Deputy Headteacher (Pastoral Care)

Roundwood Park School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 3AE

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  5 March 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  10 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: L18-22

Deputy Headteacher (Pastoral Care) job summary

Deputy Headteacher (Pastoral Care)

Leadership Scale Pt 18-22

Full-time

Start date: September 2025

The promotion of a current Deputy Headteacher to be the school’s new Headteacher from September 2025 creates an exciting opportunity on our Leadership Team. The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher, and an exceptional leader and communicator across all our stakeholder groups (staff, students, parents and the community). They will share our ethos, and also our determination that even an Outstanding school is on a never-ending journey of improvement.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the leadership and management of pastoral care within a large secondary school. This role will include responsibilities relating to promoting student welfare, and for behaviour management, to ensure a safe and supportive learning environment for students, and to promote positive behaviour amongst students and staff, creating an environment and ethos in which all members of the school community can thrive.

Our OFSTED grading has recently been confirmed as Outstanding (November 2023) and the inspection team have written that:

‘Staff say that they are very well supported. Staff feel valued. They have high praise for how leaders look after the staff’s well-being and their workload.’

‘A school of exceptional quality.’

‘Pupils meet leaders’ exceptionally high expectations for their work, personal development and behaviour.’

‘A highly ambitious curriculum is in place for all pupils. A broad and rich curriculum prepares pupils exceptionally well.’

You can find out more about us from our website or from our various very lively social media pages.

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You are very welcome to visit before you decide whether you may wish to apply. If you would like to visit please phone or email Janet Wallis, PA to the Headteacher, on 01582 714004 j.wallis@roundwoodpark.co.uk

At Roundwood Park School, we continue to strive to build a diverse and inclusive workplace ensuring that our student body is represented in the staff and where everyone feels valued. Through our work in the last year with the Great Representation programme and the completion of the Anti-racist School Audit with HfL Education, we are actively committed to ensuring equity and inclusion is a continued priority throughout all things we do. It forms a major element of our school improvement plan in order that the work we do makes a sustained difference for all. We therefore strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented groups, and are committed to create an environment where everyone feels seen, heard and feels that they belong - a place where everyone can flourish.

We will need to obtain references in advance of interview for any candidate short-listed, and all job offers are subject to satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare. We also have a sincere commitment to equal opportunity and to the celebration of diversity, including in our staff recruitment. We welcome applications from all sections of our community very warmly, and we recognise the huge strength and opportunity that comes from diversity in all aspects of our make-up. We will need to obtain references in advance of interview for any candidate short- listed, and all job offers are subject to satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.

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About Roundwood Park School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1370 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Roundwood Park School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/roundwood-park-school-harpenden (opens in new tab)

Roundwood Park is a high achieving 11-18 school in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Our OFSTED grading has recently been confirmed as Outstanding (November 2023) and the inspection team have written that:

‘Staff say that they are very well supported. Staff feel valued. They have high praise for how leaders look after the staff’s well-being and their workload.’

‘A school of exceptional quality.’

‘Pupils meet leaders’ exceptionally high expectations for their work, personal development and behaviour.’

‘A highly ambitious curriculum is in place for all pupils. A broad and rich curriculum prepares pupils exceptionally well.’

You can find out more about us from our website or from our various very lively social media pages.

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