Deputy

Rosehill Methodist Primary Academy, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, OL6 8YG

42 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
7 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 August 2025

Job details

Job role: Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £61,534-£67,898
Pay scale: Leadership 8-12

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an excellent Deputy Headteacher:

To secure and maintain excellent teaching and learning throughout all members of the school, ensuring an environment that empowers both staff and students to their highest potential.
To develop and maintain a high quality learning environment.
To support the Headteacher’s overall leadership, development and management of teaching and learning of all pupils.
To be able to teach in both key stages.
To take a leading role in the monitoring and evaluation of standards across the whole school and to be a leading professional, actively promoting effective teaching and learning practices across the school.
To take full responsibility for the school in the absence of the Headteacher.
The post will require you to work in partnership with the Headteacher, governors, staff and other schools in the Trust to ensure the continuous improvement of the school.
To work in partnership with the Headteacher to promote the Christian ethos of our Methodist school.

Please see job description and specification for more information.

What the school offers its staff

Our Trust and its school offers you:

Supportive parents and a welcoming local community
A strong and supportive leadership team with a clear sense of strategic vision
A supportive and highly committed staff with high expectations, who are willing to help each other.
Well resourced, safe and stimulating learning environments
Strong working partnerships within the Trust
Pupils with positive attitudes to learning, who are hardworking, caring and proud to attend their school.
The opportunity to make a difference.
An enthusiastic and supportive Governing Body
The support of a strong and skilled Trust Central Team
Generous holiday allowance
Pension scheme
Wellbeing Day
Tech and Cycle salary sacrifice schemes as well as other discount schemes.
Access to Employment Assistance Programme
Access to training opportunities and professional development

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

The Deputy Headteacher will assist the Headteacher to lead, motivate and inspire pupils, staff, parents, and work alongside the Methodist church and the wider community, to ensure every pupil is confident in themselves, is respectful of others, achieves well and gains the skills and knowledge to succeed in life and at work.

As a senior leader within the Epworth Education Trust, the Deputy Headteacher, together with the Headteacher and Local Advisory Board (LAB), will be responsible for establishing and implementing the vision and direction for the school. Demonstrating inspirational leadership and creativity to ensure that Epworth Education Trust’s ethos and values are deeply embedded and visible amongst pupils and staff, and that the school enables everyone to be the very best they can be.

You will be expected to interact with and lead colleagues on a professional level in order to promote a mutual understanding of the school’s vision and values.

You will work collaboratively with partners across the Trust and wider school community in the area, networking and liaising to support high standards of leadership, teaching, learning and behaviour across our family of schools.

You will be required to meet the general conditions of the post as specified in the School Teacher Conditions Document.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.