Deputy Headteacher

North Durham Academy, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 0TW

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  21 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £84,699.00 - £93,424.00 Annually (Actual) L21 - 25

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Deputy Headteacher

North Durham Academy

Are you an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of improving attendance, behaviour and safeguarding within a secondary school? North Durham Academy is seeking a dynamic and resilient Deputy Headteacher to lead strategic improvement in attendance, behaviour and safeguarding, playing a pivotal role in shaping a culture of high expectations and inclusion.

Working closely with the Headteacher and Trust, you will provide visible and decisive leadership across the academy, driving improvements in attendance so that every student can fully access their education, embedding a consistent and uncompromising behaviour culture, and ensuring safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do. As Designated Safeguarding Lead, you will ensure robust systems, strong practice and a vigilant safeguarding culture that protects and supports all students.

This is a key leadership role requiring a confident and values-driven professional with a proven track record of impact at senior level. You will use data intelligently to identify need, intervene early and secure measurable improvements, while line managing senior leaders and holding teams to account for the highest standards. You will be a visible presence around the academy, modelling professionalism and building strong relationships with students, staff and families.

We are looking for a leader who combines strategic insight with relentless drive, who can challenge, support and inspire others, and who is fully committed to creating a safe, calm and purposeful learning environment where every child feels known, valued and protected.

In return, we offer a significant leadership opportunity with real influence over whole-school culture and outcomes, a supportive Trust network and a committed staff team who share a strong moral purpose to improve life chances for all students.

Visits to North Durham Academy are warmly welcomed and encouraged. This is a great opportunity to meet our staff and students, experience the school environment and learn more about the role and our community. To arrange a visit at a convenient time, please contact Charna Kay PA to the CEO at c.kay@connectmat.org.uk

Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

Please note that we operate a probationary period of 4 months across all jobs in the Trust (see attached policy for further details). You will receive a comprehensive induction to support you to successfully pass your probation

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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

Commitment to safeguarding

Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About North Durham Academy

• School type: Academies, Does not apply, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 976 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: North Durham Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/north-durham-academy

Connect Multi-Academy Trust is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools and 5 primary schools.

Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.

The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.

To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.

The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.

The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.

Our Aims are:
To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
At North Durham Academy, we are openly focused on the educational outcomes of our students and firmly believe that placing the student at the centre of everything we do will ensure that they leave with both the best possible grades and having had the best possible experiences throughout their time with us.

In order to realise this, we work with our vision in mind at all times:

“For all students and staff to want to learn and work at a good school; and for all parents/carers from our community to want to send their children to a good school.”

There are a number of key principles that underpin the vision, which are:

Outstanding care for each and every individual
A relentless drive and focus to ensure that each and every student achieves their true potential
A focus on the quality of education and on high standards
A broad and balanced curriculum
A range of in-school and extra-curricular experiences to prepare our students for life in modern society
Superb facilities which support and enhance learning at all levels including achievement and engagement

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