Download our model job description and person specification
Use our model job description to recruit your next assistant headteacher – it's suitable for both primary and secondary schools.
Adapt it to suit your school’s context, needs and priorities (for example, if you're part of a multi-academy trust, you could add details about how you expect the assistant headteacher to work with other schools in the trust).
It's based on the:
- School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD)
- Teachers' Standards
- Headteachers' Standards (read our summary of the Headteachers' Standards 2020 here).
Make sure your job advert complies with safeguarding guidance and equality law
Maintained schools: your governing board must advertise this role appropriately.
Academies: you're not required to advertise this position internally or externally, but it's good practice to do so.
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