Assistant Headteacher: Teaching & Learning
The Duchess's Community High SchoolLeadership
Status
Live Now
Date Listed2 October 2026
ContractFULL_TIME
Listing TypeDfE_TV
About This Role
- A highly effective classroom practitioner with a strong current teaching record, who intends to keep teaching
- Successful leadership of teaching and learning or professional development beyond your own classroom
- Experience of leading change that improved practice in other people's lessons
- Experience of designing and delivering professional development for teachers
- Experience of working with and developing middle leaders
- The ability to develop colleagues without diminishing them
- The ability to gather and interpret evidence about classroom practice accurately, and to translate research into practical classroom routines
- A genuine appetite for improvement, in yourself and in others, and the patience to keep going when there are no quick wins
- The judgement to know when to hold a line and when to adapt, and the confidence to change what is not working once you understand it
- Qualified Teacher Status, a good honours degree and evidence of continuing professional development
- A deep understanding of safeguarding practice and principles
- Desirable: experience at senior leadership level in a secondary school; experience of ITT or ECT induction; experience of instructional coaching; an NPQ in leading teaching or senior leadership; familiarity with Making Every Lesson Count or a comparable framework