Assistant Headteacher

Salary or Hourly Rate

Leadership Pay Range L2 - L7

Type of vacancy

Permanent

Work pattern

Full Time

Work Base

High Oakham Primary School, Mansfield, NG18 4SH Closing Date 06 October 2026 10:00

Assistant Headteacher required for a January 2027 start

Head Teacher: Mrs Stephanie Astle. Roll: 464 (3 - 11).
Appointment of Assistant Headteacher - Leadership Pay Range L2 - L7
2.5 days class teacher responsibilities and 2.5 days leadership

Are you an exceptional leader ready for your next challenge?

The Assistant Headteacher role at High Oakham Primary School is designed for an experienced, inspirational and ambitious leader who shares our commitment to ensuring every child thrives academically, socially and emotionally within a culture rooted in our ‘life and learning values’.

This is an excellent opportunity for:

• A competent and strategic leader with a proven track record of school improvement, passionate about raising the quality of teaching and learning and raising standards;
  
• An outstanding and dynamic teacher who inspires by example, putting teaching and learning first;
  
• A passionate and caring practitioner with high expectations of achievement and dedication to maintaining a safe, inclusive and nurturing environment which reflects the school commitment to safeguarding and inclusion;
  
• A strategic thinker, excited about and effective in managing change who will work alongside the leadership team to provide, challenge and support in managing rapid improvement for our children;
  
• A leader of learning who is committed to raising standards and to ensuring that all children achieve their full potential.
  
• A manager and team leader who possesses excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
  
• A professional, able to work in partnership with parents, carers, staff, governors and the community.

We are looking for someone who will:

• Undertake the role of a DSL alongside other colleagues with safeguarding responsibilities
  
• Have a strong focus on securing excellent pupil outcomes across Key Stage 2 and the ability to drive improvement where required.
  
• Lead strategically on all areas relating to attitudes to learning and behaviour across the school, ensuring a consistent, restorative, and inclusive approach to pupil conduct and wellbeing and monitoring its impact across school.
  
• Work collaboratively with leaders, teaching staff, and external agencies to support students with behavioural, social, and emotional needs.
  
• Provide strategic leadership for all aspects of personal development, further developing the whole-school personal development curriculum to promote resilience, confidence, respect, emotional literacy, and positive relationships.
  
• Support middle leaders, subject leaders, teachers and supports staff to ensure that the school’s values and ethos are delivered through the curriculum and that pupils are prepared for life beyond school as responsible and respectful citizens.
  
• Communicate with clarity and confidence, demonstrating a strong relational approach with pupils, staff, families and the wider community.
  
• Successfully balance strategic thinking and long-term planning with effective operational leadership and support.
  
• Have vision, passion and a proven track record of improving school performance through strong curriculum design, implementation and impact.
  
• Oversee careers provision, raising aspirations and broadening children’s understanding of future opportunities and possibilities.
  
• Coordinate extra-curricular activities, including trips and visits, ensuring a broad, inclusive and enriching range of opportunities for all pupils.
  
• Have the ability to motivate and inspire pupils, staff and parents, fostering a strong sense of teamwork while leading by example, influencing decision-making and shaping school policy.

We can offer:

• A vision for teaching and learning that has our children at the heart
  
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic and well-behaved children;
  
• A great teaching team and exceptional support staff who are ‘on board’
  
• A very supportive forward-thinking leadership team and governing body, dedicated to the wellbeing of both pupils and staff, and committed to fostering a positive, inclusive and ambitious school culture.;
  
• Parents and carers who support both the school and their children;
  
• A commitment to your continued professional development.
• The chance to make a lasting impact on pupils, shaping their personal development and helping to prepare them for their future lives and aspirations.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our HOPS team. We are a school with a strong aspiration to provide the best education possible for our children. Our forward-looking outlook affords teachers the chance to be creative, collaborative and develop the skills, passions and attributes of all children. We want all our teachers to adapt their teaching to ensure that all children’s needs are met and be able to coach others to do the same. We want our leaders to be aspirational, relentless in their drive for improvement and their yearning to develop staff and children to be the best that they can be.

A good sense of humour, an appreciation of life and respectful, positive connections are really important to us – do you have these? If you like a challenge and think you are ready for a HOPS shaped adventure, then we want to meet you!

Please get in touch to find out more. Please contact the school office on 01623 461313 to make an appointment or email headsoffice@highoakham.notts.sch.uk

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 6th October 2026 10am

Shortlisting: Tuesday 6th October 2026

Provisional date for lesson observations at the shortlisted candidates schools: Friday 9th, Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th October 2026

Provisional date for face-to-face interviews: Wednesday 14th October and Thursday 15th October

All applications must be sent to headsoffice@highoakham.notts.sch.uk

Please visit our vacancies page at www.highoakham.co.uk for an application pack and to find out more about High Oakham Primary School.

• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks.

• All posts in Primary, Secondary and Special Schools are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. All posts in schools, unless stated otherwise, are suitable for a job share arrangement.

• The County Council encourages applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, religion, belief, pregnancy and maternity status, age or sexual orientation for posts within County and Controlled Schools and in Colleges.