Assistant Headteacher, Pastoral and Inclusion

Job Role:

Assistant Headteacher, Pastoral and Inclusion

Employment Type:

Full time, permanent

Salary Range:
United Learning Payscales

Banstead Preparatory School is creating a new senior leadership role for an exceptional Assistant Headteacher – Pastoral and Inclusion. This is a rare opportunity to become the strategic and operational lead for pastoral care, safeguarding, wellbeing, and inclusion, placing culture, safety, and belongingat the centre of school life.

As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will bring together pastoral leadership and operational oversight into one influential role, ensuring every child is known, supported, and able to thrive.

This pivotal role demands a high level of strategic and operational expertise to lead and integrate pastoral care, behaviour, safeguarding, and inclusion. You will hold strategic responsibility for the wellbeing, safety, behaviour, and inclusion of all pupils, with particular oversight of the school’s most vulnerable cohorts. This places you at the heart of driving a positive school culture, ensuring high standards, and maintaining full compliance across pastoral and inclusion domains.

This role will include an element of teaching for KS2.

A critical element of this role is acting as the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead, taking lead responsibility for all safeguarding and child protection matters arising. You must maintain a culture of actively prioritising the safeguarding of children and ensure staff are suitably trained to carry out their safeguarding duties through Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

You must possess strong strategic thinking and proven leadership to motivate, challenge, and support staff, effectively managing change and embedding whole-school systems. If you have demonstrated impact in leading pastoral, safeguarding, behaviour, or inclusion/SEND work, possess the resilience and ability to remain calm, composed, and solution-focused, and show commitment to inclusion, equality, and safeguarding every child, we encourage your application.