Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 3 days ago

Assistant Head of Inclusion & Enrichment

Teaching Vacancies (DfE)5,676 open roles

Where
Bicester, South East, United Kingdom
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowAssistant Head of Inclusion & EnrichmentTeaching Vacancies (DfE) · Bicester, South East, United Kingdom

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Teaching Vacancies (DfE)'s own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

7.8% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.6%1 day
  2. 3.4%3 days
  3. 7.8%7 days
  4. 14.3%14 days
  5. 33.6%30 days
This job: posted 3 days ago

The posting

The Cooper School Assistant Head of Inclusion & Enrichment Salary: Leadership 12 - 16 Contract Type: Permanent Start Date: January 2027 Location: Bicester, Oxfordshire

Reporting to: Headteacher

Responsible for: Special Educational Needs (SEN) Department including the SENCO and deputy SENCO, AP lead, a small number of allocated subject departments subject to change on a yearly basis and managing all staff leading trips and running enrichment clubs and events.

Thank you for your interest in the position of Assistant Headteacher at The Cooper School, part of the Acer Trust. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an exciting chapter in the school’s journey as it embarks on a period of rapid change, striving to embody its school values of dreaming big, working hard and being kind. The Cooper School has recently appointed a new headteacher and Chair of governors; this appointment marks the next critical appointment in the school as it strives to be “ambitious for all”. The Cooper School believes in having high expectations for all members of its community, alongside warm relationships and humanity. If this ethos fits with your own values, then please do get in contact with the headteacher, Charlotte Broom, to arrange a tour of the school.

About Acer Trust

‘Working together to provide exceptional learning experiences and

opportunities, empowering everyone to realise exciting futures’

We seek to create a positive and ambitious learning environment in every one of our schools, through which young people are prepared for success now and for lives of purpose, fulfilment and contribution in the future. We are committed to being a ‘family of schools’, working in genuine partnership, sharing expertise, challenge and support, so that each school, and every learner within it, thrives. Our values, collaboration, trust and ambition, underpin everything that we do, guiding how we work, lead and learn, and strongly shape our culture.

Job Purpose

The key purpose of this role is to improve outcomes for every student by implementing the school’s vision of being a truly inclusive setting. The AHT of Inclusion and Enrichment will work alongside the Deputy Headteacher of Teaching and Learning to ensure that classroom practice is inclusive. They will also ensure that the SENCO, deputy SENCO and SEN team, implement robust assess, plan, do, review cycles embedding a graduated response to support at the school. This role will also require close work with the vulnerable learner lead in the school. Finally, the role will be overseeing our enrichment offer, ensuring that trips, clubs and events are inspiring, inclusive and accessible to all.

Key Responsibilities1. Inclusion and Special Educational Needs (SEN)

  • Line Management of SEN: Provide direct line management, leadership, and line-management support to the SENCO, SEN Department, and associated support staff to ensure engagement with high-quality provision across all key stages.
  • SEND Identification & Outcomes: Lead the SEND team to ensure that student needs are identified early and met effectively, maintaining oversight of an accurate SEND Register, Pupil Passports, and EHCP provision.
  • Adaptive Teaching: Work alongside senior leaders for Teaching & Learning to ensure high-quality adaptive teaching strategies are deployed across all classrooms for students with SEND.
  • Exams & Interventions: Ensure that Exam Access Arrangements (EAA) are compliant with JCQ regulations and that targeted interventions produce measurable progress for priority students.
  • Line management of AP: Line manage the AP lead in the school, ensuring that alternative provision is used appropriately, strategically and inline with the school’s inclusive vision. Ensure the school’s use of AP is compliant with DFE guidance.
  • Vulnerable learners: Work alongside the Vulnerable Leaders Lead to ensure that all students, regardless of vulnerability, are included and catered for at The Cooper School.

2. Inclusive Enrichment, Trips, and Educational Visits

  • Whole-School Enrichment Strategy: Lead, design, and monitor the school’s enrichment programme, ensuring provision is fully inclusive, diverse, and caters to all students across all year groups regardless of SEND status or socioeconomic background.
  • Trips and Visits Oversight: Act as the strategic lead for school trips and educational visits, ensuring a wide-ranging, well-managed, and equitable outdoor learning and educational visits calendar.
  • Barrier Removal: Identify and remove physical, financial, and logistical barriers so that disadvantaged and priority students (e.g., Pupil Premium and SEND) fully participate in enrichment activities, clubs, residential trips, and educational visits.
  • Compliance & Safety: Take on the role of Educational Visits Coordinator (EVC) to ensure all health, safety, risk assessment, and safeguarding requirements for trips and off-site visits are rigorously met.

3. Line Management of Academic Departments

  • Departmental Leadership: Act as Curriculum Leader Link / Line Manager for a small number of designated academic departments, driving high standards of curriculum planning, assessment, and subject-specific outcomes.
  • Quality Assurance: Coach department leads to help them improve classroom practice in their subject areas.
  • Performance Management: Conduct appraisal and performance management cycles for designated middle leaders, holding teams accountable while fostering professional growth and wellbeing.

4. Senior Leadership & General Responsibilities

  • Strategic Vision: Co-lead the creation, implementation, and evaluation of the strategic vision, values, and annual School Improvement Plan for The Cooper School.
  • Priority Students & Data: Oversee progress tracking and interventions for priority student cohorts (including PP and Looked-After Children/LAC where assigned), evaluating data to close achievement gaps.
  • Safeguarding & Behaviour: Act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) where required, upholding robust child protection practices and reinforcing positive behaviour management throughout the school.
  • Community Engagement: Promote positive relationships with parents, carers, governors, external agencies, and the wider Bicester community.
From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Teaching Vacancies (DfE)'s own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Teaching Vacancies (DfE)'s form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Teaching Vacancies (DfE)'s answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.