Assistant Headteacher: Special Education Co-ordinator, DSL and pastoral support leader

Leadership Scale 4-8 The role

Working in a high-performing school, and as a member of our senior team, you will work closely with and report to our Deputy, the Inclusion leader. As the school’s SENCO, you will ensure our mainstream SEND pupils achieve excellence in both their academic and personal development. You will also be responsible for supporting our staff as our behaviour leader, so that pupils continue to show outstanding behaviour and attitudes to learning.

In addition, you will be one of our designated senior leaders for safeguarding, helping to maintain our strong culture of safeguarding and playing a leading role in promoting our pupils’ well-being.

You will already have had successes in school management. As a member of our senior team, you will work alongside an experienced team of senior leaders, reporting to the DHT, to help shape the school’s strategic development. You will have a successful primary teaching experience and draw on this to support you in this role.

The applicant should either have the appropriate National Award certification or be committed to working towards gaining this qualification.

Aston Tower is a popular two-form entry multi-cultural school that serves a community which values and supports our work.

The school had a highly successful Ofsted inspection in October 2024 which judged the school to have improved to an ‘outstanding’ level. The school offers specialist support to pupils with Special Educational Needs through our Department for Education (DfE) approved Resource Base that caters for 16 pupils with autism. We have friendly, responsive and enthusiastic children whose attitudes to learning were described as ‘excellent’ by Ofsted, along with their outstanding behaviour.

Our staff team is skilled, caring, and committed; trustees are keen to be involved and highly supportive. The school is very well-resourced in well-kept modern premises set in spacious grounds.

Potential candidates are invited to visit the school and discuss this opportunity with the Executive Headteacher, Jonathan Moore. Please email vaca to arrange an appointment.

Application form and supportive information are found on our website

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. In addition to the candidate’s ability to perform the duties of the post, the interview will also explore issues relating to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Any relevant issue which may arise from the references will be taken up at interview.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Aston Tower Multi-academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and individually take responsibility for doing so.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement of the role.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020, which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are “protected”, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filtering Guide