Job title and organisation: Assistant Headteachers x 2 - Beckfoot Nessfield Primary School and Nursery
Salary: L1 - L5 (£51,773 - £57,135 actual)
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent
Location: Nessfield Drive, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD22 6NP
Closing Date: Tuesday 9 December 2025
We are seeking to appoint two Assistant Headteachers.
- Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion
- Assistant Headteacher for Quality of Education
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Beckfoot Nessfield for an Assistant Head to lead Inclusion and Behaviour with 0.5 teaching and an Assistant Head to lead Quality of Education with 0.5 teaching. Following our recent successful Ofsted inspection, we are ready to take the next step on our journey to being a remarkable school where no child is left behind. We believe that we can all strive to be even better tomorrow that we are today through our values of Kindness, Hard Work and Ambition. We are looking for a leader who will embody our values and enjoy belonging to our school and the wider Beckfoot Trust.
About Us
- Our mission is to create remarkable schools where no child is left behind.
- Established in 2013, we are a well-respected local school trust, completely committed to our inclusive and ambitious mission.
- We are different to many trusts in that we are diverse in composition; 10 schools: primary, secondary, and special and this gives us a unique feel as we learn so much from one another.
- We want our students to love learning and be well placed to do something great with their lives, our values of enjoy, learn, succeed reflect this.
- We are ambitious for all our children, and we are determined that all can succeed
- We value our teams and are committed to the professional development of all.
- We are proud of the clarity that we have as expressed in our principles of alignment and the value that we place on individual and school diversity.
- This Trust is determined that everyone has the power to lead and that we serve our local community in action as well as words.
- All our leaders are committed to being supported and challenged to be better tomorrow than they are today and are genuinely excited about the next phase in our journey to remarkable.
- We are Team Beckfoot Trust and Team School
Please see the candidate pack for more details about our Trust.
Why Choose Beckfoot Nessfield?
- We are a smaller than average primary school with a thriving nursery provision.
- We have the benefit of knowing our colleagues, children and families well and this gives us a real sense of community and a shared purpose .
- We have been on a rapid journey to remarkable and we are very proud of what we have achieved so far.
- As a small school, we benefit from the expert support and challenge from the central team and from shared resources and trust-wide opportunities for continuous professional development.
- We are committed to the all-round achievement and development of all our children and work hard to ensure they feel happy, safe and supported to be successful.
- We are committed to being a People First organisation – our recognition and value of staff reflects this.
- Our school sentence (underpinned by our values of hard work, kindness and ambition) sums up our ethos; At Beckfoot Nessfield we all strive to be even better tomorrow than we are today .
If you have any questions, please contact centralrecruitment@beckfoottrust.org or phone 01274 087 225.
To apply, go to https://www.beckfoottrust.org/work-with-us/current-vacancies/
Closing Date: Tuesday 9th December 2025
Beckfoot Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as part of our overall vetting checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and they do not need to be disclosed to employers. If they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website and further information about filtering offences can be found in DBS filtering guide
This post is also relevant to the Disqualification from Childcare Regulations, and you have a duty to inform the Trust if you are automatically disqualified from providing childcare by having committed a disqualifiable offence or disqualifying event – see Appendix 2 in the Recruitment Policy for more details.
Beckfoot Trust collects and processes personal data in accordance with UK Data Protection Laws. For more information on the personal data we collect and why, please see our Recruitment Privacy Notice: Beckfoot Trust - Privacy Notices
Click on the useful links below for further information:
Beckfoot Trust - Policies and Documents
DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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