• Full time, Permanent, Leadership Scale L1-4

• £49,781 - £53,602

• Location: Stafford

• REQUIRED September 2025

We are currently an Associate member of St Bartholomew’s CE Multi-Academy Trust and are excited to offer an opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Assistant Headteacher with experience in SEND and/or Curriculum Development as desirable. This post will include a class teaching responsibility as well as responsibility for coaching and mentoring across the school, line management responsibility and supporting the development of subject leadership.

We are looking for a good/outstanding child-centred practitioner with:

• Proven, current success at raising standards;

• proven good/outstanding teaching and learning;

• high expectations of children and a proven commitment to raising standards;

• proven skills of organisation and leadership;

• the ability to support, lead and inspire colleagues by example;

• excellent interpersonal skills;

• a commitment to the safeguarding of children; and

• a commitment to the distinctive Christian nature of the Trust.

We can offer you:

• A strong commitment to your professional development and structured career progression opportunities;

• potential opportunities to raise standards and provide support beyond the school in St. Bart’s CE Multi-Academy Trust;

• a highly successful and growing Trust;

• outcomes across the Trust that are above national figures;

• friendly, hardworking staff and children;

• outstanding behaviour for learning; and

• an opportunity to join a happy, caring team who work together, to take the school forward, placing the child at the centre of all we do.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 6th May 2025, 9:00am

To apply, please send your completed application form and recruitment monitoring form to jobs@stbartsmat.co.uk including job reference SBMAT293 in the subject line of your email. 

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS, Prohibition List, Barred List, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable professional references.

It is an offence to apply if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. For further information, please refer to the Trust's policy on ex-offenders.

Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies for all schools within St Bartholomew's CE Multi Academy Trust are available on the respective schools' websites. Links to all of our schools are available from the homepage.

With effect from September 2022 and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, shortlisted candidates may have their publicly available social media profiles (where applicable) checked by the Trust for posts going back up to 5 years and those candidates will therefore be expected to provide their social media “handles/platforms” if shortlisted.