Description Farlingaye High School - Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 4JX L14 – L18 (£68,586 - £75,675 per annum) Full Time Permanent Reference: 6866 Required from April 2025 This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Assistant Headteacher to join our Senior Leadership Team and help lead our fantastic school. Farlingaye High School is a high-achieving comprehensive school with over 1900 students. It has a well-established reputation in the county of Suffolk and in the community, situated in the picturesque town of Woodbridge, approximately 10 miles north of Ipswich. We are proud to be part of an exciting and developing local Trust, EAST. We would like to hear from you if you: have leadership experience and the ability to challenge, inspire and motivate colleagues and our students are an excellent communicator and able to work successfully with both internal and external stakeholders have high standards and expectations of self and others, and be able to lead by example are imaginative, innovative, resourceful and a decisive leader can build and maintain trusting relationships with the key stakeholders including staff, parents, and students share our passion for education, and can demonstrate a clear strategic vision can demonstrate how you have improved the quality of education in your current setting. In return we can offer you: Enthusiastic and ambitious students who are keen to learn with proven high achievement and attainment A strong reputation locally and in the wider community A talented staff team that welcome new challenges and are committed to supporting colleagues and students A very wide range of exciting extra-curricular activities Opportunities to work in genuine collaboration with EAST and our partner schools A supportive community, and local governing body A comprehensive induction programme Quality continuous professional development Ofsted ‘Good’, 2022 Access to the staff Wellbeing ‘Employee Assistance Programme’ and benefits of working for Farlingaye and within EAST To find out more: Potential candidates are encouraged to visit the school and will be warmly welcomed. Requests for visits should be made prior to the closing date of Tuesday, 28 January 2025. Please contact Linda Marsh, HR Manager on: hrfarlingaye.suffolk.sch.uk or 01394 385720 should you wish to visit the school or have any questions. Should you wish to discuss the job role in further detail, please contact Peter Smith, Headteacher via Lauren Teeling, Headteacher’s PA on: lteelingfarlingaye.suffolk.sch.uk How to apply: Please read the Job Booklet (pdf) Completed applications should be made via: https://www.farlingaye.suffolk.sch.uk/vacancies-staff/ Please note only applications submitted via the school’s on-line recruitment process will be considered. Closing date: 9am, 28 January 2025. Interview date: 5/6 February 2025.