Deputy Headteacher

• Full time
• Permanent placement
• Up to £50K annually

Long - Term Teachers have a fantastic senior leadership opportunity for an experienced deputy headteacher, to join a specialist school that provides a high quality, therapeutic approach. The school supports both boys and girls from ages 7 to 17, all of which have SEMH and SEND. The work they do is both varied and challenging and as a trauma and attachment informed organisation, all staff are provided with extensive therapeutic training and support.

About the role

• Support decision making and problem solving
• You will work closely with a team of school leaders in similar settings across the region and the country, alongside a specialist Regional SENCO.
• Liaising with agencies to help with recruitment and supply requirements
• This role is 50% (0.5) FTE Teaching and 50% (0.5) Leadership Responsibilities

Commencing from Term 2, this is a full time, permanent position, working Monday to Friday, term time only.

The Right Person

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• A proven record of good or outstanding teaching practice.
• An excellent, efficient and emotionally intelligent communicator.
• The ability/willing to teach a subject specialism to GCSE or equivalent vocational level.
• A strong desire to work inclusively within an emotionally literate environment, supporting children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
• Experience of crisis-management/managing challenging behaviours and working with children with SEMH difficulties.
• Proven experience of implementing a creative and academically engaging curriculum which meets the needs of individual pupils, whilst maintaining high standards of education
• Experience of effective working with hard-to-reach or disengaged families.

Benefits and Rewards

• Staff laptop and mobile phone
• Competitive salary
• Extensive training and professional qualification opportunities
• Small class sizes with specialist TA support
• The chance to be part of an expanding, national organisation that recognises skill, effort and potential and grows its own leadership teams
• Enhanced occupational sickness scheme
• Flexible pension
• Regular therapeutic and supportive supervision
• Employee benefit service with access to wellbeing services, salary sacrifice schemes, high street vouchers, money off eating-out and takeaways

Working with Long Term Teachers:

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.

LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.

We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.