SLT / Assistant Headteacher
Amwell View School, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 8EH33 days remaining to apply
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
18 March 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
9 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £69,332.00 Annually (Actual) L12-L21
SLT / Assistant Headteacher job summary
About the Role
This is a senior leadership opportunity at an established, repeatedly Outstanding special school for pupils aged 2-19 with Severe Learning Difficulties.
Amwell View has grown significantly and now operates across multiple sites, including innovative satellite provisions and a planned secondary expansion. You would join at a point of strategic growth, with the chance to shape provision across a developing multi-site model.
This role would suit an experienced special school senior l leader ready to widen their influence, contribute to whole-school strategy, and strengthen therapeutic practice and culture.
Why Join Amwell View?
Work in a Consistently Outstanding School
- Rated Outstanding across multiple Ofsted inspections, most recently 2024
- Strong, stable leadership
- Clear long-term vision and growth plan
Be Part of Strategic Expansion
- Established main site plus three satellite provisions
- Secondary expansion planned (2028)
- Opportunity to shape systems, culture and provision across sites
Lead in a Therapeutic, Child-Centred Culture
- Strong emphasis on communication (Makaton, symbols, SALT partnership)
- Therapeutic thinking embedded in behaviour support
- Multi-disciplinary working is routine, not occasional
Genuine Investment in Staff Development
- Clear commitment to growing internal talent
- Active support for leadership progression
- Involvement in CPD delivery, mentoring and safer recruitment
- Strong culture of professional reflection and improvement
Exceptional Learning Environment
- Therapy swimming pool
- Sensory room
- Soft play
- Dance studio
- Specialist teaching spaces across sites
- Dedicated community classroom provision
What You’ll Gain
- Senior leadership influence in a large, complex special school
- Strategic involvement in school improvement planning
- Line management and staff development experience
- Deputy DSL experience
- Exposure to satellite provision leadership
- Experience contributing to expansion and capacity growth
This role is a great opportunity to contribute meaningfully to direction, culture and standards across a growing organisation.
Ideal Background
The school is looking for:
- Strong special school experience (SLD/PMLD)
- Experience leading teams and improving teaching
- Knowledge of SEND curriculum planning
- Commitment to therapeutic approaches
If you are an experienced SEND leader looking to broaden your strategic impact within an established and expanding Outstanding school, this is a strong platform.
To discuss the role in further detail, please contact Alpha Parish (from our retained search consultants, Academicis) in the first instance: aparish@academicis.co.uk | 07436 971517
Viewings can be arranged by contacting the HR Manager, Suzie Horton: suzie.horton@amwell.herts.sch.uk
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
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Amwell View School
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 184 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Amwell View School website
Amwell View School is a school for children with Severe and Complex Learning Difficulties. All the children who attend the school have an ‘Education and Health Care Plan’ and are under the responsibility of Hertfordshire Education Authority.
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