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  • Earliest start date

    1 April 2025

  • Latest start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    2 December 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    24 November 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

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

L8-L14

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a leader who is looking for a Deputy Headteacher position? Do you want to work in a positive, forward thinking school with wonderful families, children and staff? Do you want to make a real difference to the life chances of young children? We are looking for a Deputy Headteacher who can start in September 2025 or sooner if possible. We have lots to offer, including flexible working and development opportunities. Why not come for a visit, at a time that suits you, to find out more?

We want to employ someone who is passionate about enhancing the life chances of children. We are looking for an effective teacher who is positive and wants to develop. We want someone who is excited about the impact education can make to the lives of children.

We are not looking for the ‘perfect’ candidate, but someone who has the right attributes and attitude to succeed. In your application, tell us what you’ve done and achieved so far and your aspirations for this post and beyond.

Please see the Person Specification for more details.


What the school offers its staff

Oakridge School is two-from entry school in High Wycombe. There is a vibrant and inclusive learning community committed to providing high-quality education and fostering the personal development of all our students. We pride ourselves on our supportive environment, dedicated staff, and a strong partnership with families and the wider community.

The school has amazing, polite and respectful children who love being at school and learning. The staff all share the school’s vision of ‘Enhancing the life chances of all our children.’ We feel strongly about wellbeing and workload, which is why we have developed the attached, ‘Wellbeing and Workload Charter.’

As Deputy Head, you will play a key role in partnership with the Headteacher, driving school improvement, enhancing the quality of teaching and learning, and ensuring the wellbeing of both staff and students. You will be working closely with the current Headteacher who has overseen the school’s journey from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good,’ and is willing to support a candidate whose ambition may be to become a Headteacher. Three senior leaders now hold Headship positions.

At Oakridge School, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our students’ lives. We offer a supportive working environment, flexible working if needed, ongoing professional development, and a collaborative team atmosphere.

We are looking forward to welcoming someone to our forward-thinking Leadership Team, who recently won ‘Primary School Leadership Team of the Year,’ in the 2024 Buckinghamshire School Awards.

You will be working with a teaching team who are open-minded, work well together and enjoy improving their knowledge and developing their practice. You may have some experience of developing others.

You will be working with wonderful children, who have excellent behaviour and learning attitudes.

This is a non-class based teaching role.

Flexible working opportunities

We can offer flexible working. Please discuss with the Headteacher what would suit you when visiting the school or prior to application.

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.

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About Oakridge School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
476 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Phone number
01494 520341

We have great children - ‘In every session visited, pupils were engaged and interested in their learning’ Buckinghamshire Side by Side Leadership Champion 2020

‘The commitment Oakridge staff have to their children is spine tingling.’ School Improvement Advisor 2020

‘The children and staff make Oakridge a wonderful place to work’ - Staff Survey 2020
‘We feel part of the Oakridge family.’ Parent Survey 2021

There is a lot of energy at Oakridge and this is a really exciting chapter in the school’s development.

Our children come from a diverse range of backgrounds, however they have one thing in common - their excellent attitude to each other and their willingness to learn. This is a school where you can make a real difference.

‘The children at staff make Oakridge a wonderful place to work’ - Staff Survey 2020
‘We feel part of the Oakridge family.’ Parent Survey 2021

There is a lot of energy at Oakridge and this is a really exciting chapter for the school’s development.

Arranging a visit to Oakridge School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email head@oakridge.bucks.sch.uk.

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