Assistant Headteacher - Summerwood Campus

Summerwood Campus – Assistant Headteacher with Safeguarding responsibility.

Permanent full-time position

Start Date: September 2025

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Due to school expansion, the Executive Headteacher and Governors seek to appoint an enthusiastic, inspirational, and energetic Assistant Headteacher at Summerwood Campus with Safeguarding responsibility.

Summerwood Campus in Charminster is an autism-specific environment designed to meet the needs of our autistic young people who are working at or close to age-related expectations. Learners at Summerwood are 16-19. Our focus at Summerwood is on providing the right environment and support to enable students to achieve core academic qualifications as well as supporting our students to learn key social and independence skills to support them as they move into adulthood.

The successful candidate will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team and will have no regular teaching commitment but will be expected to support teachers across the phase, demonstrating exemplar practice & supporting their teaching team to deliver the highest quality learning opportunities. There will be an expectation to work in collaboration with our other P16 provisions across Linwood School.

The successful applicant will:

1. Be a part of the Senior Leadership Team.
2. Play a decisive role in the strategic, operational, and policy development of the Post 16 curriculum through innovative and enterprising leadership.
3. Provide leadership and guidance to classroom-based staff on safeguarding policy and practice.
4. Have experience of working with pupils with an Autism diagnosis or learning difficulties.
5. Effectively manage individual and team performance across Summerwood, acting as a role model within the school community.
6. Adapt their leadership style to a range of scenarios across the school as a whole.
7. Effectively promote inclusivity and safeguarding, being DDSL for Summerwood Campus.
8. Be motivated to improve attendance at Summerwood Campus through innovation and high expectations.
9. Periodically provide teaching cover for absent teachers.
10. Be passionate about teaching and learning.
11. Be able to inspire, engage, and motivate pupils and staff.
12. Have a creative approach to teaching and learning.

Linwood School provides:

1. A supportive environment committed to achieving excellence.
2. Opportunities for continued professional development.
3. The opportunity to play a full part in a dynamic, thriving, and diverse school community.

In addition to the benefits provided by BCP Council, Linwood School also provides:

1. An Employee Assistance Programme to support staff wellbeing including free counselling sessions.
2. Paid after-school training sessions to support staff development.
3. Career development.
4. Long Service Awards.

Linwood School is an equal opportunities employer which values a diverse workforce. We seek and encourage applications from individuals from a diverse background who will come and work with us and become part of our Linwood family, supportive of our school values whilst providing an excellent and inclusive service to our students, ensuring they continue to feel part of the school community in everyday activities.

Linwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced DBS check as well as an overseas criminal records check, if worked or lived outside the UK within the past 10 years. Offers of employment are also subject to satisfactory references, health, and right to work checks.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013, and 2020. If the role is exempt, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed, and if they are disclosed, we cannot take them into account.

All Linwood School staff are expected to adhere to our policies and procedures in respect of safeguarding and child protection, including Keeping Children Safe in Education and guidance for adults working with children and young people in an education setting.

For any enquiries regarding the role please contact the HR Department on 01202 636811 or hr@linwood.bournemouth.sch.uk.