Deputy Headteacher

The Catholic School of Saint Gregory the Great, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3QG

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  23rd Feb or sooner

• Closing date

  26 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £57,132.00 - £65,010.00 Monthly

Deputy Headteacher job summary

The Role

We are seeking to appoint an inspirational and passionate Deputy Headteacher to join our senior leadership team and play a key role in leading the school forward within the LWCET. The focus of this role will be Pastoral Care, Behaviour, Safeguarding and Inclusion, ensuring that every child is known, valued and supported to flourish academically, socially, morally and spiritually.

To apply for this role, candidates must be practising Catholics who are fully supportive of the values and mission of Catholic education.

We are looking for a candidate who will:

Be an inspirational and highly effective classroom practitioner, recognised for delivering consistently excellent teaching and learning, and for modelling the highest professional standards. Demonstrate the ability to inspire, coach, and develop others through exemplary practice and professional credibility.

Be approachable, reflective, and an effective communicator, able to build trust, foster collaboration, and maintain positive relationships with pupils, staff, families, governors, and wider partners. Contribute strategically and proactively as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Demonstrate a proven ability to lead impactful whole-school improvement, particularly in areas such as pupil outcomes, curriculum development, behaviour, wellbeing, and inclusion—showing a clear commitment to safeguarding, equality, and the Catholic ethos and mission of the school.

Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight in key areas such as safeguarding, pastoral care, attendance, and behaviour, ensuring systems are robust and inclusive.

We can offer you:

Pupils who demonstrate a strong sense of belonging within this welcoming, inclusive Catholic community.

A supportive, skilled and dedicated team of staff and governors who work together with integrity and care.

A well-resourced learning environment, including a purpose-built Pastoral Hub offering outreach and in-reach support.

Opportunities to work collaboratively with leaders across the Little Way Catholic Educational Trust to both strengthen practice and develop other career opportunities

A community rooted in faith, inclusion and hope, where the wellbeing of both pupils and staff is a genuine priority.

Employee assistance programme, half price childcare in attached nursery, cycle to work scheme.

Visits and Application Process Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged.

Please contact Claire, our School Business Manager at SBM@st-gregorygreat.gloucs.sch.uk to arrange a visit.

Closing date for applications: 26th November 2025 @ 9am Interviews: 4 th December 2025

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 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 The Catholic School of Saint Gregory the Great

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 411 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Catholic School of Saint Gregory the Great website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-catholic-school-of-saint-gregory-the-great-cheltenham

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