Assistant Headteacher: English
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £67,898 to £75,049 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 October 2025 |
| Location: | Wingfield Academy, Rotherham, S61 4AU |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | New Collaborative Learning Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Are you a dynamic and inspirational curriculum leader with a proven track record of driving exceptional outcomes in English? Do you thrive on challenge, collaboration, and innovation? Wingfield Academy is seeking a hardworking Assistant Headteacher of English to lead transformational improvement across the faculty to ensure that our young people make exceptional progress.
In this high-impact role, you will be accountable for subject outcomes, working as part of the senior leadership team to shape and deliver high-quality teaching and strategic intervention across a multitude of subject areas. You’ll provide support to middle leadership, model outstanding practice, and support Trust-wide initiatives across three schools that raise standards and inspire success. A key focus of the role will be designing a curriculum based upon a strong foundation of assessment and robust intervention that meet the needs of all learners-ensuring equity, ambition, and exceptional progress for every student.
We’re looking for someone with excellent subject expertise, strategic insight, and the ability to lead with integrity, empathy, and ambition. If you’re ready to take your leadership to the next level and give students the best possible education in a forward-thinking, values-driven Trust, we’d love to hear from you.
Wingfield Academy has become an oversubscribed and high performing secondary school, placing it as one of the highest performing schools in Rotherham and in the top 7% nationally for progress. Wingfield has also been named a national lead school as part of the DFE’s behaviour hub programme. The Academy is looking to expand and develop further, attracting the best people to work alongside our dedicated and ambitious staff who go the extra mile to make a quantifiable and powerful contribution to social mobility. We focus on the things that matter.
In this high-impact role, you will be accountable for subject outcomes, working as part of the senior leadership team to shape and deliver high-quality teaching and strategic intervention across a multitude of subject areas. You’ll provide support to middle leadership, model outstanding practice, and support Trust-wide initiatives across three schools that raise standards and inspire success. A key focus of the role will be designing a curriculum based upon a strong foundation of assessment and robust intervention that meet the needs of all learners-ensuring equity, ambition, and exceptional progress for every student.
We’re looking for someone with excellent subject expertise, strategic insight, and the ability to lead with integrity, empathy, and ambition. If you’re ready to take your leadership to the next level and give students the best possible education in a forward-thinking, values-driven Trust, we’d love to hear from you.
Wingfield Academy has become an oversubscribed and high performing secondary school, placing it as one of the highest performing schools in Rotherham and in the top 7% nationally for progress. Wingfield has also been named a national lead school as part of the DFE’s behaviour hub programme. The Academy is looking to expand and develop further, attracting the best people to work alongside our dedicated and ambitious staff who go the extra mile to make a quantifiable and powerful contribution to social mobility. We focus on the things that matter.