Assistant Headteacher

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Croydon
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£67,177 / year
CATEGORY
Education
This role is not offered with visa sponsorship, though the employer is a licensed UK sponsor

SKILLS

Leadership Education Safeguarding DBS Check Curriculum Development Special Education Needs Autism School Management

FULL DESCRIPTION

The Beckmead Trust is seeking an experienced Assistant Headteacher to join the Team at [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk], a learning and nurturing community for young people with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs. The role involves close collaboration with specialist and mainstream schools, and outside specialist agencies.

Job details

Job role Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern Full time

Contract type Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary Leadership L7 - L9 (Outer London) £64,259 FTE - £67,177 FTE

Assistant Headteacher job summary

The Beckmead Trust is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs across various sites. We are seeking an experienced Assistant Headteacher to join the Team at [Employer hidden]

As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work. 

If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Croydon, we would welcome an application from you. 

For further information please see the attached job description.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff, volunteers and contractors, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance (including the ability to participate in Physical Intervention), satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents/issues which are publicly available online.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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