The Duchess's Community High School in Alnwick is seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher to lead teaching and learning across the school. This is a key appointment for us: the person who will take our teaching and learning philosophy forward and make it bite deeper in every classroom.

The most significant improvement at The Duchess's over the past two years has come from teaching. Not from a new initiative, but from the steady work of getting ordinary lessons right. We have built a shared framework, a protected professional development structure and a staff team with a real appetite to get better. We now need someone hungry for improvement to lead that work, with the licence to change what is not working once they understand it properly.

You will be a strong classroom practitioner who intends to stay one, with a track record of improving teaching beyond your own classroom and the ability to develop colleagues without diminishing them.

Interested?  The application pack has full details.  Application forms are available from the school website