Deputy Headteacher
Primrose Lane Primary School, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6DX27 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
4 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 January 2025
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: Full - time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L2- L6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Deputy Headteacher job summary
Important qualities in our new Deputy Head:
- An excellent classroom practitioner with high expectations of all pupil groups.
- Passionate about teaching and learning and can motivate and enthuse pupils and colleagues.
- Nurturing whilst setting high expectations, along with the Headteacher creating a positive culture for the holistic development of all children.
- The ability to engage in difficult conversations in a productive and professional manner.
- Proven track record in building a close and productive partnership with parents and the wider community.
- Promote and maintain a culture of high expectations for all staff.
- Have a fair, positive and calm approach to ensure all pupils meet high expectations of excellent behaviour.
- A pro- active subject leader with experience of effective subject leadership.
- Committed to equity and inclusion recognising the excitingly diverse world children will be part of.
- A good understanding of how a school supports children’s development beyond the academic.
- Positive, motivating, confident, inspiring, and fun!
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A friendly school that is a happy and healthy place to learn and work.
- A strong commitment to continuous professional development including working in partnership with Roundhay School and the the Wharfe Valley Learning Partnership
- The chance to be part of a school that is passionate about inspiring our pupils and enabling them to reach their full potential.
- A chance to be a part of a caring and nurturing environment with an exciting vision for the future
- A commitment to support you and your professional development.
Further details about the role
The role will include:-
- Responsibility for the progress and attainment of the children in their class.
- Working with the Headteacher to manage teaching and curriculum support staff.
- Implementing and reviewing the curriculum and its assessment alongside subject leaders.
- Supporting the Headteacher in strategic direction and development to plan, allocate and evaluate the work undertaken in school, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and responsibilities and continued rapid improvement.
- Promoting the safeguarding of all pupils
- Communicating with pupils and parents and listening to any concerns.
- Leadership of Personal Development and of a core subject.
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 info@primroselane.leeds.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Primrose Lane Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 205 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Primrose Lane Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- baileyl@primroselane.leeds.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01937 842 667
Primrose Lane is a community primary school with 200 children aged 3-11. Our school is close to the centre of Boston Spa, an attractive rural village located on the outskirts of Leeds. Primrose Lane is proud of its reputation as a caring and successful school focused on learning and individual achievement.
We are a nurturing and inclusive school, providing a broad and balanced curriculum to ensure all children within our care develop a love of learning and can make progress, no matter their background or special educational need.
Arranging a visit to Primrose Lane Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email baileyl@primroselane.leeds.sch.uk.
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