, inclusive and ambitious school community.
- Committed and experienced staff who are proud of their school.
- Strong foundations from which to lead the next stage of improvement.
- A supportive and committed governing body.
- A strong culture of professional learning and leadership development.
- Opportunities to work collaboratively with school and system leaders across Kirklees.
- Most importantly, the opportunity to make a lasting difference to the lives and futures of our young people.
You will be joining a school with much to be proud of, and a community committed to its future
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Westborough High School
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 900 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- headteacher.recruitment@kirklees.gov.uk
- Phone number
- 01924 469549
The school has a reputation for good educational standards, firm discipline and a caring ethos which focuses on the development of individuals. An Ofsted inspection in June 2017 designated the school as Good where pupils ‘take their learning seriously and want to achieve well”. Ofsted commended the school leadership team for providing “quality training for teachers’’.
Arranging a visit to Westborough High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email headteacher.recruitment@kirklees.gov.uk.
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