Deputy Headteacher
The Brakenhale School, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 7BA7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
13 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week, Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Fringe Leadership pay scale, points 18-22 (£80,134-£88,237)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Deputy Headteacher. This is an exciting opportunity to join GLT / Brakenhale School and become an integral member of the Senior Leadership Team. We are an 11 to 18 school situated on the southern side of Bracknell town centre. Our commitment to high standards and outstanding teaching has led us to become the school of choice for families in Bracknell Forest.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.
Main responsibilities:
- To act as a role model in leading all staff in their own excellent leadership, their delivery of high quality teaching and learning, their continuous professional development and their professional presence in the school
- To personally, consistently deliver high quality teaching that leads to excellent student progress and outcomes
- To contribute and lead on the implementation of the School Improvement Plan
- To lead, alongside the Headteacher, in the operational work of the school on a day to day basis
- To Line Manage Assistant Headteachers, and potentially Heads of Department, by providing regular support and challenge in a way which recognises good practice, supports their progress and results in a tangible impact on students learning, progress and outcomes
- More found in job pack
You will need:
- Qualified Teacher Status.
- Relevant in-service training during the last two years
- Worked within a SLT for at least three years
- Evidence of personal impact on individuals and teams that has resulted in improved
performance and outcomes
- Successful experience of managing whole school change to bring about clear evidence
of school improvement for all or groups of students
- A track record of successful whole school strategic planning across both the short term
and the long term which has led to improved outcomes
- More found in job pack
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Please download the recruitment pack for further information.
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Brakenhale School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1108 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Brakenhale School website
- Email address
- hr@brakenhale.co.uk
Brakenhale School is a rapidly growing, high performing 11-19 secondary school with a strong commitment to high standards for students and staff. We are a friendly school, with a firm commitment to providing professional development opportunities for our staff and a passionate belief that every student in our school matters.
We have recently been judged as Good by Ofsted (January 2019) with 3 Outstanding categories; Leadership and Management, Personal Safety and Behaviour and our Post 16 Provision. We are incredibly proud to be the local secondary school of choice for the fourth year running.
Arranging a visit to The Brakenhale School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@brakenhale.co.uk.
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