Assistant Headteacher
Consett Academy
Durham, County
- £68,725 - £75,859 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01 September 2026
- Apply by:
- 16 March 2026
Job overview
Assistant Headteacher
Consett Academy
To start September 2026
Consett Academy is seeking an exceptional and ambitious leader to join our Senior Leadership Team as Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for Teaching and Learning. This is a pivotal role for an outstanding practitioner who is passionate about raising standards, inspiring colleagues and ensuring that every student achieves their very best.
Working closely with the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher, you will play a central role in translating the Trust’s vision into meaningful, measurable impact within the academy. You will provide strategic leadership for teaching and learning as well as literacy across the Academy driving a culture of excellence, high expectations and continuous improvement. Your work will ensure that classrooms are engaging, inclusive and uncompromising in their focus on achievement and progress for every child.
We are looking for a leader who leads by example: a highly effective classroom practitioner with a proven track record of improving outcomes and developing others. You will have successful leadership experience within a secondary setting and be confident in monitoring, evaluating and enhancing the quality of teaching through robust performance management and purposeful professional development. A strong understanding of data will underpin your ability to set ambitious targets, identify priorities and demonstrate whole-school impact.
At Consett Academy, we believe that strong relationships, mutual respect and high aspirations are the foundations of success. You will embody these values, champion safeguarding and inclusion, and work in partnership with families, governors and the wider community to secure the very best opportunities for our students. You will be resilient, reflective and driven, with the credibility and interpersonal skills to inspire confidence and motivate others.
We offer the opportunity to work within a collaborative and forward-thinking Senior Leadership Team where your voice will be valued and your expertise will shape whole-school improvement. You will benefit from high-quality professional development, Trust-wide collaboration and a supportive culture built on mutual respect, professional trust and shared ambition, alongside the opportunity to make a genuine and lasting difference to the lives of young people in our community.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the educational experience of young people in a thriving academy and to contribute to the continued growth and success of our Trust. If you would like to arrange an informal visit to the academy prior to application, please contact Stuart Aldridge, s.aldridge@ncdat.org.uk, Deputy Head of Teaching & Learning, who will be delighted to welcome you.
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
Please note that we operate a probationary period of 6 months across all jobs in the Trust (see attached policy for further details). You will receive a comprehensive induction to support you to successfully pass your probation.
Attached documents
About Consett Academy
About Us
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools and 5 primary schools.
Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.
The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.
To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.
The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.
The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.
Our Aims are:
· To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
· To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
· To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
· To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
· To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
Welcome
It is an honour to welcome you to Consett Academy and to be able to share the success of our students with you. Whilst we strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best academically, we are convinced that it is crucial to offer students the opportunity to develop and grow into confident, resilient and exceptional young people.
In order to achieve this we aim for our students to develop moral integrity and become responsible global citizens who demonstrate tolerance and a strong sense of responsibility towards each other and to those beyond their immediate community.
The journey students embark upon at Consett Academy brings change, challenge and opportunity: the response to which goes a long way to determining the student’s quality of life upon leaving school. We strongly uphold that any success is due to the hard work and determination of students, staff and parents working collaboratively.
Consett Academy inspires excellence by its very nature, and we seek to fulfil the potential of all those involved in our unique and remarkable educational community.
Our Vision is to be ‘An inspirational learning hub that allows all students and colleagues to achieve all that they can; has an ethos that ignites a passion for learning, discovery and creativity and nurtures a moral code and self worth that stays with our young people all their lives’.
As an Academy our key priority is to drive up standards and transform the lives and aspirations of our students. We aim to be the first choice place of learning for students of all abilities living in Consett and the surrounding area. We are a self – evaluating Academy focused on continuous improvement in all areas. We put our ‘Students First’ in all that we do.
Tom Urwin,
Head Teacher
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