Assistant Headteacher

Assistant Headteacher – Denby Grange School, Off Stocksmoor Road, Midgley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4JG Salary: £45,000 £50,000 | Full Time (40 hours/week) Purpose of the Role To lead and develop the curriculum, teaching quality, and pupil achievement across the school, ensuring that all pupils, including those with complex needs, receive a high-quality, broad, balanced, and coherent education. While overseeing the schools behaviour management, attendance strategies, personal development programmes and pupil wellbeing initiatives. The Assistant Headteacher will champion evidence-based teaching practises and professional development, ensuring a safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment that supports pupils’ social, emotional, and behavioural needs, reflecting a trauma-informed, therapeutic ethos. While modelling the Keys EPIC values and adhering strictly to the Staff Code of Conduct. At Denby Grange School We currently offer the opportunity for all pupils who are working at that level to achieve nationally recognised accreditation in English, Maths, Science, Personal and Social Development, PHSE, Design Technology, Food Technology. This runs alongside our own internal accreditation for academic progress and achievement. In order to meet the diverse needs of the children at Denby Grange School we ensure that the staff to pupil ratio is always very high. The school is currently registered for 50 pupils and at present there is a Headteacher, Associate Headteacher, School Administrator, a further 12 full time teaching members and 20 teaching assistants. Key Responsibilities Model professional behaviour, integrity, respectful communication, and high standards of behaviour consistent with the Staff Code of Conduct Work collaboratively with senior leaders, staff, parents, and external agencies to meet pupils’ needs Embed trauma-informed and therapeutic approaches in curriculum delivery and teaching practises Foster a school culture that promotes inclusion, resp