Deputy Headteacher - Inclusion
Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford, OX4 4SF8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
2 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
1 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
- £62,202.00 - £68,586.00 Annually (Actual) L10-L14
Deputy Headteacher - Inclusion job summary
Rose Hill Primary School is looking for a skilled, knowledgeable and passionate Deputy Headteacher to lead on Inclusion, Teaching and Learning, and act as our SENDCo. This is a new role in our school with the opportunity for somebody to really make it their own. Our pupils and community deserve the best of the best in leadership, inclusion and strategy and we are looking for a Deputy Headteacher who can offer this.
We are interested in hearing from candidates who:
Have experience in rapid and sustained school improvement
Have a vision and passion for maximising the life chances of every pupil through an excellent primary education
Can lead a team of teachers on teaching and learning
Are excellent classroom practitioners themselves
Can develop and maintain strategic oversight of teaching and learning, SEND and inclusion
Are ready for a new, exciting progression in their leadership
Rose Hill and this role will offer you:
Autonomy to create a role that really makes a difference
A rapidly improving school on a really exciting journey
Pupils who are happy, confident and love to learn
Colleagues who really believe in the direction of the school and maximising the chances of everyone in it
A sharp focus on colleague wellbeing, with workload considerations at the heart of all decision making
An excellent programme of leadership CPLD
The opportunity to be part of a supportive Trust with network links and colleagues across a variety of school contexts
Day-to-day good humour and support - we care about each other at Rose Hill and we can smile together through even the toughest days!
This will be a non-teaching role in the first instance, other than an afternoon of PPA cover (to be arranged to suit the successful candidate’s skillset).
We would strongly encourage potential candidates to visit our school. Please arrange a visit with Rhiannon Wilkie, Headteacher, by emailing headteacher@rosehillprimary.org or telephone 01865 777937.
What we can offer / about your school
Rose Hill Primary School is a really special place. It serves the community of Rose Hill in East Oxford, which is brilliantly diverse. Our school is inclusive and everybody is welcome here. Our school has a higher-than-average level of disadvantaged pupils and so we believe that our team of colleagues must be made up of the very best in all areas. We know that sometimes the school context presents challenges, but everybody here is valued for the work that they do and the contribution they make. We work closely with the River Learning Trust so that everybody can feel supported, and so that everybody has access to high-quality professional development opportunities. A new Headteacher started at the school in November 2024 and the whole school team are working closely together to drive up standards in all areas of school life.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and Rose Hill Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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 are not accepted.
About Rose Hill Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 293 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Rose Hill Primary School website
Rose Hill is an enjoyable and interesting place to work with a brilliant cultural mix and a broad, child-focused curriculum.
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