Deputy Head Teacher x 2 Posts
Carfield Primary School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 9HJ30 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
24 April 2026 at 8am
Date listed
25 March 2026
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: Full Time Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L10-L14 (£64,068- £70,644)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Carfield is a strong, ambitious and proudly inclusive school at the heart of its community. Our children are confident, curious and full of potential; our staff are committed, skilled and united by a shared belief that every child deserves to flourish. Following a period of significant improvement and success, particularly in Inclusion, we are excited to be expanding our leadership team.
We are seeking two exceptional Deputy Headteachers to join us and help shape the next phase of Carfield’s journey.
Deputy Headteacher – Inclusion (SEND & Pastoral)
We are looking for a strategic, compassionate leader with a deep understanding of SEND, inclusive practice and the systems that ensure all children, particularly the most vulnerable, are known, supported and able to thrive. You will build on our recent successes in Inclusion, lead with rigour and heart, and ensure that belonging is lived, not laminated.
Deputy Headteacher – Behaviour and attendance
We are seeking a dynamic, evidence‑informed leader with a passion for high‑quality teaching and a strong understanding of behaviour as communication. You will champion a culture where learning is joyful, behaviour is positive and staff are supported to continually grow. Your leadership will help secure consistently high attendance across the school.
What the school offers its staff
What we offer
- A strong, values‑driven school with a clear commitment to inclusion
- A talented, dedicated staff team who care deeply about children
Further information about the job
Qualities
The deputy headteacher will:
- Uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct
- Build positive and respectful relationships across the school community
- Serve in the best interests of the school’s pupils
Duties and responsibilities
School culture and behaviour
Under the direction of the headteacher, the deputy headteacher will:
- Create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life
- Uphold educational standards in order to prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life
- Ensure a culture of staff professionalism
- Encourage high standards of behaviour from pupils, built on rules and routines that are understood by staff and pupils and clearly demonstrated by all adults in school
- Develop, evaluate and lead on behaviour policies
- Use consistent and fair approaches to managing behaviour, in line with the school’s behaviour policy
- Provide a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all students and staff.
Teaching, curriculum and assessment
Under the direction of the headteacher, the deputy headteacher will:
- Establish and sustain high-quality teaching across all subjects and phases, based on evidence
- Ensure teaching is underpinned by subject expertise
- Effectively use formative assessment to inform strategy and decisions
- Ensure the teaching of a broad, structured and coherent curriculum
- Establish curriculum leadership, including subject leaders with relevant expertise and access to professional networks and communities
- Use valid, reliable and proportionate approaches to assessing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum
- [Primary only] Ensure the use of evidence-informed approaches to reading so that all pupils are taught to read
- Add any other duties relevant to your school
Additional and special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities
Under the direction of the headteacher, the deputy headteacher will:
- Promote a culture and practices that enables all pupils to access the curriculum
- Have ambitious expectations for all pupils with SEN and disabilities
- Make sure the school works effectively with parents, carers and professionals to identify additional needs and provide support and adaptation where appropriate
- Make sure the school fulfils statutory duties regarding the SEND Code of Practice.
Organisational management and school improvement
Under the direction of the headteacher, the deputy headteacher will:
- Establish and sustain the school’s ethos and strategic direction together with the governing board and through consultation with the school community
- Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies so the school can operate effectively
- Ensure staff and pupils’ safety and welfare through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of duty of care
- Manage staff well with due attention to workload
- Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk
- Allocate financial resources appropriately, efficiently and effectively
- Identify problems and barriers to school effectiveness, and develop strategies for school improvement that are realistic, timely and suited to the school’s context
- Make sure these school improvement strategies are effectively implemented
- Sustaining wide, current knowledge and understanding of education locally, nationally and globally, and pursuing continuous professional development.
- Working with political and financial astuteness, within a clear set of principles centred on the school’s vision, ably translating local and national policy into the school’s context.
Professional development
Under the direction of the headteacher, the deputy headteacher will:
- Ensure staff have access to appropriate, high standard professional development opportunities
- Keep up to date with developments in education
- Seek training and continuing professional development to meet needs
- Have ambitious standards for all pupils, overcoming disadvantage and advancing equality.
- Instilling a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on pupil’ outcomes.
- Securing excellent teaching through an analytical understanding of how students learn and of the core features of successful classroom practice and curriculum design.
- Establishing an educational culture of ‘open classrooms’ to share best practice within and between schools.
- Creating an ethos within which all staff are motivated and supported to develop their own skills and subject knowledge, and to support each other.
- Identifying emerging talents, coaching current and aspiring leaders in a climate where excellence is the standard, leading to clear succession planning.
- Holding all staff to account for their professional conduct and practice.
Governance, accountability and working in partnership
Under the direction of the headteacher, the deputy headteacher will:
- Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, including accepting responsibility
- Ensure that staff understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account
- Ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties
- Work successfully with other schools and organisations
- Maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues to improve educational outcomes for all pupils
- Actively supporting the governing board to understand its role and deliver its functions effectively •
Impact within and beyond the School
Under the direction of the headteacher, the deputy headteacher will:
- Champion best practice and securing excellent achievements for all students
- Develop effective relationships with colleagues in other settings to improve academic and social outcomes for all students.
- Shape the current and future quality of the teaching profession through high quality training and sustained professional development for all staff.
- Inspire and influence others to believe in the fundamental importance of education in young people’s lives and to promote the value of education.
- Ensure arrangements are in place for safeguarding & child protection for all involved in providing services to children and families and vulnerable adults who are parents and/or who may pose a risk to children
- Promote good practice and effective communication internally between different sections, departments, disciplines and services and externally between agencies on all matters relating to the protection of children
Safeguarding
- As Designated Safeguarding Lead, ensuring the school’s safeguarding processes are of the highest standard
- Keep staff updated with current procedures and practice, ensuring all new and temporary staff receive the necessary training to enable them to carry out their safeguarding and child protection responsibilities
- Monitor the attendance and the development and wellbeing of children who are the subject of Child Protection Plans
- Be a source of advice and expertise on child protection matters to all staff at the point of need
- Maintain accurate and secure child protection records. Ensuring there are regular audits of child protection files to ensure records are up to date and that agreed action plans are being implemented.
Commitment to safeguarding
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education advice, the school will carry out online searches for shortlisted candidates and a requirement to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Shortlisted candidates are required to complete a self-declaration criminal history form prior to interview and any disclosures will be discussed with candidates at the interview stage. The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS prior to employment commencing.
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About Carfield Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 593 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Carfield Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@carfield.sheffield.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01142557534
Carfield Primary School is a large, friendly school situated in the Meersbrook area of Sheffield. We have a strong ethos, close links with our local community and enjoy a mutually supportive relationship with parents. We are a caring, happy school where children are valued as individuals and provided with suitable challenge to enable them all to achieve.
Arranging a visit to Carfield Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@carfield.sheffield.sch.uk.
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