Deputy Head
Northwick Manor Primary School, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR3 7EA11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
28 April 2025
Closing date
5 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 November 2024
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L7 - L11
What skills and experience we're looking for
Northwick Manor Primary School is currently seeking to appoint a dynamic and dedicated professional to the position of Deputy Head. This full-time permanent role encompasses a breadth of responsibilities critical to the ongoing success and progression of our school. The Deputy Head, in partnership with the Headteacher, is central to shaping the school’s ethos and vision.
The Deputy Head Teacher at Northwick plays a major role in supporting the Headteacher with the day-to-day management of the school as well as taking a lead role in the strategic direction of the school. The Deputy Head Teacher will be required to deputise and assume full responsibility for the school in the absence of the Headteacher. As a member of the leadership team, the Deputy Head Teacher will play a major role in formulating the culture, vision, aims and objectives of the school, establishing the policies through which they shall be achieved, managing staff and resources to achieve the aims and objectives and monitor and evaluate progress towards their achievement.
Collaborating with a diverse team of teaching and support staff, effective communication is crucial. The Deputy Head must naturally foster a positive team spirit. An approachable and empathetic leadership style is essential in contributing to an encouraging atmosphere for both pupils and colleagues at Northwick.
We are looking for someone who:
- Is an excellent teacher who can lead, support and inspire our staff;
- Is highly motivated and organised;
- Has experience of leading initiatives that have had positive impact on pupil progress and attainment and have raised standards;
- Is passionate about the curriculum and about how children learn;
- Has experience of leading a team and has excellent interpersonal skills;
- Enjoys working with children with a variety of strengths and needs;
- Will work as part of a team to lead and help to drive school improvement.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A genuinely happy school where children love learning and teachers love teaching them
- An opportunity to work in partnership with an Headteacher who is dedicated to distributive leadership
- A role where you are fully included in making leadership decisions so that the school continues to thrive and develop its innovative approach to education
- A committed and motivated staff body, engaged parents and an active, supportive governing body.
- Access to first class professional development and support from a wide network of colleagues within Rivers CofE Academy Trust.
- A firm commitment to your continuing professional development, including opportunities to collaborate and contribute within the Trust.
Flexible working opportunities
Further details about the role
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and exemplary leader who shares our commitment to providing an extraordinary education for all children.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to mgiddings@riverscofe.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Northwick Manor Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 600 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- mgiddings@riverscofe.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01905454430
Northwick Manor is a large primary school situated in the north of Worcester. It has 95 staff and 635 pupils aged 4 to 11 years old. It has a positive reputation and strong foundations in place, being judged as Outstanding by Ofsted in July 2022.
The schools experienced and enthusiastic staff have high standards for behaviour and place great emphasis on high expectations for pupils. Northwick Manor has a strong track record in preparing pupils exceptionally well for secondary school.
The school has extensive grounds, excellent facilities and beyond the inspiring curriculum, there is an extensive range of enrichment opportunities.
The school benefits from highly supportive parents/carers and highly effective governance.
Northwick Manor Primary School is proudly part of the Rivers CofE Academy Trust, a family of schools with a shared vision to ensure our pupils’ value education and become lifelong learners as encapsulated in our vision ‘love, learn, live’.
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