Location: High Wycombe
Overview
Salary type: Leadership
Salary Details: Leadership 1-5
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time/Part-time (3-5 days)
Closing date: 06/10/2025
Interviews to be held: Wednesday 15th October 2025
Reporting to: Headteacher
Line Management: Inclusion team
Teaching Commitment: Maximum 2 days per week for a full time position.
Start date: 1st January 2026
About us
Oakridge School is a vibrant two-form entry primary with a strong reputation for inclusion and high expectations.
Our vision is simple: “Enhancing the life chances of all our children.”
We are equally committed to inclusion, ensuring SEND, EAL, disadvantaged pupils, and vulnerable groups are fully supported to succeed.
Children at Oakridge are polite, very friendly, respectful, and eager to learn. Staff wellbeing and workload are central to our culture, reflected in our Wellbeing & Workload Charter.
About the role
Are you passionate about giving every child the best start in life? Are you passionate about inclusion? Are you looking to develop as a leader? Oakridge School is seeking an inspiring Assistant Headteacher to join our leadership team. This role could be full-time with a teaching commitment or part time with less/no teaching commitment.
This role offers you the opportunity to shape practice across the school while working closely with the Core Leadership team, other dedicated colleagues, supportive families, and wonderful children. We offer excellent professional development, and a collaborative environment where leaders grow and thrive. We can also offer flexibility within the role, for the right candidate.
We are looking for a full-time Assistant Headteacher (with some teaching commitment) or a Part-time (3-5 days) Assistant Headteacher with less or no teaching commitment.
As Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion, you will:
• Oversee inclusion across the school, leading the SENCo, Pastoral Lead, Attendance Officer, and Family & Welfare Officer.
• Drive provision for SEND, EAL, disadvantaged pupils, and those with medical needs, ensuring high standards and robust support.
• Lead on attendance and act as Pupil Premium Champion, monitoring impact and reporting to governors.
• Promote collaboration, professional growth, and high expectations within teams.
You will be a visible, approachable leader who contributes to the wider strategic direction of the school, deputising when required and supporting whole-school improvement priorities.
About you
We are looking for a leader who is:
• Passionate about inclusion.
• An effective, reflective teacher who models high standards.
• Committed to supporting staff, families, and children to achieve their best.
• Positive, resilient, and ambitious - for yourself and the school.
We are not seeking the “finished article” but someone with the right attributes, values, and drive to make a difference. In your application, tell us what you’ve achieved so far and your aspirations for this role and beyond. We are proud that many of our leaders have progressed into Deputy Headships or Headships, so at Oakridge School we will give you the support and development you need to succeed.