Deputy Headteacher

Friars Academy, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 2LA

29 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  23 February 2026 at 7am

• Date listed

  22 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £73,104.00 - £80,653.00 Annually (Actual) ISR Group 6 - L15 - L19

Deputy Headteacher job summary

The Directors seek to appoint a skilled and committed professional who can help to ensure that Friars Academy maintains the high standards it currently holds.

We are a secondary school for pupils with an increasingly diverse range of special educational needs.

The successful applicant will help us meet the existing challenge of developing our provision and curriculum to enable our pupils to make even better progress and gain skills and accreditation for later life.

• Applications are encouraged from all aspiring senior leaders, whether from mainstream or special education who:

  • Have significant behaviour management/pastoral experience.
  • Can engage with pupils, parents, and the wider community.
  • Have excellent organisational and communicational skill.
  • Have a positive attitude and drive.

  • We offer:

    • A committed staff team
    • Awe inspiring students
    • Opportunities for innovative ways of working
    • An opportunity to build and further develop good practice
    • High quality professional development opportunities

    In addition, free on site parking, high quality food cooked on site and 24/7 access to an Employee Assist Programme.

    We encourage you to visit our school to see for yourself.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Friars Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• School size: 143 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Friars Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/friars-academy

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