Deputy Head Teacher (Secondment- Transform Trust employees only)

Rosslyn Park Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 6DD

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  18 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: 71,330.00 - 78,702.00

Deputy Head Teacher (Secondment- Transform Trust employees only) job summary

Deputy Head Teacher

Required from September 2026

Full time

1-year fixed term contract – Secondment Opportunity

Leadership Scale Points 14-18

Salary £71,330 - £78,702

 

Rosslyn Park Primary and Nursery School is seeking to appoint an inspirational leader to the post of Deputy Head Teacher. We want to recruit people who are passionate about making a difference to children and want to challenge themselves to keep on improving. 

 

This presents an excellent opportunity for an aspiring Deputy Head Teacher who is deeply committed to inclusive education and wants to work as part of a collaborative and forward-thinking leadership team.

 

Rosslyn Park is a large primary school with over 500 children on roll and we pride ourselves on supporting each one of them and their families. Our children feel valued and have a sense of belonging to the school and the local diverse community. We believe strongly in developing the whole child and ensure that our knowledge-rich curriculum is supported by strong pastoral provision.

In recent years Rosslyn has received the Wellbeing School Award, the Arts Platinum Award and the History Quality Mark in recognition of the fantastic work we do. We work in partnership with a wide range of organisations such as Place2Be, Royal Shakespeare Company, Nottingham Contemporary, The University of Nottingham, and provide inclusive and accessible activities for everyone.

We enhance the curriculum by a whole-school digital approach. Our children have a 1:1 iPad in Years 2-6 and 1:3 in EYFS and Year 1, Pupils also have access to a variety of learning platforms at school and at home.

At Rosslyn, leaders place a strong emphasis on coaching, staff training and professional development.

We are looking for someone who can:

 

• Demonstrate high motivation and resilience as a senior leader.
• Model excellent practice by exemplifying high standards of teaching and promoting ambitious expectations across the school community.
• Lead the development, delivery, and evaluation of training and support for staff.
• Partner with the Headteacher to manage the school through strategic planning, policy formulation, and effective implementation of decisions.
• Lead the monitoring, evaluation, and challenge of teaching and learning, including conducting lesson observations to ensure consistency and quality.
• Ensure consistently high-quality teaching of foundational knowledge and accurate recording of impact across the school.
• Develop and review systems that robustly evaluate school performance, analyse progress data, and drive improvements in line with national standards.
• Provide oversight of the curriculum across the whole school.
• Collect and interpret assessment data to inform teaching practice and provision.
• Demonstrate high levels of behaviour management.

 

 You will:

 

• Have senior leadership experience within a primary school.
• Be a collaborative and inspirational leader, with a strong ability to motivate and empower staff and children to achieve their full potential.
• Have the ability to identify and support others to deliver highly effective teaching.
• Care passionately about children and their development whilst still driving forward pupil progress and achievement.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build on and maintain strong relationships with staff, parents and carers, children, governors and the local and wider community.

 

In return we offer:

• A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards.
• Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives
• Calm and purposeful learning environments

Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

 

The role of Deputy Headteacher will be a non-teaching position.

How to apply

To apply please send an expression of interest, max 2 sides of A4 detailing how their skills and experience match the criteria in the person specification. Please also provide a confirmation that you have approval from your Headteacher to apply. Email your expression of interest to hradmin@transformtrust.co.uk

 

Please Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

  

Any questions or queries should be directed to Matt Barnham, Head of School by email: admin@rosslyn.nottingham.sch.uk  or telephone: 0115 9153266.

Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment.

Closing date for applications: Monday 18th May at 9am

Interviews will be held on: Friday 22nd May

 

Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy TrustTransform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 9500 children in 27 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire. Joining us, you will be part of an ambitious and innovative organisation. We have a strong focus on empowering our member schools to drive their improvement journey whilst maintaining their own individual identity and community focus.

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our purpose is to be an innovative and inclusive Trust working for all children.

We are an employer that encourages flexible working and promotes wellbeing through workload considerations.

 

 

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

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education
All school roles are classed as regulated activity and as such, it is an offence to apply to for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Rosslyn Park Primary and Nursery School

• School type: Academies, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 594 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Rosslyn Park Primary and Nursery School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/rosslyn-park-primary-and-nursery-school

We are a very large primary school situated in Aspley in the North of Nottingham, with just under 700 children on roll. Despite being such a large school, we pride ourselves on supporting individual children and families. We feel it is essential that every child feels valued, is well supported and has a sense of belonging.

We are proud to be a member of the Transform Multi Academy Trust and work closely as a partnership of schools in order to ensure the best possible outcomes for all children.

Additionally we also work closely with our local family of schools, the Primary 6 Partnership, on a number of exciting projects that enhance and enrich the school curriculum.

Our school was built in 2006 and we have invested heavily in ensuring that the building reflects the investment that we put into our children. This has involved creating four houses – Castle, Sherwood, Trent and Highfields. Children collect house points for the work they produce and the winning house is rewarded every half term.

Our Vision, Ethos and Values:
A successful vision for inner city education must recognise that the needs of the pupils cannot be addressed without acknowledging the needs of the community.
Because we recognise our responsibility for each individual child, our school must:

Be an inclusive school.
We will:
Ensure each pupil’s needs are met as fully and effectively as possible to equip them for life in their society.
Value each pupil’s efforts unconditionally.
Work in a culture of achievement and high self-esteem.
Engage in professional dialogues to explore and address individual needs.
Support families in supporting their children.
Be at the heart of the community we serve.
We will:
Act as a community resource.
Seek opportunities to provide for the needs of the school community.
Respect, value and utilise the diversity within our community.
Work in partnership with other establishments and agencies to improve community provision.
Promote independent learning for life.
We will:
Begin in the Foundation Stage.
Place an emphasis on investigative, experiential and creative activities.
Provide high quality opportunities for children to develop their thinking skills.
Focus on Speaking and Listening as a key to developing independence.
Use targets as a means to involve children in their learning.
Provide a rich and varied curriculum that promotes key skills and opportunities for their application.
Have positive attitudes.
We will:
Support, not blame.
Offer opportunities, not excuses.
Have high expectations of pupils, staff, parents and governors.
Promote education beyond the curriculum and education for all.
Have high standards.
We will:
Use data to set challenging targets.
Strive to support pupils to meet and exceed their targets.
Use CPD to improve our teaching and learning.
Never settle for second best.
Challenge underachievement in all areas of school life.
Be a school that others visit to see what “good practice” means.
Provide a safe, secure and happy environment for learning.
Know ourselves and help others to know us.
We will:
Review our practices and procedures regularly, stringently and honestly.
Use data to inform ourselves of our successes and areas to develop.
Involve our stakeholders in our plans for improvement.
Be open to constructive criticism and new ideas.
Publicise our successes and be proactive with the Media.
We will work as one staff, one team, with one common goal – to succeed for the children of Aspley..
A school that succeeds plays a part in raising the esteem of a community. A community that believes in itself succeeds.
We aspire to be a school that good teachers will want to work in, that committed parents will want to send their children to and that pupils will succeed in.

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