Deputy Headteacher
Milborne Port Primary School, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 5EP19 days remaining to apply
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L3 - L8
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an exceptional, ambitious leader to join our team. The successful candidate will not only inspire and support the leadership at Milborne Port, but will also join a group of passionate Deputy Headteachers to further develop our organisation together. Your professional development will be bespoke and you will be supported by your Headteacher and one of our experienced ACE Strategic Advisors to strengthen and hone your leadership skills. You will automatically be part of the Trust’s Talent Management programme where you will have opportunities to grow and develop further.
We are looking for exceptional candidates who:
- Have a commitment to the mission, vision and ethos of the school and Trust
- Have successful leadership experience within a primary setting with evidence of impact
- Can inspire and motivate both colleagues and children to enable them to be the best that they can be
- Have demonstrable experience of successful line management and staff development
- Have an understanding of highly effective pedagogy, based on evidence, and will have the ability to model this for others and support others to improve
- Are aspirational for the achievement of disadvantaged children, using strategies based on evidence
- Will be committed to ensuring that all children achieve the highest possible outcomes
- Will work in partnership with colleagues across the Trust and in the school, the local committee and the wider community to ensure that our mission is translated into action
You will be a reflective and ambitious leader with excellent interpersonal qualities, with the ability to motivate, inspire and hold others to account.
Teaching Commitment: One afternoon PPA and one afternoon leadership time. Teaching commitment is in KS2 for the remainder of the week.
What the school offers its staff
The Academies for Character and Excellence consists of twenty primary schools across Devon and Somerset, making us a dynamic and innovative learning organisation.
We live our mission and return to this constantly to help guide every action. At the heart of all we do is the pursuit of excellence: we want to grow an exceptional Trust, comprised of excellent schools. We are achieving this through our shared core values of collaboration, community, equity, integrity and of course uncompromising excellence.
We are truly collaborative and we work together within and across our schools to ensure that all our children and staff achieve their potential. Together we work to create a full and rich curriculum allowing everyone to flourish – we translate our vision of excellence into our everyday practice. We are proud of our outcomes, but we aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence for our children. We also want our children to become healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants and confident individuals.
We aim to serve our communities, and our schools make every effort to connect with families, local community groups and organisations to ensure that our children and families are nurtured, supported and provided with opportunities. We want our schools to feel rooted within our communities.
Our value of equity leads us to want the very best for every child and every member of staff. The Academies for Character and Excellence believes in ‘Personal Growth for All’ and we are committed to tackling inequalities and overcoming disadvantage, and to providing bespoke opportunities for professional learning for all.
At the heart of Milborne Port Primary School is a shared love of learning and discovery. Our vision is to ‘Build a Foundation for Life’, fostering a broad, balanced, and creative education that maximizes learning and develops children’s spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural aspects. We also aim to ensure all our pupils feel happy, secure and valued and enable them to make a worthwhile contribution as young people within their community.
We believe that every child is able to succeed and that every child can make outstanding progress if nurtured. All of us at Milborne Port Primary School believe that teaching is a chance to change a child’s life; to ensure a lifelong love of learning and aspiration for all to achieve.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Milborne Port Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 180 pupils
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Milborne Port Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk
Arranging a visit to Milborne Port Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk.
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