What skills and experience we're looking for
Our staff, learners and governors are keen to appoint an enthusiastic, innovative, skilled and highly motivated Assistant Headteacher to join our team. Applications are always invited from excellent candidates, who have proven ability, creativity, vision and strong leadership practice.
When it comes to leaders, we would love to receive applications from practitioners who are committed to their own development and progression, with senior leadership experience.
Due to the high levels of demand for places we are growing rapidly and have recently opened a new site and will be opening new classes in September 2025.
Successful candidates will:
• Be an excellent and inspirational practitioner with a commitment to high standards and progress for learners who have special educational needs and/or disabilities;
• Be a creative and innovative leader who is able to inspire and motivate colleagues;
• Be a strong team member with excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills;
• Have a creative approach to learning and a willingness to participate in the wider life and broader developments of the school;
• Have a commitment to providing broad, exciting and life-changing opportunities;
• Demonstrate the capacity to raise standards that improve outcomes for pupils and staff;
• Have high expectations of children’s achievements and behaviour.
What the school offers its staff
At St Giles we have:
• Amazing, capable and enthusiastic learners;
• A commitment to team work, a strong team and a belief in providing learning opportunities that change lives;
• An innovative and exciting approach to learning and teaching;
• The highest expectations of learners’ behaviour to learning and achievements;
• Purpose-built school buildings, designed to enable staff to meet the holistic needs of children and young people who have special educational needs and/or disabilities;
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, such as counselling, physiotherapy and weekly fresh fruit deliveries.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.