Deputy Headteacher
Tower Road Academy, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 9PXThis job expired on 10 February 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Term 5 April 2025
Closing date
10 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £60,644.00 - £66,919.00 Annually (Actual)
Deputy Headteacher job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious and experienced leader to join our popular and thriving primary school as Deputy Headteacher. The successful candidate will have the ability to lead, inspire and motivate colleagues and children and significantly contribute to the continual development of the school. Working as part of an established leadership team, you will hone your leadership skills as you work collaboratively to build on the school’s existing strengths. As part of Keystone Academy Trust, you will join a family of schools that benefit from supporting each other.
Tower Road Academy is a three-form entry school in Boston, Lincolnshire. Our expansive site provides a wide range of facilities that boosts our curriculum offer to pupils, including a dance studio, all-weather sports pitch and computing suite. The school has high aspirations for pupils and is recognised as a ‘nurturing, friendly and ambitious school’ (Ofsted, 2024).
Our school’s vision, ‘Learning for Life’, underpins our aim to impart knowledge, promote values and provide opportunities for the school community. Personal development of pupils, and professional development of staff is central to the school’s work.
The successful applicant will:
- be an excellent classroom practitioner with high standards of teaching, learning and behaviour in their own practice
- be a supportive flexible member of the team who works well in partnership with all stakeholders and who develops excellent relationships with children, parents/carers and colleagues
- be enthusiastic, positive and a facilitator of improvement.
The school will offer:
- well-behaved children who love to learn.
- a dedicated and talented team of staff, who are highly motivated to provide our pupils with the best primary education
- opportunities to work collaboratively across the multi academy trust which believes in ‘forging stronger futures for all’.
Visits to the school are highly encouraged before applying. Please contact sarah.smith@tr.keystonemat.org to arrange a visit or discuss the post further. Alternatively, call the school office on 01205 365922.
Closing date: Monday 10 February 2025
Interviews: Friday 14 February 2025
All applications should be submitted using ‘My New Term’ which can be accessed by our school website. Vacancies at Tower Road | Tower Road Academy
Keystone Academy Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates prior to appointment, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity. All pre-employment checks are in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
The trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
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.
About Tower Road Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 572 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Tower Road Academy website
School location
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