Deputy Headteacher

Badsley Primary School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2QS

18 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  19 March 2025

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
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L13-L17

What skills and experience we're looking for

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a non-class-based Deputy Headteacher to join our senior leadership team for September 2025.

Are you an experienced and inspiring senior leader within your school?

Do you have the passion and commitment to play a leading role in a child’s education?

Would you relish the challenge and opportunity to support our school further on its journey?

If these questions appeal to you, then please read on.

The Governors of Badsley Primary School are looking to appoint an inspirational and innovative Deputy Headteacher to build upon our existing strong foundations and drive our school to the next level of performance, alongside an experienced and committed staff.

The successful candidate will be an experienced, inspirational senior leader, ideally in a Deputy or Assistant Headteacher role in your current school. We are looking for a leader with a clear vision for the further development of our inclusive and welcoming school.

Our team at Badsley Primary is highly supportive and collaborative: children’s education and the school community lie at the heart of everything we do. We are a happy and caring school with children who are keen to learn and who aspire to achieve their best in everything they do.

Badsley Primary School is a large, three form entry (FS2 to Y6), highly regarded Local Authority maintained school, which serves the community. We understand that a child’s educational journey is as much about making lasting memories and discovering their talents as it is about academic success. We believe this enables children to develop the necessary skills, knowledge and resilience to equip them for life.

As Deputy Headteacher you will play a crucial role in the leadership and management of our school. You will collaborate with the Headteacher and senior leadership team to secure the highest standards of education.

If this sounds like your next step, you will need to be someone who:

• Is experienced in whole school leadership, with a track record and understanding of successful and sustainable school improvement
• Sets high standards and leads by example
• Places children at the heart of all their work

• Inspires colleagues to be the very best that they can be
• Works with resilience, determination, integrity, and courage
• Brings a commitment to setting high expectations and raising standards of achievement
• Recognises the existing strengths of the school and areas for development
• Has a strong commitment to inclusion, pastoral support, equality and diversity for all pupils and their families
• Looks outside school for opportunities to improve and collaborate
• Is passionate about education and has children at the heart of all their work
• Develops and nurtures positive relationships with pupils, staff, governors, and the wider school community

• Has an excellent work ethic and can work under pressure and meet deadlines, whilst also recognising the importance of staff wellbeing

• Provides up to date knowledge and expertise in the primary classroom

• Promotes, demonstrates and celebrates our BADSLEY values in all that they do.

We are looking for a Deputy Headteacher to:

• Support the Headteacher’s overall leadership, development and management of teaching and learning of all pupils
• Take a leading role in the monitoring and evaluation of standards across the whole school and to be a leading professional, actively promoting effective teaching and learning practices across all phases of the school
• Support strategic leadership and direction to the school, working closely with the Headteacher
• Have oversight of the day-to-day management and operations of the school, including timetabling and staff deployment
• Have a passion for leading English across the school
• Be a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
• Have strategic oversight of the CPD offer across school and be committed to the professional development of yourself and others
• Work in partnership with the Headteacher, governors, and staff to ensure the continuous improvement of the school

• Deputise for the Headteacher and when required act up in the absence of the Headteacher

Informal visits to school and discussion with the Headteacher are warmly encouraged. Please contact the school office 01709 828665 or email school@badsleyprimary.org to arrange an appointment.

Visit dates:

Thursday 20th March – 1:30pm

Tuesday 25th March – 9:30am and 1:30pm

Wednesday 26th March – 9:30am and 1:30pm

Monday 14th April – 1:30pm

Wednesday 16th April – 9:30am and 1:30pm

Thursday 17th April – 9:30am

Badsley Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and relevant safeguarding checks will be conducted in line with guidance and Keeping Children Safe in Education.

This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found atwww.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check

Closing date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 09:00

Shortlisting: Week commencing 22nd April 2025

Interview date: Week commencing 28th April 2025

Application packs and further details are available by request - emailschool@badsleyprimary.org.

Completed application forms are to be returned to the same email address.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• A very popular school with a warm, inclusive environment

• The opportunity to work alongside an experienced and ambitious Headteacher and dedicated, experienced staff who are committed to team work and who ensure that high standards are achieved and maintained
• A supportive, warm and friendly environment where we all aspire to be the best that we can be
• Friendly, cheerful, hardworking children who are keen to learn

• A firm commitment to continuing professional development, including opportunities to collaborate

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to school@badsleyprimary.org

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Badsley Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 577 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Badsley Primary School website
• Email address: mwindle@badsleyprimary.org
• Phone number: 01709828665
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/badsley-primary-school

Badsley Primary School is a large, three form entry Local Authority maintained school located in central Rotherham.

At Badsley Primary School we believe our school is a community and that it is vitally important that everyone is safe and happy within it. Through our vision and school school motto ‘Growing Together; Aiming High’, we have high expectations of everyone in our school and we believe that everyone has the ability to achieve great things. We aim to provide an environment in which our children are secure and confident, irrespective of race, gender and religion, with equal opportunities for all.

We value all of our children as individuals. Developing the whole child is important to us and that aim is reflected in all we do. We have lots to be proud of that we want to share with you. Through our core values, we strive to promote ‘The Badsley Way’ for all members of our school community. These values form the whole ethos of our school.

We know how important it is that we work in partnership with parents and families, to help our children enjoy their time at Badsley Primary School, be happy, feel secure and achieve the very best they can. We aim for high academic standards as well as valuing and celebrating creativity and imagination through a broad and balanced curriculum. We want children to leave Badsley Primary as happy, well-rounded individuals who feel confident about the future and look forward to the opportunities and challenges it will bring.

Our vision is embraced in our school motto:

Growing Together; Aiming High

Arranging a visit to Badsley Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mwindle@badsleyprimary.org.

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