Deputy Head Teacher
Newcastle Bridges School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE3 3RU23 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L13 - L17
What skills and experience we're looking for
Newcastle Bridges School is delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Headteacher to join our team from September 2025. We are seeking a passionate and dedicated leader with a proven track record of success in a similar setting. The successful candidate will:
- Have a passion for teaching and learning, and improving outcomes for pupils
- Have substantial experience in leadership within special or alternative provision settings
- Demonstrate expertise in supporting pupils with SEMH needs or Autism
- Be a strategic thinker with the ability to inspire and motivate others
- Share our commitment to providing a nurturing and inclusive learning environment where every pupil can thrive
- Have flexibility and gain an understanding of the specific needs of our students
- Innovate and motivate the staff team working with our pupils, ensuring they maximise the opportunities presented to them
- Contribute to the strategic development of the school
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders
- Have the highest of expectations for all our pupils and a relentless focus on safeguarding
What the school offers its staff
The Trust is proud to say that we match the Real Living Wage and we also offer successful candidates:
- A friendly and supportive team of staff who are willing to share expertise and learn from one another
- Opportunities for career development and support with development through Trust wide Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and support from the Trust's Wellbeing Network Group
- Access to either Teacher's Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme, each with favourable employer contribution rates.
- Employee centred policies that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Funded eye tests for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
- Cycle to work scheme
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Newcastle Bridges School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 46 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Newcastle Bridges School website
- Email address
- admin@prosperlearningtrust.co.uk
Newcastle Bridges School is a multi-site alternative provision academy within Prosper Learning Trust which provides education to pupils from ages 4-19 whose education has been interrupted by mental or physical ill-health or school phobia. They may be hospitalised or are not able to fully access mainstream education due to medical or mental health reasons. They may be referred via the Local Authority, regional and national health services or home schools can directly commission places. Pupils may be singularly or dual registered depending on their circumstances.
The school is made up of a diverse range of provisions some of which are within NHS settings. These provisions are widely recognised for the expertise they provide both regionally and nationally. Education staff from Newcastle Bridges School work in partnership with staff from the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust within these settings.
Newcastle Bridges School seeks to support each pupil’s access to a full-time, broad and balanced education appropriate to their potential and their educational needs and encourage reintegration into mainstream whenever relevant.
The school is based across numerous sites, some of which are within NHS settings, as follows:
Newcastle Bridges School at Kenton
Newcastle Bridges School at Kenton offers education to pupils aged 11-16 years old who are unable to access mainstream school due to medical and mental health needs. It offers a smaller and more nurturing environment than most mainstream secondary settings. A secondary curriculum is followed and pupils sit external exams.
The Medical Pathway Team are based within this provision and provide education to pupils in the community who are unable to access the Kenton Provision for medical reasons, supporting them in a transition back to an education setting appropriate to the individual learner.
The Great North Children’s Hospital/Freeman Hospital (Paediatric Hospital Wards)
Caters for pupils whose education is interrupted by regular stays, or a long term stay in hospital. Pupils are taught by a team of teachers in the different specialist paediatric wards or in the hospital classroom.
Alnwood at St. Nicholas’ Hospital (Forensic Mental Health)
A mental health clinical setting for 12-18 year olds with mental health needs or an additional learning disability.
Ferndene Hospital at Prudhoe (Mental Health)
A purpose built inpatient centre which provides assessment and treatment for 12 to 18 year olds with complex health, behavioural and emotional needs including those with a learning disability.
Walkergate Park (Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorder Service)
A specialist second opinion service for nursery or primary school aged children who may have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other complex communication/mental health/neuro-developmental problems.
Community Education Service
Specialist teachers work in community settings, supporting pupils in a transition back to education setting appropriate to the individual learner. The team offers bespoke teaching following a medical referral which recommends a set number of hours teaching based on the pupil’s health.
Arranging a visit to Newcastle Bridges School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@prosperlearningtrust.co.uk.
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