Deputy Headteacher
Bishops Hull Primary School, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5EB28 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
25 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
28 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership L3 – L8 £54,394 - £61,534
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a strategic, innovative, and driven Deputy Headteacher who will play a pivotal role in shaping the next stage of our school’s journey. You will be a strategic leader who is passionate about continuous improvement and able to bring clarity, purpose, and momentum to whole school priorities.
Working closely with the Headteacher, you will lead on key areas of school improvement: modelling excellence and ensuring that initiatives are not only implemented but embedded, evaluated, and impactful. You will empower staff to refine and elevate their practice, ensuring consistency, ambition, and high expectations across all phases of the school.
We are seeking an outstanding classroom practitioner who leads with credibility, inspires others, and ensures that pupils experience exceptional teaching every day. Your practice will reflect the highest standards of pedagogy, innovation, and inclusive learning, setting the benchmark for excellence across the school. This post includes a two and a half day teaching commitment.
As a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL), you will play a central role in maintaining our embedded safeguarding culture. You will ensure that all procedures are robust, statutory responsibilities are met, and staff are confident, well-trained, and vigilant in fulfilling their duties to keep children safe. You will work closely with families and external agencies to ensure that every child is protected, supported, and able to thrive.
This role requires a leader who can drive impactful change, build strong and trusting relationships, inspire staff at all levels, and ensure that outcomes for children continue to rise. Your strategic leadership, moral purpose, and commitment to excellence will help secure the very best educational experience for our pupils.
If you are a highly motivated leader who is eager to make a significant, lasting difference within a high performing and ambitious school, we warmly welcome your application.
We are looking to appoint a Deputy Headteacher who will:
- Be an exceptional, inspirational classroom practitioner with a proven track record of securing high-quality teaching, raising standards, and modelling excellence across the school.
- Use evidence informed practice to guide decision-making, improve outcomes, and lead whole school improvement with clarity and purpose.
- Hold unwavering ambition for the school, its pupils, its staff and the wider community, demonstrating the drive, optimism and moral purpose required to achieve excellence.
- Have a strong track record of leading and embedding sustainable change, including curriculum, inclusion or school improvement projects, and rigorously evaluating their impact on pupil outcomes.
- Demonstrate expertise in mentoring and coaching colleagues at all career stages, nurturing talent, developing strengths and building capacity across the school.
- Think and act strategically, showing resilience, sound judgement and the ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced leadership role.
- Be a champion for safeguarding, inclusion and diversity, ensuring statutory responsibilities are met and that all children feel safe, supported and valued.
- Be an articulate and influential communicator, able to build strong professional relationships and foster partnerships within and beyond the school as a system leader.
- Be a positive, collaborative team player who lives and promotes the values, ethos and ambitions of both the school and the Blackdown Education Partnership.
- Work in close partnership with the Headteacher and senior leadership team to drive improvement, shape strategic direction and secure exceptional outcomes for all pupils.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- Exceptional mentorship and support including a strong commitment to ongoing professional growth with meaningful collaboration and leadership opportunities across the Blackdown Education Partnership.
- A personalised, high-quality CPD package designed to develop you in your role and support your future career ambitions.
- An ambitious, dedicated and highly skilled staff team that values teamwork, trust and professional excellence.
- Clear opportunities for career progression within a forward-thinking Trust that nurtures talent and invests in future leaders.
- A comprehensive health and wellbeing offer, prioritising your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing as a member of our team.
- Wonderful pupils who are motivated, curious and eager to learn, making Bishop’s Hull a truly rewarding place to work every day.
- Eligibility to join excellent pension scheme.
- Option to make additional voluntary contributions to pension for local government pension scheme members which can help boost retirement benefits.
- Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities.
- Trust wide charity events designed to encourage our people to participate in meaningful activities.
- Access to wellbeing provision which offers information and advice on a range of workplace and personal issues.
- Flexible working opportunities.
- Enhanced special leave provision, including additional time off as part of our ‘Personal Day’ entitlement which supports employees to achieve a better work/life balance.
- Free car parking.
- On site catering facilities, all of which provide healthy and nutritious meals at a low cost.
- Gym membership. Many of our schools have on-site gyms, the use of which is available to employees at a discounted rate.
- Cycle to work scheme which enables employees to purchase a bike and accessories for their commute to work.
- Free tea and coffee.
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Bishops Hull Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 215 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bishops Hull Primary School website
- Email address
- office.school@bishopshull.bep.ac
- Phone number
- 01823 331624
Arranging a visit to Bishops Hull Primary School
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