Deputy Headteacher

Breadsall Hill Top Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4ET

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  14 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  29 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 60644.00 - 66919.00

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Deputy Head Teacher

Required for immediate start (subject to references and DBS confirmation)

Full Time – 32.5 hours per week

All Year Round

Permanent

Salary grade L9-13 £60,644 - £66,919

 

A unique opportunity has arisen for an aspirant school leader.  Breadsall Hill Top Primary has recently appointed a new Head Teacher to start in September 2025. We are seeking to appoint a new Deputy Head Teacher to support our leadership capacity and help to further develop our rapid improvement.

We are looking for a leader who is also an excellent teaching practitioner with, not only high expectations of pupil progress, but also a drive for self-development. 

The successful applicant will be joining our team and play a key role in our two-form entry school, not only in raising attainment, but most importantly helping our children to be happy, safe and secure and creating great memories for them.

In October 2021, BHTP was judged by Ofsted as a Good school so you would be joining Breadsall at an exciting time as we continue to work hard to be the school of choice for our community, provide our children with the highest quality education that enables them to fulfil their potential, discover new talents and develop a love for learning and work towards being a centre of excellence.

We are looking for an inspirational leader who is committed to supporting the Head Teacher and the leadership team develop the strategic vision and is driven by improving the outcomes for all BHTP children. Our work place behaviours place considerable value on taking responsibility, working together, striving for better, caring for people and being fair.

You will:

• Have a proven track record in leading others and strategic change
• Take personal and collective responsibility for ensuring that BHTP achieves its strategic plans and objectives
• Support and drive organisational change
• Handle situations and problems with innovation and creativity
• Show respect and positive regard for others. Work effectively with individuals and teams
• Show evidence of clear analytical thinking and get to the heart of complex problems and issues
• Be a consistently good or better primary teacher with secure evidence-based understanding of what makes great teaching.
• Be reflective, enjoy challenge and embrace support.
• Be passionate about teaching and learning and driven by making a difference to every child.
• Care passionately about children and their holistic development whilst still driving forward pupil progress and achievement.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build on and maintain strong relationships with staff, parents and carers, children, governors and the local and wider community.
• Behave consistently with clear personal values that complement those of BHTP

 

 In return we offer:

•      A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven

towards continuously raising standards.

•      A happy working environment with friendly and well-behaved children,

•      Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

•      Calm and purposeful environments

•      Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

•      Suitable training, including First Aid, where required.

•      Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

 

Or Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment.

How to apply

 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website http://www.transformtrust.co.uk/vacancies. Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Any questions or queries should be directed to Julie Spencer at Breadsall Hill Top Primary School, Email: Julie.Spencer@bhtp.derby.sch.uk Telephone: 01332 341451

Closing date for applications: 12:00 on Wednesday 14^th May 2025

School look arounds strongly encouraged: 6^th, 7^th and 9^th May 2025 – times can be flexible, please call and speak to Julie Spencer on 01332 341451 to arrange this.

Interviews will be held on: Friday 23^rd May 2025

Transform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 8800 children in 25 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire. Joining us, you will be part of an ambitious and innovative organisation. We have a strong focus on empowering our member schools to drive their improvement journey whilst maintaining their own individual identity and community focus.

 

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our purpose is to be an innovative and inclusive Trust working for all children.

 

We are an employer that encourages flexible working and promotes wellbeing through workload considerations.

Commitment to safeguarding

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education.

Applying for the job

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About Breadsall Hill Top Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 428 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Breadsall Hill Top Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/breadsall-hill-top-primary-school-derby

Breadsall is a warm and caring community housed in extensive grounds with 6 separate classroom blocks, 2 halls and a number of intervention spaces.



As a team we constantly strive to achieve the very best for you and your child in order to create successful and happy children. Education is a partnership between home and school and we place a great deal of emphasis on our relationship with parents. We believe that children learn best when home and school work together for their benefit.



Our RESPECT code and vision is a living and breathing representation of our school where expectations of ALL pupils are the highest for Learning, Behaviour, Attendance and Punctuality. As a learning community we are committed to providing only the best quality teaching and learning opportunities both in the classroom and outdoors. We have an exciting and engaging curriculum based on a cross curricular approach, which aims to link thinking across subject areas and also develop positive learning behaviours and key skills for life-long learning.



We are a growing school, we know our children well and acknowledge that building positive relationships coupled with high expectations and high quality learning are the keys to success. However parents/carers are important partners in every child’s education and with our support we actively encourage and expect parents/carers to engage in supporting their child’s learning.



Please visit our website https://www.bhtp.co.uk/welcome/ which gives you a flavour of what our wonderful school has to offer, if you have any questions please contact the school office. But don’t simply take our word for it – come and see for yourself; we would be delighted to show you around.

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