Deputy Principal
Elstow School, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 9GP10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
6 May 2025 at 8am
Date listed
25 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £55,453.00 - £61,212.00 Annually (Actual) AL 5-9 £55,453-£61,212 dependent on experience
Deputy Principal job summary
Deputy Principal
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced school leader to join the senior leadership team as a Deputy Principal at Elstow School. We are seeking to appoint an ambitious, enthusiastic and dedicated leader with a passion for raising standards through excellence in teaching and learning.
The candidate will need to be able to think and lead strategically, as well as maintaining a high profile, ‘on-the-ground’ presence, ensuring consistency of excellence across the school.
This position is ideal for a candidate with existing successful senior or middle leadership and line management experience. Evidence of having effectively led on whole school initiatives would be an advantage.
Key Duties
To support the Principal in the smooth running of the school.
To deputise for the Principal when required.
Strategic leadership, in conjunction with the Principal, of the quality assurance of all aspects of the school’s academic and wider performance, self-evaluation and development planning.
Strategic leadership of specific areas of accountability, dependant on the successful candidate’s experience and expertise and that of the wider SLT team.
Line management of senior and middle leaders.
Teaching commitment as directed by the Principal.
The ideal candidate will have
- Qualified teacher status
- Degree
- Professional development in preparation for a leadership role.
- Leadership and management experience in a school
- A proven track record of excellent teaching
- Previous involvement in school self-evaluation and development planning
- A strong understanding of the impact of Curriculum & Assessment
- Experience of successful line management and staff development
- Experience of impacting positively on standards
- Experience of whole school responsibility including any pastoral experience.
- Outstanding communication skills and the ability to form positive relationships with stakeholders
- The ability to lead and inspire staff
- Advanced understanding of safeguarding/child protection procedures
- Alignment and commitment to the perspective, vision and values of Advantage Schools
Job Specifics
Start date 1st September 2025
Salary Advantage Schools Leadership Pay Scale 5-9
Job role Permanent, Full time
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our students. The successful applicants will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Elstow School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 410 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Elstow School website
In 2017, Elstow School was proud to join Bedford Free School and become part of an exceptional offer to families in Bedford.
Elstow School offers a truly enriched and academic curriculum. We really do believe that our pupils can go on to achieve extraordinary things.
We take our values of We Care, We Share, We do our best, very seriously. They underpin our routines, our curriculum, and what we strive to develop in our pupils.
We work hard on our culture in which the highest expectations and aspirations surround all of our pupils, delivering on our families’ demand for excellent educational opportunities.
We deliver a knowledge-based curriculum to enable our children to go on to excel at secondary school and beyond. We make sure that the latest research informed practice guides our teaching development and this in turn means that the lessons are coherent.
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