Deputy Headteacher

Wixams Academy, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 6BA

41 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 April 2025

• Closing date

  31 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 December 2024

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
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £75,675 - £83,464

What skills and experience we're looking for

Please see the job description below.

What the school offers its staff

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Further details about the role

Due to our continued growth, we are now seeking to appoint an exceptional Deputy Headteacher to join our school and to work within our dedicated and enthusiastic team.

Wixams is one of the most rapidly growing developments in the southern region, straddling the boundary of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough, and is characterised by beautiful open countryside, lakes, and an aspirational and vibrant close-knit community. Sitting just south of Bedford it has grown rapidly over the last 10 years.

At full capacity by 2030, Wixams Academy will be a Year 7-13 secondary school and sixth form, for 1750 students. We currently have pupils from Year 7-13 and we are adding forms of entry each year to meet local demand. The Academy building provides the community with excellent state-of-the-art facilities throughout with significant extensions and additional sports facilities which opened in September 2024.

We work closely with local primary schools including Lakeview, Wilstead and WixamsTree Primary. Our collective aim is to create an outstanding educational offer for localfamilies.

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

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Wixams Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 926 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Wixams Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: n.robertson@ks-t.org
• Phone number: 020 8600 0675
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wixams-academy (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Wixams Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email n.robertson@ks-t.org.

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