Assistant Headteacher

This is an opportunity to join a school where staff and students love learning and working together. We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher to join our Senior Leadership Team and help us to shape the future of this successful and happy school community. Our leadership team endeavours to focus on holistic wellbeing as a priority, inspiring a culture of inclusiveness, emotional intelligence and safety. We want staff to feel valued, supported and challenged, to be creative and ambitious in their contribution to our learning community.

Beaconsfield High School wishes to appoint an inspirational and dynamic Assistant Headteacher who will work with colleagues on the academic side of the SLT (rather than the pastoral side). We are looking for a candidate who has a track record of positive impact on the people and systems around them. While we welcome applications from all, we are particularly interested in hearing from those who teach Science, Maths or English.

The exact nature of the role and responsibilities will be confirmed with the successful candidate, according to their experience and expertise. The role will sit on the academic side of the Senior Leadership Team, and may include responsibilities such as Assessment and Reporting, Learning and Teaching, Digital Strategy, Student Progress, Curriculum Development, Professional Development. You will play a key role in the leadership of our remarkable school, which prides itself as much on being happy as being successful. Please note that the job description included in the application pack includes a range of possible areas of responsibility.

We can boast wonderful students with a thirst for learning and a desire to embrace the wider opportunities available to them at school. We achieve exceptional academic results each year. This year we ranked 7th in The Times' best secondary and grammar schools in the southeast. Our staff are collaborative and support each other to be their best; it is difficult to say whether the best thing about working here is the students or the staff

The successful candidate will:Be a graduate with qualified teacher status;Have held a middle leadership or leadership role and supported whole school improvement;Combine resilience and determination with an ability to inspire, innovate and motivate colleagues and students;Have knowledge of the powerful impact of data on informing and improving progress;Have the ability to teach at a 'good' or better level consistently.Why work with us at Beaconsfield High School? We are a genuinely happy learning community;Our students are engaged, self-motivated, and enjoy their lessons;The school is located in beautiful Beaconsfield Old Town, within The Chilterns (designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty);We benefit from London Fringe Allowance and the Teachers' Pension SchemeWe have a team of specialist and committed teachers and a highly effective SEND team; We are a welcoming and supportive staff team who enjoy social occasions together like cakes at break time and end of year social events;Health Assured employee assistance programme;We are never complacent, and committed to continually improving; We are committed to the induction and professional development of all staff, and have a genuinely developmental Professional Development Process (appraisal). To apply, please complete the application form. Your covering letter/support of application statement should explain, in no more than two A4 sides, how your experience to date has prepared you for this role. Closing date: Thursday 25 April (midday).

Interviews will take place on 30 April and 1 May

Please send your application form via email to Laura Robinson at

Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.