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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    22 April 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    4 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Deputy headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£77,552 to £92,052 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for an exceptional Vice Principal to help lead us on our journey to excellence.

We want to hear from outstanding leaders who have proven success within a school leadership role. You will be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people with the natural ability to inspire and motivate both pupils and peers.

As an exceptional teacher and leader, you will make a significant contribution to the success and leadership of our school, working closely with the Principal to deliver excellence in education. As a Star leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

  • A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
  • Experience of senior leadership and management within a school setting.
  • Experience of successful and sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
  • A strong commitment to our STAR values.

What the school offers its staff

About Oulder Hill Leadership Academy

Oulder Hill Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Rochdale, which joined Star Academies in March 2022. We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all our pupils, as evidenced by our most recent Ofsted inspection in January 2025, when we were graded ‘Good’ in all four areas of the inspection framework.

Like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism – providing a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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How to apply
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Additional documents

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About Oulder Hill Leadership Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1184 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01706 645522

School location

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