Assistant Headteacher: English

Contract Type: Full time

Contract Term: Permanent

Dates

Closing Date: Monday 6th October

Start Date: Monday 5th January

About this Opportunity

Come and work in a school where students and staff matter. Our care, candour and collaborative practices ensure year on year success

Are you a dynamic and inspirational curriculum leader with a proven track record of driving exceptional outcomes in English? Do you thrive on challenge, collaboration, and innovation? Wingfield Academy is seeking a hardworking Assistant Headteacher of English to lead transformational improvement across the faculty to ensure that our young people make exceptional progress.

In this high-impact role, you will be accountable for subject outcomes, working as part of the senior leadership team to shape and deliver high-quality teaching and strategic intervention across a multitude of subject areas. You’ll provide support to middle leadership, model outstanding practice, and support Trust-wide initiatives across three schools that raise standards and inspire success. A key focus of the role will be designing a curriculum based upon a strong foundation of assessment and robust intervention that meet the needs of all learners—ensuring equity, ambition, and exceptional progress for every student.

We’re looking for someone with excellent subject expertise, strategic insight, and the ability to lead with integrity, empathy, and ambition. If you’re ready to take your leadership to the next level and give students the best possible education in a forward-thinking, values-driven Trust, we’d love to hear from you.

Wingfield Academy has become an oversubscribed and high performing secondary school, placing it as one of the highest performing schools in Rotherham and in the top 7% nationally for progress. Wingfield has also been named a national lead school as part of the DFE’s behaviour hub programme. The Academy is looking to expand and develop further, attracting the best people to work alongside our dedicated and ambitious staff who go the extra mile to make a quantifiable and powerful contribution to social mobility. We focus on the things that matter.

Wingfield Academy offers a ‘child centred, progress focused’ academy ethos, we have a cohort of students with high standards of behaviour and a willingness to learn. We have a welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter. Wingfield offers a supportive and committed leadership team with a clear vision of raising standards of teaching, learning and positive behaviour.

New Collaborative Learning Trust (NCLT) has a dynamic, positive and supportive culture for staff and students, with an enviable reputation for staff career progression and development. You will join a focused and driven team, committed to providing the highest standards of education and service.

The Trust currently comprises of three 16-19 Colleges, three Secondary Schools and three Primary Schools.

Why Work for Us?

- NCLT was crowned ‘Employer of the Year’ at the 2023 MAT Excellence Awards – these national awards celebrate the very best performers from over one thousand MATs across the country
- A strong commitment to staff wellbeing as outlined in our staff wellbeing charter
- Access to high quality professional training, both in-house and externally, to support your professional development
- Additional benefits such as a cycle to work scheme and a technology scheme
- A culture of self-reflection and improvement to meet the needs of our staff

If you believe you have the skills and abilities to take on this role, we’d love to hear from you.

Applications should be submitted to recruitment@nclt.ac.uk Those wishing to visit the school before submitting an application may do so by contacting HR directly on the email above.

Applications close 9am on Monday 6th October 2025.

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