Assistant Headteacher
| Posting date: | 11 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Location: | Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 8XL |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8cb285df-5569-4c9c-9e09-1d112d60f2ca |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Assistant Headteacher
Are you a reflective, values-led leader with a passion for improving the quality of teaching? Do you have the drive to lead improvement, and the emotional intelligence to bring people with you? If so, we want to hear from you.
At Woodthorne, our values shape everything we do: Courage, Ambition, Respect, and Excellence; together, we lead with CARE.
We are entering an exciting new chapter and require an Assistant Headteacher to work closely alongside our Headteacher. We are seeking a dynamic, grounded leader who can lead on Teaching and Learning, strengthen our coaching culture, lead English across the school, and work strategically with staff to raise standards and build capacity across the school. This is a role with real visibility, real impact, and the chance to help shape the next phase of our school’s journey.
At Woodthorne, you will find:
• Children who are curious, kind, full of potential, and proud of their school.
• A diverse and vibrant school community with strong family relationships and a real sense of belonging.
• A staff team committed to inclusion, equity and mutual support.
• A Headteacher who believes in shared leadership, coaching, and care at the heart of improvement. We’re looking for someone who will build strong, trusting relationships with pupils, staff and families; someone who sees connection and compassion as central to leadership, not an optional extra.We’re looking for someone who:
• Leads with courage and clarity – able to raise expectations while building trust.
• Has ambition for every child and every member of staff.
• Demonstrates respect in every interaction; coaching, guiding and supporting others to grow.
Pursues excellence in teaching and learning, grounded in evidence and moral purpose.
You will:
• Lead and quality-assure teaching and learning across the school.
• Develop and embed a coaching culture that supports all staff to improve and thrive.
• Take strategic responsibility for phase leadership, including performance management.
• Lead English across the school, ensuring high standards of literacy, curriculum delivery and pupil outcomes.
• Be an active and values-led member of the Senior Leadership Team, working closely with the Headteacher on whole-school priorities.
In return, we offer:
• A school where values are lived, not laminated.
• A committed, reflective staff team and engaged, enthusiastic pupils.
• A genuine leadership partnership in a school rooted in community, care, and ambition.
While Key Stage 2 and SATs experience is desirable, we are seeking a leader with phase leadership experience, a coaching mindset, and a commitment to whole-school improvement; wherever your specialist experience lies.
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged; come and see CARE in action.
What the school offers its staff
Perry Hall Multi-Academy Trust has a singular, clear and unwavering purpose: to improve outcomes for all children across the Trust regardless of their starting point in life.
This is achieved by delivering a world class education, by ensuring pupils perform above national expectations, by providing holistic support to our pupils and their families and by adding value to the pupil experience at every given opportunity.
We safeguard and protect all of our schools, providing a platform from which we can grow and succeed together.
Our ethos is to support, collaborate and empower our schools to succeed. We celebrate their individuality and cherish their respective identities. Every one of our schools is different, with unique challenges, opportunities and personalities. We recognise that as a strength and something to be celebrated.
School to school support and staff CPD is provided by the PHMAT Training and Development team and creates an environment wherein all our schools work together to prosper and share best practice. It also provides a number of opportunities for staff to enhance their careers and share their specialist knowledge to others who are able to benefit from it, resulting in better outcomes and experiences for our children.
Employee Benefits:
Trust staff are entitled to the following:
• Yearly well-being day or two half days
• Access to an employee benefits portal which includes a number of discount vouchers for shopping, entertainment and dining
• Access to a salary sacrifice scheme which allows you to lease a new vehicle
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free will-writing service
• Free telephone counselling and online access to our employee advice and assistance portal
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.
Assistant Headteacher
Are you a reflective, values-led leader with a passion for improving the quality of teaching? Do you have the drive to lead improvement, and the emotional intelligence to bring people with you? If so, we want to hear from you.
At Woodthorne, our values shape everything we do: Courage, Ambition, Respect, and Excellence; together, we lead with CARE.
We are entering an exciting new chapter and require an Assistant Headteacher to work closely alongside our Headteacher. We are seeking a dynamic, grounded leader who can lead on Teaching and Learning, strengthen our coaching culture, lead English across the school, and work strategically with staff to raise standards and build capacity across the school. This is a role with real visibility, real impact, and the chance to help shape the next phase of our school’s journey.
At Woodthorne, you will find:
• Children who are curious, kind, full of potential, and proud of their school.
• A diverse and vibrant school community with strong family relationships and a real sense of belonging.
• A staff team committed to inclusion, equity and mutual support.
• A Headteacher who believes in shared leadership, coaching, and care at the heart of improvement. We’re looking for someone who will build strong, trusting relationships with pupils, staff and families; someone who sees connection and compassion as central to leadership, not an optional extra.We’re looking for someone who:
• Leads with courage and clarity – able to raise expectations while building trust.
• Has ambition for every child and every member of staff.
• Demonstrates respect in every interaction; coaching, guiding and supporting others to grow.
Pursues excellence in teaching and learning, grounded in evidence and moral purpose.
You will:
• Lead and quality-assure teaching and learning across the school.
• Develop and embed a coaching culture that supports all staff to improve and thrive.
• Take strategic responsibility for phase leadership, including performance management.
• Lead English across the school, ensuring high standards of literacy, curriculum delivery and pupil outcomes.
• Be an active and values-led member of the Senior Leadership Team, working closely with the Headteacher on whole-school priorities.
In return, we offer:
• A school where values are lived, not laminated.
• A committed, reflective staff team and engaged, enthusiastic pupils.
• A genuine leadership partnership in a school rooted in community, care, and ambition.
While Key Stage 2 and SATs experience is desirable, we are seeking a leader with phase leadership experience, a coaching mindset, and a commitment to whole-school improvement; wherever your specialist experience lies.
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged; come and see CARE in action.
What the school offers its staff
Perry Hall Multi-Academy Trust has a singular, clear and unwavering purpose: to improve outcomes for all children across the Trust regardless of their starting point in life.
This is achieved by delivering a world class education, by ensuring pupils perform above national expectations, by providing holistic support to our pupils and their families and by adding value to the pupil experience at every given opportunity.
We safeguard and protect all of our schools, providing a platform from which we can grow and succeed together.
Our ethos is to support, collaborate and empower our schools to succeed. We celebrate their individuality and cherish their respective identities. Every one of our schools is different, with unique challenges, opportunities and personalities. We recognise that as a strength and something to be celebrated.
School to school support and staff CPD is provided by the PHMAT Training and Development team and creates an environment wherein all our schools work together to prosper and share best practice. It also provides a number of opportunities for staff to enhance their careers and share their specialist knowledge to others who are able to benefit from it, resulting in better outcomes and experiences for our children.
Employee Benefits:
Trust staff are entitled to the following:
• Yearly well-being day or two half days
• Access to an employee benefits portal which includes a number of discount vouchers for shopping, entertainment and dining
• Access to a salary sacrifice scheme which allows you to lease a new vehicle
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free will-writing service
• Free telephone counselling and online access to our employee advice and assistance portal
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.