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  • Start date details

    January 2027

  • Closing date

    29 September 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    15 September 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 (FTE) Leadership 21-25 (Pay award pending)

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Deputy Headteacher
North Durham AcademyWe are seeking to appoint an exceptional Deputy Headteacher to join our senior leadership team and play a pivotal role in the continued success of North Durham Academy.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious and inspirational leader who is passionate about education and committed to ensuring every young person achieves their full potential. Working closely with the Headteacher, you will provide strategic leadership across the academy, helping to shape its vision, drive improvement and create an environment where students and staff can thrive.

As Deputy Headteacher, you will support the professional leadership and management of the academy, deputising for the Headteacher when required and contributing to all aspects of school development. You will work alongside senior and middle leaders to promote high standards of teaching and learning, secure excellent outcomes for students and ensure that the academy continues to deliver an ambitious and inclusive educational experience.

The successful candidate will be an experienced and highly effective leader with a proven track record of improving outcomes and inspiring others. You will have the ability to think strategically while maintaining a strong operational focus, building positive relationships with students, staff, parents, governors and the wider community. Above all, you will share our belief that every child deserves the highest quality education and the opportunity to succeed.

In return, we offer the opportunity to work within a supportive and ambitious Trust that is committed to professional development, collaboration and leadership growth. You will join a dedicated team of professionals who are driven by a shared purpose: transforming the life chances of young people.

We warmly welcome visits from prospective candidates and encourage you to come and experience our school community first hand. This is an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues, learn more about the role and discover what makes our schools such rewarding places to work. Please email Kim Lax (PA to the Headteacher) at K.lax@ndacademy.co.uk to arrange this.

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

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About North Durham Academy

Organisation type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary school
Size
935 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Website
North Durham Academy website
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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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