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Deputy Headteacher of Behaviour and Attitudes
Tottington High School, Bury, Lancashire, BL8 3LY13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025 or potential for Easter 2025
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday - Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £73,819 - £81,441
Pay scale
- L17 - L21
What skills and experience we're looking for
Tottington High School is at an exciting point in its journey. We are fully committed to fostering a culture of high expectations, respect, and inclusion and recognise that behaviour, attendance, safeguarding, and student attitudes play a fundamental role in academic success and wellbeing. That’s why we are seeking an outstanding Deputy Headteacher to lead and implement a transformational strategy that ensures a positive, ambitious ethos across the school.
As Deputy Headteacher for Behaviour and Attitudes, you will drive a consistent and fair approach to behaviour management, ensuring high expectations for all students. You will take the whole-school strategic lead for initiatives which promote positive attitudes to learning, strong attendance, and a culture of respect and responsibility both in and beyond the classroom. Additionally, as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), you will play a crucial role in safeguarding, ensuring that all students feel safe, supported, and able to thrive.
Could you be our leader? If so, we want to hear from you!
For this key role, the ideal candidate will:
- be an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of improving behaviour, attendance, and student attitudes in a secondary school setting.
- be passionate about inclusive education and understand the importance of relationships in shaping student conduct.
- have the ability to inspire, challenge, and empower students and staff to achieve the highest standards.
- be committed to safeguarding and student welfare, ensuring a safe and supportive school environment.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of young people and contribute to the continued success of Tottington High School.
In return we can offer:
- A dynamic, thriving and caring workplace, under the leadership of an inspirational and highly experienced Headteacher
- A route to Headship through the Shaw Education Trust Talent Management programme with opportunities such as 1:1 coaching, school visits and CPD
- The opportunity to study for a Level 7 (masters degree level) qualification in leadership and management
- Undertaking trust-wide work such as taking part in Health Checks, targeted support and mentoring in other schools.
Join us in shaping a school where every student takes pride in their learning, behaviour, and future.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL,
NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
Flexible working opportunities
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.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Tottington High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 935 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Tottington High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
Tottington High School is a secondary academy located in Tottington, Bury, providing high-quality education to pupils aged 11–16 years.
Tottington’s welcoming, lively and innovative school community helps pupils to leave the school as well-rounded individuals with ambition and self-confidence. School staff recognise the potential of all their students and provide opportunities that challenge their abilities, resulting in the school having a good record of consistently achieving impressive academic results coupled with personalised support and guidance; helping every student achieve their full potential – culturally, morally, socially, spiritually as well as academically.
Our Mission Statement states:
“We pledge, through respectful relationships, to ensure all members of our community are supported in taking responsibility for their own learning, to become ‘well-rounded’ and caring individuals, with the skills, attributes, qualifications and experiences to prepare them for their and our futures.”
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