Deputy Headteacher - Teaching and Learning

Botley School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9JZ

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st January 2026

• Closing date

  18 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  6 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,394.00 - £60,145.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Scale 3 - 7

Deputy Headteacher - Teaching and Learning job summary

Deputy Headteacher - Teaching and Learning

Permanent

Leadership 3 - 7

Are you ready to lead in a forward-thinking, ambitious school with a strong commitment to innovation and inclusion? We’d love to meet a Deputy Headteacher who shares our vision and values, and is eager to make a lasting impact on pupils, staff, and the wider school community.

We are a vibrant and diverse school on the edge of Oxford City with extensive outdoor learning and forest school facilities, looking for innovative class teachers with a deep understanding of how children learn. We can offer a friendly, committed and supportive staff working with pupils who are highly motivated and enjoy learning.

Job purpose:

As Deputy Headteacher leading Teaching and Learning, you will be an experienced teacher with a passion for supporting all pupils to achieve aspirational outcomes. Working closely with the Head Teacher and other senior colleagues the DHT will lead teaching and learning and ensure consistent fidelity to the Botley School Pedagogical Principles across all phases of the school, in order to make our motto, “Creating Excellence, Embracing All”, the lived experience for all children.

Under the direction of the Headteacher, you will:

• Lead Teaching and Learning across the school through the Pedagogical Principles
• Determine the strategic development of the curriculum to ensure consistent fidelity to the principles across all subject.
• To oversee the day-to-day operation of teaching and learning across all phases of the school with oversight on planning and assessment.
• Lead the promotion, direction and oversight of high standards of quality first Teaching and Learning in liaison with the Headteacher and the Deputy Head teacher for Inclusion
• Act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Undertake the professional duties of the Headteacher, in the event of their absence from school.

For the job description and person specification, please see attachment or visit www.botleyschool.org.uk/vacancies

Applications must be submitted via My New Term accessed on the school website.

School visits from applicants are welcomed. Please contact us on 01865 248573 (or email as above) to arrange.

Closing date: Friday 17th October 2025
Interviews: Week beginning 20th October 2025

We look forward to hearing from you.

Please note, we may contact suitable candidates before the closing date.

Botley School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A full enhanced DBS check is required for this post prior to commencement.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Botley School is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A full enhanced DBS check is required for any post prior to commencement.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Botley School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 209 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Botley School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/botley-school-oxford

Just outside Oxford city, Botley School is a welcoming and diverse school with a positive learning culture. We have high quality, motivated staff working together to provide a flexible, challenging and broad curriculum, and a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities.

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