Deputy Headteacher/Head of School,
Mayfield School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B19 1HJ14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
5 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership pay range, L17 - L21 - £76,772 - £84,669
What skills and experience we're looking for
EIAT is a thriving Multi Academy Trust in North Birmingham incorporating Wilson Stuart School, Mayfield School, Queensbury School, The Hive College, Lime Tree Nursery and Blue Sky Nursery. We strive to share best practice and work in cohesive, collaborative and innovative ways. Our ethos is 'Better Never Ends'.
Mayfield is a split site special academy providing education for up to 315 pupils aged 3 to 19 with complex special educational needs and disabilities.
The Role
Following the promotion of the current postholder, Education Impact Academy Trust (EIAT) is seeking to appoint a committed and driven Deputy Headteacher who will also be Head of School for Mayfield’s Heathfield Road site.
This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a values‑driven and experienced school leader who shares our ambition to ensure that every pupil at Mayfield is included, understood, valued and makes progress to be suitably prepared for life beyond Mayfield.
Working in close partnership with the Executive Headteacher and the Deputy Headteacher/Head of School for Mayfield’s Wheeler Street site, the postholder will provide strong operational and strategic leadership across the school and will actively contribute to school and Trust‑wide improvement.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing leadership and oversight across EYFS, primary, secondary and sixth form provision
- Leading on specific whole school areas of responsibility
- Promoting a positive, inclusive and aspirational culture aligned with EIAT values
- Leading and supporting staff recruitment, induction, professional development and wellbeing
- Ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding, welfare and pastoral care
- Using data and self‑evaluation effectively to drive continuous school improvement
- Building strong partnerships with parents, carers, governors, trustees and external agencies
- Contributing to collaboration, innovation and shared practice across EIAT
- Deputising for the Executive Headteacher as required
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a compassionate, ambitious and reflective leader who:
- Holds Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Has significant leadership experience, ideally within a SEND or similarly complex educational setting
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of the needs of pupils with complex SEND
- Shares EIAT’s commitment to inclusion, dignity, equality and high expectations for all
- Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills and can inspire confidence and trust and build and maintain successful stakeholder relationships
- Is calm, resilient and solution‑focused, with the ability to lead through challenge
- Values collaboration, professional development and staff wellbeing
Please refer closely to the job description and person specification attached.
Informal conversations and visits are warmly welcomed. Please email hr@educationimpact.org.uk to make an appointment.
What the school offers its staff
Why Join EIAT and Mayfield School?
- A Trust that is collaborative, inclusive, values‑led and people‑centred
- A Trust that is collaborative, inclusive, values‑led and people‑centred
- A supportive senior leadership partnership with strong Trust backing
- Opportunities to contribute to Trust‑wide collaboration and system leadership
- A genuine commitment to professional development and staff wellbeing for all employees
- The opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children, young people and families
- Comprehensive induction and probation support and regular opportunities for professional development and growth
- Ten staff training days across the academic year
- Employee Assistance Programme via BHSF - free totally confidential support
- Access to discounts and offers via BHSF
- Access to the Teachers Pension Scheme
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.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Mayfield School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 304 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mayfield School website
- Email address
- hr@educationimpact.org.uk
Our school is a special school for 310 pupils aged between 2 and 19 with a wide range of special educational needs and disabilities including PMLD, cognition and learning needs and autism. We are proud to be a Unicef Rights Respecting School, on a journey to achieve the gold award.
This post involves working with pupils who have persistent differences with social interaction, social communication and understanding emotions. Our pupils need clear boundaries and consistent support with engagement, learning, emotional regulation, and sensory needs.
The school is split across two sites – Wheeler Street in Lozells (co-located with Holte School and Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery) and Heathfield Road in Handsworth. Curriculum Leaders are expected to work across both sites and are typically committed to teaching 16-19 hours per week.
In recent years Mayfield has engaged with all stakeholders to design the “Get Real” curriculum to be ambitious for all our pupils and equip them with the knowledge, opportunities, and experiences to succeed. Curriculum Leaders play a key part in continuing to develop our curriculum offer, role modelling and monitoring the implementation of the curriculum and assessing its impact. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced or aspiring middle leader to really make a difference to the lives of young people and their families through education.
Arranging a visit to Mayfield School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@educationimpact.org.uk.
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