Deputy Headteacher
Green Park Village Primary Academy, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 6AXThis job expired on 15 December 2025
Start date details
13th April 2026 - subject to satisfactory safer recruitment checks
Closing date
15 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £61,534.00 - £67,898.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership Pay Scale L8-L12 FTE £61,534 - £67,989, full time, MAT cover up to one year fixed term
Deputy Headteacher job summary
Green Park Village Primary Academy would like to offer you the chance to apply for this exciting and vital role of Deputy Headteacher.
The role of Deputy Headteacher will require you to work with the Headteacher to embed outstanding teaching and learning across the school through the development of the curriculum and staff. You will be required to deputise and lead in the absence of the Headteacher.
In particular, successful applicants should have:
- The relevant degree and QTS
- At least four years experience of teaching in the primary setting, with leadership experience of at lease one core subject
- Experience of successful Ofsted inspections
- Evidence of further effective professional development
- Experience of successfully managing and leading a team, including working within HR processes
- Be aware and compliant with the monitoring and evaluation process
- Be able to contribute to the SEF and SDP, being impactful in all actions
- Have a proven record of raising educational standards by using data and have the ability to set targets to achieve this
Successful applicants must have experience of leading safeguarding as Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), to continue effective safeguarding practice. The Deputy Head is the school's DSL. The Deputy Head is the school's Attendance Champion, working closely in and support and challenge capacity with all stakeholders.
Successful applicants must be able to showcase outstanding teaching in their current setting,
You should:
- Be a courageous leader, driven by values and able to articulate significant evidence of relational leadership
- Have strong leadership skills that result in the provision of first-class learning and teaching for opportunities for all pupils, particularly those with SEND or in receipt of PP
- Be skilled to line manage and work alongside the school's SENDCo to continue the school's strong inclusive provision
- Be able to develop outstanding practice in learning and teaching through credible modelling and side by side peer support, setting targets for continuous improvement and provide support through appraisal, planning and delivering CPD on matters of learning and teaching as required
- Be extremely well organised, able to consistently follow the school's effective systems, procedures and established practice
- Be a supportive member of the team and able to bring out the best in others
- Be willing to work across schools in the cluster, as part of systems leadership
For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion with Gemma Jackson, Head Teacher, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only (within the school day).
Why work with us
There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:
▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing
You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS with Child’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.
About Green Park Village Primary Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 207 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Green Park Village Primary Academy website
Green Park Village Primary Academy is a new primary school built in a new housing development in Reading, Green Park Village, which opened in September 2020 in its permanent school building. In September 2023, the academy will have Reception to Year Three cohorts. The school will grow to be full two-form primary, with space to open a Nursery provision for pre-school children. The school serves a diverse community of families both local and from across Reading.
The academy has a small, passionate and committed team, working hard together to take us to the next level in our journey towards exceptional futures for all of our children. There is no doubt about it, setting Green Park Village Primary Academy up on its next phase will take vision, dedication and hard work, but being part of that exciting and rare journey will be very rewarding to see the academy continue to take shape over the next few years. To see more information about the school please visit our website www.greenparkvillageacademy.org
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