Newmarket - Assistant Headteacher (Personal Development & Belonging)
Newmarket Academy
Assistant Headteacher – Belonging and Personal Development
Required: September 2025 or as soon as possibleContract Type: Full-time, permanent (33.25 hours per week)
Salary: L 12-16 (FTE: £65,286-£72,162 per annum)
Newmarket Academy is a community school on a journey to embed and sustain the significant improvements we have made. We are ambitious to ‘be the best we can be’ for the children who attend our school. Our core values- respectful, responsible, resilient- capture our approach and we are looking for a leader to join us who can model our values and challenge us all to be even better.
We are proud to have been appointed the first lead secondary school in the country for developing the CUSP curriculum (Curriculum Unity Schools Partnership) at secondary level. The CUSP curriculum is well established in the UK and internationally.CUSP is guided by evidence-led curriculum structures, such as retrieval, spaced retrieval practice and interleaving. It is underpinned by explicit vocabulary instruction and research-focused pedagogy. Combining these has led to exceptional outcomes for young people, as a result of coherent curriculum design and instructional teaching.
We need an inspirational and strategic leader who can bring creativity and innovation to the personal development we offer our students and a commitment to excellence in safeguarding whilst promoting belonging across our school and our community.
The successful candidate will be highly visible, collaborative and inspirational, committed to raising standards both in their areas of responsibility and across the school.
Newmarket Academy is part of Unity Schools Partnership, a forward-thinking academy trust of 39 schools. At Unity, we value our people, and we have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice. You will be part of our trust’s senior leaders’ network and will have development opportunities at regular intervals including our leadership events and other trust opportunities.Unity Schools Partnership celebrates both professional development and career progression. The Teaching school which is part of Unity will support the successful candidate in this post and their future career.
You will:
- Lead personal development and belonging across the school and community: student leadership, careers, extracurricular opportunities, working with our parent association and enhancing our already strong links with organisations and other schools across the town
- Strategically lead attendance and be committed to working in partnership.
- Support the Headteacher in delivery of the school vision, for all students.
- Manage and motivate members of the school team, including teaching and support staff.
- Be committed to developing high standards of teaching and learning and the professional development of staff needed to achieve this.
- Have high expectations that motivate, support and challenge teachers and students alike.
- Have excellent communication skills.
In return we will offer:
- Tailored CPD package
- iPads and Apple TV in classrooms
- A supportive and friendly working environment with well-established well-being programmes.
- An excellent programme of induction into the Academy with supportive and dynamic staff.
- Peer networks and central school improvement support
- Well-being day each Academic year.
We would encourage an informal discussion with Martin Witter, Headteacher prior to submitting your application, please contact Sian Newby, Headteachers PA on 01638 664412 or email snewby@newmarketacademy.co.uk to make an appointment.
Closing date: 9am, 12 May 2025Interviews: W/C 19 May 2025
Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via our careers website and which are completed before the closing deadline.With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible and advise you check the job information as per the listing on our careers site.
In line with safer recruitment, we are unable to accept CVs. Failure to complete an application form satisfactorily may result in not being shortlisted for the post.
Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safer recruitment, equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.
We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, we’ll facilitate this wherever we can – whether to help you meet other commitments or to help you strike a great work-life balance.We’re keen to ensure we’re designing an organisation that works for everyone, so we particularly encourage applications from different under-represented groups.
Unity Schools Partnership, welcoming diversity.