Deputy Heaadteacher
Bewick Bridge Community Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 9NDThis job expired on 16 May 2025
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £50,025.00 - £58,118.00 Annually (FTE)
Deputy Heaadteacher job summary
Full time permanent post from September 2025
The Governors of our happy and successful school are seeking to appoint a Deputy Headteacher, after the promotion of the previous postholder to the position of Headteacher.
The applicant should have a high level of leadership and management skills to be able to support our Headteacher in moving our school into the next stage of its development.
We are looking for someone who:
has the skills and empathy needed to help lead and support a friendly, dedicated and hard working staff;
is an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic teacher who values the importance of a broad and creative curriculum;
is passionate about education and inspiring children to develop their Growth Mindsets;
is a talented primary practitioner with high expectations and has an outstanding track record for raising attainment and progress;
is keen to develop their management and leadership skills across the primary age range;
is committed to working in a whole school team, leading by example, inspiring our staff.
We can offer you:
a welcoming community with hard working staff and enthusiastic children who love to learn;
a school that is rapidly improving, ambitious and well supported by the Governors, Community and Parents/Carers;
a commitment to your professional development with potential opportunities to work collaboratively with other schools;
a spacious site with amazing facilities, right next to the heart of Cambridge city;
dedicated leadership and management time – The post has an 80% teaching commitment, 20% leadership and management time.
Before and after school visits or virtual meetings are highly encouraged. Please contact Tom Sapsford, Headteacher, on tsapsford@bewickbridge.co.uk or 01223 508772 to arrange an appointment.
Closing date for applications : Friday 16th May 2025 at noon
Interviews: Tuesday 20th May 2025
Bewick Bridge Community Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
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.
About Bewick Bridge Community Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 227 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bewick Bridge Community Primary School website
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough