Deputy Headteacher
Paternoster School, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 1JR20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
9 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £60,644.00 - £66,919.00 Annually (Actual)
Deputy Headteacher job summary
About You
The successful applicant should have a passion for delivering the best possible outcomes for our pupils who have special educational needs and disabilities. You should be a committed, compassionate leader with proven experience in SEND and inclusive practice, capable of deputising for the Headteacher and driving school-wide improvement.
The Role
We are looking to appoint a dynamic Deputy Headteacher from 1st September 2025 to join our fantastic team. The Deputy Headteacher will provide dynamic, strategic leadership alongside the Headteacher, ensuring high standards of education, care, and wellbeing for pupils aged 4–16 with a broad range of special educational needs. The Deputy Headteacher will play a key role in the day-to-day leadership of the school, supporting the development of teaching and learning, safeguarding, staff development, and school improvement.
The Trust
We are passionate that every child deserves the very best education. As a partnership we will: improve outcomes, opportunities and life chances for children and young people, offer more / wider support for their families and share and develop staff expertise.
Our Benefits
By joining our team, we can offer you, generous annual leave allowance, generous pension scheme (TPS), Employee Assistance Program & Counselling, Occupational Health Service, Continuing Professional Development and Staff Get Staff Referral Scheme. Applications for flexible working or job share will be considered on an individual basis.
Additional Information
SAND Academies Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. As part of our Safe Recruitment Practice, we will need a completed application form before any offers, and all staff will require safeguarding/pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS, satisfactory health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Please ensure that you have read and understood the information within the Candidate Information pack and understood our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders which can be found on our careers page.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Paternoster School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 17
- School size
- 66 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 17
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Paternoster School website
School location
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