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Headteacher

Ashfield School

Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

  • £113,077 - £137,583 per year
  • Quick apply
  • Expired
Salary:
L34 - L42
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2025, with potential for an earlier start.
Apply by:
12 February 2025

Job overview

Ashfield School is rightly proud of its reputation for high standards of teaching, behaviour and achievement. We have high expectations and encourage all students to meet them in order to fulfil their potential.

Following the retirement of our current Headteacher, this popular, large 11-18 school requires a Headteacher with the vision, drive and commitment to lead it through the next exciting phase of its development which includes a new build and taking the school on to become outstanding in all areas.

Inclusivity, safeguarding, and an unwavering commitment to our students’ wellbeing define our school culture. We strive to create an environment where both academic and personal growth can flourish. Ashfield  school is characterised by a culture of challenge and support, fostering positive relationships among students, families, and our dedicated staff.

Years of strategic investment have resulted in state-of-the-art facilities. From a full-sized athletics track and swimming pool, to a professional photography studio and music rehearsal rooms, Ashfield School offers a diverse, stimulating, and vibrant experience which inspires our students.

Strong leadership skills are essential to enable us to continue our journey and Ashfield School deserves an experienced and ambitious Headteacher or aspiring Executive Leader. These skills coupled with the ability to work in partnership with families, staff, students, governors and a range of stakeholders, inspiring everyone to create a high-performance culture and an ethos where achievement, excellence and inclusion are embedded into everything we do, are key to ensuring that Ashfield students achieve their full potential.

This is an exciting role which also provides an opportunity, as a member of the Trust’s extended executive team, to contribute more widely across the Trust as needed.

 ​If you would like to find out more about this exciting role, please come along and join us at a recruitment evening at Ashfield School.

 Events  are being held at 17:00 on Thursday 30 January 2025 and Wednesday 5 February 2025.

 To book onto an event and receive further details please contact our HR team via HR@ttct.co.uk.

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your application by 17.00 on 12 February 2025. If you do not wish to apply online you can request an application form from HR@ttct.co.uk.

In addition to completing an application please complete an accompanying Impact Statement and e-mail this to HR@ttct.co.uk  by the closing date. Your Impact Statement must set out, on no more than one side of A4,  your impact as a senior leader. Your Impact Statement can be presented in whatever format you chose for example, tables, graphs, or text.

Applications and accompanying Impact Statements must arrive by 17.00 on 12 February 2025.

Interviews will be held on 27 February 2025.


WHY JOIN US?

We are a proud member of The Two Counties Trust and enjoy the benefits of being part of a Trust which places students at the heart of everything we do.

There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career.

We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well-motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees.

We offer:

Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities.

An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts.

Entry to a career average pension scheme.

Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust.

A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals.

Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career.

We take the wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates and a social media check will be required as a condition of employment.

We are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

  

 

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About Ashfield School

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  • Ashfield School
  • Sutton Road, Kirkby-in-ashfield, Nottingham
  • Nottinghamshire
  • NG17 8HP
  • United Kingdom
+44 1623 455000

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Welcome to Ashfield School, a member of The Two Counties Trust.

There are many reasons to choose our school, and the Trust, as a great place to start or develop your career. We recognise the importance of happy, rewarded, and motivated employees and as such we have developed our HR and Professional Learning strategies to invest in people.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within the school, externally, and across the Trust, offering extensive professional learning for all employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related progression, recognising the limitations and changed the focus from proving to improving through professional growth which is focused on individual ambitions, enabling everyone to get a little bit better all the time.

We are committed to your welfare as an employee and alongside our own wellbeing and workload management arrangements we have signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. If you need additional support on a range of matters, an Employee Assistance Programme is available to you from day one of employment.

We offer highly competitive pay, including some points above national rate, an array of employee benefits including extensive high street retail discounts, gym membership and discounted healthcare.

There are an array of centralised systems which are designed to save you time and avoid duplication of effort, these are based on the work of experts across the Trust, meaning that your time can be focused where you need it to be.

We hope you will join us in a great environment where you can work with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals.

Welcome from the Headteacher

Ashfield School is the largest single site 11-18 secondary school in the country (NOR 2,700). Our extensive and inclusive seven-year curriculum is housed in state of the art facilities including a separate, purpose built Post 16 Centre, a tiered theatre, a swimming pool, drama and dance studios, catering kitchen, construction centre, hair and beauty studios and a 400 metre fully equipped athletics track.

Ashfield School has earned a succession of very strong ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding features’ Ofsted judgements and we continue to go from strength the strength in terms of our reputation and student numbers. The reputation of the school, our extensive facilities, curriculum, and the healthy and supportive working environment makes Ashfield School a great place to work.

To continually improve we seek to recruit the most enthusiastic and talented employees at every opportunity. We look for people who are committed to improving the life choices of Ashfield students and who can fit the friendly, hard-working and ambitious profile of colleagues already here. Of course, every new employee brings something different to add to the rich pool of talent at the school.

All employees at Ashfield are fully supported to develop professionally. Our in-house professional development programme is a particular strength. Every employee is encouraged to tap into the array of professional learning opportunities on offer. We are as ambitious for our employees as we are for our students.

Whilst our website gives you a flavour of the outstanding facilities on offer, a visit to the school is recommended for prospective applicants to appreciate its unique qualities and vibrant atmosphere.

As Ofsted reported in November 2021, students and staff share ‘very high expectations’ of each other, behaviour is ‘very good’ and the vision for the school is ‘shared by everyone’, including our very supportive parent body; ‘To support and challenge all learners to fulfil their potential.’

I look forward to presenting our wonderful school to prospective applicants who would like to be part of building a successful future for our friendly and fantastic students.

John Maher

The Two Counties Trust

With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have nine secondary schools, over 11,000 students and 1,500 employees.

We exist to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share. Collectively we serve our communities by educating and preparing our students for the next steps in their lives.

Leaders across the Trust are fully committed to striving for excellence in all that we do. We understand that families trust us each day with their most prized possession i.e their child, and we all are here to serve the students in our care.

Our values are:

Ambition:   We maximise our potential through striving for excellence.

Teamwork: We give 100% effort, displaying kindness and humility for the benefit of all.

Honesty:    We are respectfully open about our successes and areas for growth.

To find out more about us, please go to The Two Counties Trust website.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Trust in the near future.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a children's barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates to identify incidents or issues that may have happened, and which are publicly available online, which we may need to explore with shortlisted candidates.

The school's child protection policy can be located at: www.ashfield.ttct.co.uk/our-school/policies.

The Trust's policy on the employment of ex-offenders can be located at:  www.ttct.co.uk/our-trust/policies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and as such we are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

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