15 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    1st September 2026, however earlier start negotiable

  • Closing date

    13 March 2026 at 9am

  • Date listed

    26 February 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Deputy headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

L18-22

What skills and experience we're looking for

St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy is entering a new and important phase of its development. Recent years have brought significant challenge, but also the foundations for renewed confidence and stability. In order to consolidate and drive further improvement the Trust Board has added additional deputy headteacher to the school. This ambitious and values-driven Deputy Headteacher will build on emerging strengths and ensuring that improvement is both rapid and sustainable. We wish to appoint the best possible candidate and have the ability to be flexible in the allocation of specific responsibilities.

This is a key strategic appointment and we are looking for a leader with a proven track record of improving outcomes, strengthening teaching and learning and using data to inform and secure sustained improvement.

Working closely with the Headteacher and the existing Deputy Headteacher, the successful candidate will provide inspirational leadership, ensuring that every pupil achieves their full potential through consistently high-quality teaching, a rigorous curriculum, and a culture of high expectations.

What the school offers its staff

We recognise that employee wellbeing and work-life balance are essential to thriving in the workplace. The Trust places a high value on providing a range of benefits for all colleagues, beyond the essentials of receiving professional recognition, networking and CPD, commensurate financial reward and job satisfaction. Please take a look at our website and social media channels to get a real sense of the support that we provide to all our employees, including out full staff benefits package: www.pfcmat.org/Staff-Benefits-Package/

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary school
School size
757 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01514778770

At Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, our mission is to become the number one school of choice in the local area. It will be a school characterised first and foremost by our faith and strength of our Catholic community. We will be recognised for having an exceptional curriculum
that provides pupils with powerful academic knowledge and the character development they need to really 'Live life to the full'.

Arranging a visit to Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email l.worthington@seaca.pfcmat.org.

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