Head of Campus
Silverwood School, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 2QQ11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L19 -L23
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
Salary: L19 - L23 dependent on experience
Location: Chippenham, SN15 1QF & SN15 3QH
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Silverwood is seeking a dynamic Head of Campus for our Chippenham site (which supports our primary phase, with a separate sixth form site). This is a strategic leadership role that extends beyond traditional headteacher responsibilities. In this role, you will oversee education at the Chippenham campus while driving senior strategic initiatives across the school. Working closely with the Director of Learning, you will help shape and implement a shared vision that inspires pupils, staff, and the wider community. Your leadership will be pivotal in embedding our core educational values, a strong moral purpose, and an unwavering commitment to meeting the needs of all learners.
In addition, you will collaborate with the Director of Learning to develop and implement a strategic view of the school and its community. By analysing and planning for future needs, you will secure the school’s ongoing success and continuous improvement, ensuring high-quality teaching and learning and better outcomes for every pupil. This is a unique opportunity to take individual and collective professional responsibility for championing Silverwood’s vision, values, and mission.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide strategic leadership and management for the Chippenham campus, the primary phase and the sixth form.
Lead and inspire staff to deliver outstanding education and care.
Drive continuous improvement and innovation in teaching and learning.
Promote a positive and inclusive school culture aligned with Silverwood’s values.
Work collaboratively with the Director of Learning and Executive Headteacher to ensure the highest standards.
Engage with families, external agencies, and stakeholders to enhance pupil outcomes.
Manage resources effectively to support staff and pupil development.
Work collaboratively with other Heads of Campus to support Silverwood’s development.
This role is a full-time position (1FTE) based at our Chippenham campus, with cross site working at our other campuses at Rowde and Trowbridge.
What the school offers its staff
Silverwood School is committed to all aspects of personal development, it is inclusive and seeks to ensure every individual achieves. You will be part of the Teacher’s Pension Scheme, Wiltshire Employee Rewards and offered continuous professional development.
Commitment to safeguarding
Under section 175 of the Education Act 2002, Governing Bodies of maintained schools are required to ensure that their functions are carried out with a view to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. It is vital that schools adopt recruitment and selection procedures that help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children or are otherwise unsuited to work with them, in order to safeguard children.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to Jennieclarke@silverwood.wilts.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Silverwood School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 453 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Silverwood School website
- Email address
- Jennieclarke@silverwood.wilts.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01380 850309
Silverwood School is a maintained co-educational special school for pupils aged 4 to 19 years. We formed in September of 2020 with campuses in Chippenham, Trowbridge and Rowde:
We have an ambitious vision to create a truly integrated and inclusive system of outstanding education for all young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Wiltshire. Wiltshire are investing in a £33 million new build at one site to create a state of the art centre for SEND education, health, and care and training focusing predominantly on pupils with complex SEND.
Our inclusive system of excellence will seek to re-balance and improve educational provision for all children and young people with SEND, including those currently in mainstream schools and resource bases or in other alternative provision. Offering local and community-based SEND provision across a wide area from its new inception. It will also deliver high quality training and expertise to a wide range of SEND settings across the county.
Arranging a visit to Silverwood School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Jennieclarke@silverwood.wilts.sch.uk.
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