Deputy Headteacher

Tymberwood Academy, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4BN

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  May or September 2026

• Closing date

  13 March 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  26 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £61,534.00 - £67,898.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Pay Scale 8-12 (Permanent, Full time)

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Tymberwood Academy would like to offer you the chance to apply for this exciting and vital role of Deputy Headteacher.

The role of Deputy Headteacher will require you to work with the Headteacher to embed outstanding teaching and learning across the school through the development of the curriculum and staff. You will be required to deputise and lead in the absence of the Headteacher.

Tymberwood Academy is a thriving two‑form entry school, known affectionately as “the hidden gem of Gravesend” Our renewed vision, “Rooted in values. Reaching for excellence,” reflects our determination to build strong values, raise expectations, and ensure every child receives the best possible start in life.

Tymberwood is a school with big ambitions. We place children’s needs and life chances at the centre of everything we do. Our learning environment is warm, nurturing, and aspirational, and we encourage our pupils to challenge themselves, build confidence, and develop independence. Alongside securing strong foundations in reading, writing, and mathematics, our whole curriculum offer broadens horizons and sparks curiosity. We are very fortunate to have extensive grounds and facilities that the children can enjoy all year round.

We promote a culture where teamwork, reflection, and professional learning are central to improving outcomes for all pupils. Our aim is to ensure every child is understood as an individual and supported to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

Tymberwood has a long‑established commitment to inclusive practice. Our work is firmly centred on children’s needs, with the belief that every pupil can succeed, no matter their starting point. Our ethos of consistent care, purposeful nurture, and high aspiration remains at the heart of our identity.

Families can feel confident that Tymberwood is a place where children are cared for deeply, challenged appropriately, and offered rich opportunities to grow into confident, curious learners.

With strong safeguarding practice, a positive approach to behaviour, and an increasing focus on personal development, Tymberwood is a school where children enjoy learning and staff are committed to making a real difference.

In particular, successful applicants should have:

• The relevant degree and QTS
• At least four years experience of teaching in the primary setting
• Experience of successful Ofsted inspections
• Evidence of further effective professional development
• Experience of successfully managing and leading a team
• Be aware and compliant with the monitoring and evaluation process
• Be able to contribute to the SEF and SDP
• Have a proven record of raising educational standards by using data and have the ability to set targets to achieve this

You should:

• Be driven by values and able to articulate significant evidence of relational leadership
• Have strong leadership skills that result in the provision of first-class teaching and learning opportunities for all pupils
• Be able to develop outstanding practice in teaching and learning, setting targets for continuous improvement and provide support through appraisal, planning and delivering CPD on matters of learning and teaching as required
• Be extremely well organised
• Be a supportive member of the team and able to bring out the best in others

For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

Why work with us

There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:

▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
 
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
 
▶️ A  support package for staff wellbeing

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

 All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.  

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 Tymberwood Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 402 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Tymberwood Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tymberwood-academy

Tymberwood Academy is an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ school as reported in February 2022. We take workload seriously and work collaboratively with staff to enable an effective work-life balance. As a school we are moving towards being sustainably great. With this in mind, we firmly believe that our children – with a whole variety of different strengths and skills - need to be cared for, need to be loved and need to know that you are fighting for them. Our staff believe that our pupils can go on and do any job or role in the future and essentially that anything is possible. Our staff go above and beyond to enable that to happen. As a forward thinking and progressive school we are a hub for professional development and opportunity where our staff voice matters and is valued. We encourage our teachers to elicit change and actively contribute to help shape our school.

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