Assistant Headteacher - Behaviour and Attendance at Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy

Assistant Headteacher – Behaviour and Attendance at Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy

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Job Reference # EDV/2025/CLCA/60730
Location Ring Road, Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10 4AX

Contract Type Permanent
Contract Term Full‑Time
Salary £61,534.00 – £67,898.00 Annually (Actual)
L8 – L12
Closing Date 9:00am, 9th Jan 2026
Start Date 20 April 2026
Positions Available 1

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher to join our Senior Leadership Team. The position will suit you if you have school experience at senior leadership level or a post of equivalent responsibility within the education sector. The successful applicant will have a proven track record of identifying and targeting underachieving students and implementing effective strategies for raising achievement and improving outcomes.

You will be able to enthuse, engage, motivate and challenge students and staff, be forward‑thinking and passionate about raising standards and continually developing teaching and learning practice across the school.

We are a Trust that believes in unlocking potential in both students and staff and as a result offer substantial and sustained professional development in support of leadership at senior/whole school level within and beyond the MAT; a competitive salary, robust school CPD training programme that enables you to flourish, and opportunities to work with colleagues across the MAT to share resources, ideas and build collaborative relationships.

We invite applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates who are committed to academic excellence and feel they have the drive and skills required for this role; as well as a commitment to making a real difference to the achievements of young people whilst delivering first‑class learning.

• Forward looking, energetic and visionary with high‑level organisational skills
• An outstanding teacher
• Have an uncompromising belief that all children deserve an outstanding education?
• Demonstrate exceptional leadership skills
• Committed to working with staff and students to help them achieve their potential
• Ability to create a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all students can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning
• Energetic, creative and able to embrace the challenges in this exciting, vibrant Trust
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrate openness and honesty
• Excellent team player who enjoys working collaboratively and leading by example, setting high standards for all
• Ability to inspire and motivate students and staff
• Highly skilled in managing personal interactions
• Resilient under pressure
• Experience of leading whole‑school change and innovation in an educational context

We are part of a high‑performing Multi‑Academy Trust with a reputation for excellence. Cockburn Multi‑Academy Trust includes primary and secondary academies. Our academies work across highly diverse city communities. Standards and expectations in our academies are high – and the trust focus on rapid improvement on the journey to delivery “Transformation to Excellence.”

We currently have 4 primary academies and 3 secondary academies situated within 2 miles of each other. All our academies benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers and share our Values and Expectations. Cockburn Multi‑Academy Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing academies in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well‑rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Our vision is to create opportunities within and beyond the curriculum to enable each student to become confident, independent, and successful citizens in modern Britain. Through dedication and hard work our students will have a love of learning and a resilience that is…