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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    12 June 2025 at 4:05pm

  • Date listed

    23 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Deputy headteacher

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Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Leadership L14 - L18 (Outer London) £72,531 FTE - £79,630 FTE

Deputy Headteacher job summary

The Beckmead Trust is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs across various sites. We are seeking an experienced Deputy Headteacher to join the team at The Beckmead Park Academy.


As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work. 


If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Croydon, we would welcome an application from you. 


For further information please see the attached job description.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff, volunteers and contractors, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance (including the ability to participate in Physical Intervention), satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents/issues which are publicly available online.

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About Beckmead Park Academy

School type
Academy, ages 5 to 16
School size
108 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 16
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SEN SCHOOL: Beckmead Park Academy, is an all-through mixed SEN school situated over three sites in the London Borough of Croydon:

Bramley Bank - Key Stage 1 & 2

Beckmead School - Key Stage 2 & 3

Tharreo House - Key Stage 3 & 4

We have 136 pupils on roll with most having an Educational Health Care Plan.

All of our pupils have Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties with associated challenging behaviour; many have additional needs, including: Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties, ADHD and Severe Social Anxieties. We offer a nurturing approach to education and social development and employ a therapy team, working in a range of different disciplines, such as play, music, drama, art and Lego therapy. We also have strong working relationships with CAMHS, the Early Help and social care teams.

We deliver a broad and balanced curriculum that can be tailored to meet the individual needs of our pupils. We try to take into account their interests and aptitudes, whilst building core skills and supporting a strong knowledge base. Our pupils are taught within the nurture model with high staff pupil ratios that enable us to provide an individualised, bespoke approach to learning.

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