St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust

Associate Assistant Headteacher (Ref: SBMAT381)

Permanent

Leadership 1 – Leadership 5

Salary £51,773 - £57,137

REQUIRED TO START: September 2026

Location: Trust-Wide Based in Wolverhampton 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to for a highly driven leader to join our Central School Improvement Team to support school leaders in raising standards across schools in our Trust. The Trustees are seeking to appoint an  Associate Assistant Headteacher who will provide school improvement support, including the following:

• Raising standards in quality first teaching through planning and implementation support, including modelling highly effective practice

• Support in effective curriculum design and implementation

• Developing Trust Wide approaches to highly effective provision and practice

• Auditing provision and developing precise action planning to support need

• Developing subject and middle leaders

Schools in the Trust

Wolverhampton, South Staffordshire and Dudley Hub:

• St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School, Penn, Wolverhampton

• St Benedict Biscop CE Primary School, Wombourne, South Staffordshire

• Woodfield Primary School, Penn, Wolverhampton

• All Saints’ CE Primary School, Trysull, South Staffordshire

• Oak Meadow Primary School, Wolverhampton

• Fairhaven Primary School, Wordsley, Dudley

Stafford Hub:

• Gnosall CE Primary Academy, Stafford

• Haughton CE Primary Academy, Stafford

• Woodseaves CE Primary Academy, Stafford

• St. Paul’s CE Primary School, Stafford (Associate Member School from January 2024)

• Tibberton CE Primary School, Newport

• St Lawrence CE Primary School, Telford

Walsall Hub:

• Christ Church CE Primary School, Bloxwich, Walsall

• Old Church CE Primary School, Walsall

• Abbey Primary School, Walsall

• Little Bloxwich Primary School, Walsall

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;

• The ability to secure consistently strong teaching, learning and progress across schools;

• A strong commitment to inclusion, ensuring the needs of all learners are met with ambition, high expectations and compassion;

• Commitment to the safeguarding of children; and

• 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 St. Bart’s Multi-Academy Trust;

• A highly successful and growing Trust;

• Outcomes across the Trust that are above national figures;

• Friendly, hardworking staff and children;

• Exceptional behaviour for learning;

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

Katy Kent (CEO) 07876 560125/  Rachael Kilmister (Director of School Improvement) 01902 558855 rkilmister@stbartsmat.co.uk/ Frazer Smith (Deputy Director of Education) fsmith@stbartsmat.co.uk

Closing date for applications: Monday 11th May 2026, at 8:00am

To apply, please send your completed application form and recruitment monitoring form to jobs@stbartsmat.co.uk including job reference SBMAT381 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.