Deputy Headteacher
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Start date details
TBC
Closing date
16 February 2024 at 9am
Date listed
23 January 2024
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Spine Point 11-15
What skills and experience we're looking for
The post affords the opening for an ambitious leader to make their mark and establish a culture of sustained excellence in a truly unique school. The responsibilities of the post will draw on the strengths of the successful candidate.
The successful candidate must:
- Be an outstanding classroom practitioner
- Be unrelentingly ambitious for the school, its staff and pupils
- Have proven leadership experience and the potential and desire to develop further
- Have vision, enthusiasm and the ability to work effectively within a team as a leader
- Be able to manage long-term objectives whilst dealing effectively with fast-moving day to day priorities
- Champion a culture of inclusion and be fully supportive of pupils with a diverse range of talents and abilities
What the school offers its staff
The ideal candidate will be an experienced leader who can demonstrate sustained, quantifiable impact at middle or senior level. Above all we are seeking someone who is proactive, can contribute fresh ideas, is collaborative, goal-orientated, confident, and who tackles challenges effectively.
The post provides the opportunity to:
- work as a member of a new leadership team to further develop and embed the vision and aims of the school in partnership with pupils, staff, governors and parents
- provide clear strategic direction for teaching and learning
- lead the school in the absence of the headteacher
- support the SENDCo to embed a fully inclusive ethos where every child has the opportunity to access an education that supports them to make the best possible progress
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 Wooden Hill Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 423 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- nakita.swanson@woodenhillprimary.co.uk
Arranging a visit to Wooden Hill Primary and Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email nakita.swanson@woodenhillprimary.co.uk.
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