Deputy Headteacher

Mount Pleasant Primary, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 3BY

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  21 March 2025 at 4pm

• Date listed

  28 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: L7 - L11 £57,831 - £63,815 pa

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Exceptional Deputy Headteacher Wanted – Join Our Team!

Are you an experienced practitioner and leader with a passion for nurturing the success of every pupil?

Do you believe in creating an environment where students and staff grow and thrive together?

We are looking for a dynamic and inspirational Deputy Headteacher to join our school and take a lead on developing outstanding support for pupil behaviour while helping our colleagues thrive as subject leaders.

The Role: As Deputy Headteacher, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and leading our school’s vision for behaviour management and subject leadership development.

You will take charge of ensuring high standards of behaviour are maintained across the school and work closely with staff to develop their leadership roles in their respective subject areas.

You will be required to teach for one day a week and so must be an excellent classroom practitioner too.

The Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust and Governors of Mount Pleasant Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. These posts are subject to an enhanced DBS with children’s barred list check and will follow a safer recruitment policy.

Visits to our school are strongly encouraged. Please telephone or email the school if you would like to visit on Tuesday 11th March at 10.30am or Wednesday 19th March at 2.00pm. The phone number is 01743 249135 and email address is: admin@mountpleasantsbmat.com

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Mount Pleasant Primary

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 356 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Mount Pleasant Primary website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-pleasant-primary-shrewsbury

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