2 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    January 2026 or sooner if possible

  • Closing date

    6 November 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    14 October 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Deputy headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

OHCAT Outer London, Leadership Scale, Spine Points L8–L12 (FTE £65,642 – £72,008)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an inspirational Deputy Head of School to join the Leadership Team at this exciting new Centre. You will work closely with the Head of School to establish and develop the Chaucer Centre, helping to shape its vision, culture, and provision. This role is ideal for a proactive leader who thrives in a start-up environment within a well-established Trust.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Head of School in establishing and leading the new Chaucer Centre, ensuring high standards of teaching, learning, and student welfare.

• Lead curriculum planning, implementation, and monitoring, promoting inclusive and high-quality education.

• Manage, support, and develop staff, including performance management and professional growth.

• Ensure safeguarding, inclusion, and student wellbeing are central to all aspects of the Centre.

• Build strong partnerships with students, families, and the wider community, representing the Centre within the Trust.

Key Requirements:

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) with substantial leadership experience, ideally in a specialist or SEND setting.

• Strong knowledge of curriculum development, assessment, and inclusive teaching practices.

• Proven ability to lead, inspire, and manage staff effectively.

• Commitment to safeguarding, student welfare, and promoting an inclusive learning environment.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills to engage students, families, and the wider community.


What the school offers its staff

OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:

Rewards & Benefits:

  • Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.

  • Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.

  • Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)

  • Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme

  • Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)

  • Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

Bedelsford School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Appointments made will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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Bedelsford Chaucer Centre - Deputy Head of School JD & PS.pdf - 250 KB (opens in new tab)

About Bedelsford School

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 19
School size
132 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 19
Ofsted report
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School website
Bedelsford School website
Email address
lcadenhead@bedelsfordschool.org
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Bedelsford School is an outstanding special school which aims to provide innovative education and a challenging environment for pupils aged 2 to 19. The school specialises in educating pupils with a wide range of Physical Disabilities including those with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties, Moderate Learning Difficulties and Complex Health needs. However, we are a changing population and many of our pupils now have CLDD (complex learning difficulties and disabilities).

The school converted to Academy status in April 2016 and was last inspected by Ofsted in December 2018 . Inspectors observed: Bedelsford School has high expectations of all and aims to provide consistent and sustained improvement, working collegiately with key partners.

We keenly take account of the development of neuroscientific knowledge and research to better enable us to develop the skills of our staff team, understand the unique ways our pupils learn and implement the teaching strategies which will ensure pupils make the maximum progress they can.

Bedelsford School works in close partnership with Parents/Carers to ensure that collaborative goal setting takes place and that all students reach their full potential.

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