Deputy Headteacher
St Mark's Church of England Primary Academy, London, SE25 4JD28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
5 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £56,247.00 - £61,787.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership scale L3-7 (£56,247-£61,787 FTE) - Permanent - Full time
Deputy Headteacher job summary
“Inspiring minds, achieving excellence, nurturing faith”
REAch2 Academy Trust and St Mark’s C of E Primary Academy are seeking to appoint a Deputy Headteacher from September 2025. We are seeking an individual who will support our strong Christian vison and ethos and assist the Headteacher to enhance the already strong relationships with the local community. We are looking for a leader who is ambitious and can assists us in taking the school on the next stage of its exciting journey. We will also want our new Deputy Headteacher to take on the role of SENCo and DSL. If you think that you have something to offer please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
What we are looking for:
We are seeking a Deputy Headteacher who demonstrates a commitment to our school ethos and vision: “Inspiring minds, achieving excellence, nurturing faith” and who is:
sympathetic and committed to the strong Anglican ethos of the school and its community
driven by values and can exhibit deep evidence of relational leadership
experienced in curriculum development and improvement
experienced in working in diverse urban settings with associated challenges and deprivation
An exceptional teacher who will model outstanding teaching rooted in evidenced informed practice to the school community.
Being part of REAch2
There are 62 primary schools within REAch2 across multiple geographical locations, grouped into ten Clusters.
St Marks sits within Cluster 7. Being part of the REAch2 family, you will benefit from:
Expert induction into the DSL role
Access to the NPQSEN run by Reach2 if required
expertise and support offered by the largest, primary only, multi-academy trust in the country;
- a wide range of professional development opportunities and the opportunity to work with some of the best educational professionals in the country;
access to a personal coach and mentoring
access to an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family
membership to ‘perks at work’
REAch2 will offer you the kind of rewards you can only find in a Trust that is improving the prospects and life chances for thousands of children across the country.
The school is also in a unique position as it is part of the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education (SDBE) and benefits from the support offered around RE, SIAMs and religious and spiritual provision.
To find out more about the school, REAch2 and SDBE we strongly advise that you visit our websites:
https://www.stmarkscofeprimaryacademy.net
https://education.southwark.anglican.org/
For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.
Why work with us
There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:
▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
▶️ Support package for staff wellbeing
You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Mark's Church of England Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 152 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Welcome to St Mark’s C of E Primary Academy.
We are a unique, caring, family orientated school, serving a wonderfully diverse community. Our vision is to inspire a thirst for knowledge, thinking and learning through our creative, curriculum and values-based ethos; our core purpose is to ensure that our pupils and staff achieve excellence through hard work, determination and a focus on maintaining high standards of attainment and conduct. Here at St Mark’s, we understand that each individual is uniquely created to ‘shine’ and grow into compassionate, resilient and responsible individuals, able to contribute positively to the school, the local community and make a difference in society.
At St Mark’s our mission is to provide the same standard of education and care for all our pupils as we would wish for our own children. As a Church of England Academy, Christian values are central to the life of our school, where we worship together, serve together and grow together. We build nurturing relationships based on honesty, respect and trust. In so doing, we welcome everyone from all faith backgrounds and none.
Our learning environment provides a happy, calm and purposeful atmosphere with a culture of high expectations for all. We educate and nurture the whole child through an exciting, creative and inclusive curriculum which develops children’s knowledge, skills and identity across a broad range of subjects, encouraging all to excel.
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