4 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2024

  • Closing date

    7 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    22 April 2024

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: 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Leadership payscale L7-L11

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint an inspirational, ambitious Deputy Headteacher, to join our dedicated and enthusiastic team. The successful individual will work with the Headteacher to embed outstanding teaching and learning across the school through the development of the curriculum and staff.

At Lower Farm Academy we strive to ensure that all our pupils are happy, confident, ambitious individuals with a passion for learning; who possess the skills, knowledge, learning attitudes and behaviours to enable them to be successful in the world today, and in the future.

We achieve this through creating a strong sense of community and by providing high quality teaching and learning opportunities through an inspiring curriculum.

We provide all staff with excellent CPD, a supportive working environment and the opportunity to contribute towards projects, initiatives and experiences that make a real impact.

We are seeking a Deputy Headteacher who demonstrates a commitment to our school ethos and vision and who is:

  • Driven by values and can exhibit deep evidence of relational leadership
  • Experienced in curriculum development and improvement
  • Experienced in working in diverse settings with associated challenges and deprivation
  • Experienced in transforming schools sustainably and compassionately with demonstrable impact

We can offer you:

  • Strong, supportive leadership and a caring, enthusiastic and cohesive staff team
  • A commitment to providing high quality professional development
  • Encouragement to develop new ideas
  • The opportunity to make a real difference to change the lives and futures of our children

What the school offers its staff

  • A wide range of professional development opportunities and the opportunity to work with some of the best educational professionals in the country,
  • Membership of the Teacher’s Pension Scheme TPS,
  • Access to professional coaching and mentoring,
  • Annual leadership events, workshops and conferences,
  • REAch2 in in a position to be able to offer a relocation package for the right candidate.
  • Performance related bonus against agreed KPIs

As part of REAch2 employee benefits we also offer an eye care scheme, access to an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family and membership of ‘perks at work’ – which includes discounts on holidays, shopping, family days out and much more.

Commitment to safeguarding

At REAch2 we recognise that academies and academy personnel 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 of our pupils.

Applying for the job

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@reach2.org

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About Lower Farm Academy

School type
Free School, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
View all Primaryjobs
School size
189 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Phone number
024 7526 7760

Part of Reach2 Primary Academy Trust

Arranging a visit to Lower Farm Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email head@lowerfarmacademy.org.

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