25 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    28 April 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    2 April 2025

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

Full-time equivalent salary

£68,586 - £75,675

Pay scale

L14- L18

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Member of a Leadership team

  • Experienced Senior Leader

  • Evidence of impact of current role and a track record of success

  • An outstanding practitioner

  • Expert knowledge of pedagogy and curriculum

  • Expert in measuring impact

  • Track record of examination success

  • Able to accept autonomy and operate professionally maintaining the trust of colleagues

  • Experience of coaching, mentoring and leading training

  • Enthusiastic in leading students and staff with evidence of success

  • Energetic with a high work rate that promotes this in others

  • Commitment to success for all students and ability to motivate them to this aim

  • Good motivational and leadership qualities

  • Evidence of, and willingness to, contribute to extra-curricular activities

  • Ability to set targets, meet deadlines and to work under pressure

  • Demonstrable ability to work with external partners to the benefit of the school

  • Ability to challenge poor performance

  • Ability to present coherent and accurate reports depicting performance to other stakeholders

  • Ability to manipulate data and use it for analysis and improvement

  • An understanding of headline accountability measures and how to use these to raise standards

  • To have led quality assurance at a senior level



What the school offers its staff

Great Wyrley Academy is part of a growing Multi Academy Trust which affords our staff many cross phase opportunities. We are highly ambitious for our students, staff and community and aspire to be exceptional in everything we do. Professional development opportunities are outstanding and we keep staff wellbeing central to everything we do.

We are committed to delivering the very best education for all students. This is demonstrated through the school’s motto of “Relentlessly Pursuing Excellence” and in our recent 'Good' Ofsted judgement. We offer a very friendly and inclusive working environment where children and the community are at the heart of all we do.

The school offers the following:-

  • Career development opportunities across the Trust and the chance to further your career through a wide range of recognised qualifications
  • Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
  • Free, confidential support service provided by an external organisation, Education Support
  • Access to a ‘cycle to work’ scheme saving you money on your purchase
  • Access to offers and discounts with well-known retailers


Further details about the role

Specific Responsibilities:

To lead on all aspects of Student Services Years 7 – 11

The role of the Designated Safeguarding Lead in the school

Commitment to safeguarding

Great Wyrley Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check with barred list check. Evidence of the right to work in the UK.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
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Additional documents

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

About Great Wyrley Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
556 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01922 419311

Great Wyrley Academy is a secondary school and sixth form for students aged 11-18 in Great Wyrley, Staffordshire. The Academy is committed to delivering the very best education and fulfilling the academic personal potential of all and students.

Great Wyrley Academy is renowned for its performing arts specialism, with one of the best indoor theatres in the area. It also has excellent sports facilities including its own swimming pool, gymnasium, fitness suite, outdoor football pitches and newly built multi use games area.

Great Wyrley Academy is committed to delivering the very best education for all students. This is demonstrated through the school’s motto of “Relentlessly Pursuing Excellence” and in our recent ‘Good’ Ofsted judgement.

The Academy’s beliefs and values are practised through the ‘Wyrley Way’. This is a set of values and behaviours that are built upon respect and responsibility that are lived throughout the school.

Great Wyrley strives for students to have a love of learning, be successful learners and gain the knowledge, skills and attributes to be successful in the world of work. Equally, the Academy endeavours for our students to be good human beings, with a sense of purpose and character enabling them to flourish in life.

Arranging a visit to Great Wyrley Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mnewman@greatwyrley.windsoracademytrust.org.uk.

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