Deputy Headteacher
Furzefield Primary School, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 3PA75 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 January 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
Full-time equivalent salary
- £57,979 - £66,994
Pay scale
- L6 - L12 (Fringe)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Core purpose of the role:
The Deputy Headteacher at Furzefield Primary School is a key member of SLT, responsible for driving educational excellence and fostering a nurturing and inclusive environment where every pupil can thrive. The role encompasses leading the development and implementation of a broad, balanced, and ambitious curriculum that reflects the school’s values of Kindness, Respect, Resilience, Aspiration, and Inclusion, ensuring high standards of teaching and learning across all year groups.
A critical element of the role will be leading on assessment strategies to monitor, evaluate, and drive pupil progress and attainment. The Deputy Headteacher will ensure that assessment practices are robust, consistent, and meaningful, enabling the school to identify and address gaps in learning effectively. This includes developing systems to support teachers in using data to inform planning and teaching, ensuring that all pupils can achieve their full potential.
Working in close partnership with the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher will play a vital role in shaping the school’s strategic direction, tackling key operational priorities, and maintaining a relentless focus on improving outcomes for all pupils. They will actively support the professional development of staff, promoting evidence-based teaching practices, fostering subject expertise, and ensuring assessment is integral to curriculum design.
As part of their varied responsibilities, the Deputy Headteacher will occasionally step into ad-hoc teaching roles to meet the immediate needs of the school, maintaining strong connections with classroom practice. This dynamic and rewarding position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on pupils' lives while helping to drive the school’s continued success.
Key Responsibilities:
As Deputy Headteacher of Furzefield Primary School, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Quality of Education:
- Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of an ambitious and inclusive curriculum that reflects the school’s values.
- Ensure teaching across the school is consistently high-quality, evidence-based, and meets the diverse needs of all pupils.
- Support subject leaders in developing their curriculum areas, ensuring depth, progression, and consistency.
Assessment and Progress:
- Lead whole-school assessment practices, ensuring systems are robust, meaningful, and used effectively to inform teaching and learning.
- Analyse pupil performance data to identify trends, monitor progress, and implement targeted interventions.
- Provide guidance to staff on formative and summative assessment methods that maximise impact.
Teaching and Learning:
- Lead the drive for high standards of teaching and learning across the school, ensuring that lessons are engaging, inclusive, and impactful.
- Model exemplary classroom practice, providing coaching, feedback, and support to develop staff expertise.
- Establish and sustain a culture of continuous improvement, where innovative teaching strategies and evidence-informed practices are encouraged.
- Ensure the effective use of formative and summative assessment to monitor and advance pupil progress.
- Foster a collaborative approach to planning, teaching, and evaluating learning, supporting staff in refining their practice.
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer:
We are a genuinely friendly, supportive and highly collaborative team. We operate within a leadership structure that promotes and encourages professional challenge with kindness and respect. We value wellbeing, mental health and psychological safety within the workspace and our school values are woven throughout everything we do; they apply to pupils and staff in equal measure.
We are passionate about personal growth and professional development and will always offer staff the opportunity to further their careers wherever possible. If you are ambitious and passionate about your work, then this is the place for you. We trust our professionals to do their jobs and can offer an environment where you will feel empowered to make decisions; with support, guidance and CPD available for all members of staff.
We offer a generous pension, flexible working where possible and an ethos and culture where work-life balance is encouraged and facilitated wherever possible. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program with a 24-hour mental health support helpline as well as regular face to face supervision sessions with a qualified external counsellor retained by the school.
If we sound like the type of school you are looking for, please complete the application form and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role to HR@furzefield.surrey.sch.uk by the closing date. We encourage applicants to visit the school before applying – if you wish to book a visit and meet informally with some of our team, please call us on 01737 642842.
Flexible working opportunities
Commitment to safeguarding
Furzefield Primary School is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As such this post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@furzefield.surrey.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Furzefield Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 434 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Furzefield Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- ann.johnstone@furzefield.surrey.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01737 642842
Furzefield Primary School is a vibrant and inclusive mainstream primary school committed to providing a nurturing learning environment for our students. We strive to empower young minds, foster a culture of growth and kindness, and support our community in Merstham, Surrey. We are a two-form entry school with a maintained Nursery, Specialist SEND Centre for 14 pupils and Family Centre on site. We are every inch a community school with high levels of parental engagement and collaboration.
The school has recently been inspected by Ofsted (March 2023) under the leadership of the recently appointed new Headteacher (September 2022). We are proud to have received a GOOD rating overall with an OUTSTANDING judgement for our Personal Development offer. We offer a creative and rich curriculum that promotes learning outside the classroom, including Forest School. Staff are friendly and supportive – we are proud of this and it defines who we are.
Arranging a visit to Furzefield Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ann.johnstone@furzefield.surrey.sch.uk.
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