Deputy Headteacher
Pirehill First School, Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 0AA29 days remaining to apply
Job start date
28 April 2025
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 December 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: Monday to Friday 32.5 hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L8-L12
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our staff and governors are looking for a Deputy Headteacher who:
- Is an outstanding teacher who leads by example with experience across the primary phase
- Has experience of leadership at middle or senior level with a proven track record for whole school improvement
- is a forward thinking practitioner with a key interest in innovation and research to drive teaching and learning forward for all pupils including SEND
- Have proven skill to monitor, evaluate and report on standards of attainment, teaching and learning and data analysis
- has an ambitious drive and high expectations of achievement for all pupils and has the motivation, organisation with the inter-personal skills to inspire this in others
- has the ability to manage change and shape future school improvement
- is committed to working collaboratively with staff, parents/carers, governors and the local community.
Our children and parents are looking for a Deputy Headteacher who:
- Loves children and will encourage their passion for learning
- Be enthusiastic, creative and innovative
- Will understand their needs and develop their individual talents
- Will be a visible, friendly and supportive presence around the school
- Builds good relationships with parents, carers and their families
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- Hard working, and motivated children who are happy and keen to learn
- Enthusiastic and highly motivated staff and governors
- Strong and effective links with parents and the community
- Management time to develop your role.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@pirehill.staffs.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Pirehill First School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 264 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Pirehill First School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@pirehill.staffs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01785 334970
Pirehill First School is very much a Community School situated in the residential area of Walton, Stone. We are very fortunate in having beautiful, well maintained grounds which are used throughout the year to enhance our children’s learning, this includes our extremely popular Forest School which is accessed by all of our pupils. Our school is a joyful place of learning which offers a rich and varied curriculum both within and outside of the school day.
Our Ofsted inspection in May 2022 confirmed that we are a ‘good’ school and parents reported that the school is ‘exceptional’, ‘supportive’ with ‘kind and caring staff’.
At Pirehill, we pride ourselves in our excellent standards of teaching, pupil progress, attainment and behaviour. We strongly believe that every child has a right to reach their full potential and succeed in their own unique way, whether that is via sport or music, the arts, or by their own academic excellence. In understanding the unique child, by celebrating their strengths and through working together, our children learn very important lessons in life. We show that we care and respect everyone and everything, by living up to our Pirehill Principle.
Proud, Independent, Respectful, Enthusiastic, Happy and Healthy, Intelligent Individuals who Love Learning and who Love Life
Arranging a visit to Pirehill First School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@pirehill.staffs.sch.uk.
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