Assistant Headteacher

Job description

Position: Assistant Headteacher

Salary: Inner London L6 – L10 (Can vary depending on experience)

Hours of work: Full Time (32.5 hours)

Contract Term: Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 16th May 2025 12:00pm

Interviews: Wednesday 21st May 2025

Start date :  September 2025

Due to the promotion of our current Assistant Headteacher, we are looking for a dynamic primary practitioner to join our friendly and hardworking team. We strive to maintain our vision of our school as a thriving village.

We have a great reputation which we are keen to build on. We regularly welcome visitors from a range of schools and institutions who are keen to see what we do. So you would need to be a leader who is keen to maintain our high standards, as well as sharing our successes with others.

We are fortunate to be very well resourced including a generous range of Apple technology in every classroom, dedicated music room, music specialist, PE coaches and swimming pool

We train the leaders of the future and have a record of teachers moving on to other leadership roles including Headship. We want an ambitious Assistant Headteacher who is interested in developing the career of all of our staff, as well as their own.

We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience teaching the Opening Worlds curriculum (or a similar knowledge rich humanities curriculum) and using Walk Thrus to develop pedagogy.

We are happy to show you around. Contact our friendly office staff to arrange a visit.

This post will require classroom teaching as well as dedicated leadership time.

Please contact Rianna Lee for an application pack: rianna@shsharingey.co.uk or on 0208 340 2757.

We reserve the right to make an appointment prior to interview for the right candidate

South Harringay School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

An enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) with barred list check will be required. Also, if this post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to declare.