Deputy Head Teacher/SENDCO
| Posting date: | 25 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 5ED |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 89771351-6fcc-4b49-a05e-e5bcaccd6ffb |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The children, staff and governors of Farsley Farfield Primary School are looking for an inspirational, forward-thinking practitioner with proven leadership skills to fill the post of Deputy Head Teacher/SENDCo as a key part of our senior leadership team from September 2025 or asap thereafter.
The Deputy Headteacher/SENDCo will inspire and support an enthusiastic team, be an excellent and innovative teacher, communicate well with all stakeholders and play an active part in our community-centred school. You will lead SEND provision in school and support the headteacher in both the strategic and the day to day running of the school.
We are very inclusive, with at least 35 children expected to have an EHCP or FFI funding in September 2025. Ofsted described our provision for SEND as ‘exceptional’. Can you help us to sustain and build on this excellent inclusive practice?
The successful candidate needs to be the sort of person that is optimistic, imaginative and ‘thinks big’. Experience of successfully leading SEND previously would be a significant advantage.
Are you:
• Looking for a post where you can really make a difference and have significant responsibility?
• Passionate about teaching and learning, inclusion and focussed on raising standards?
• Able to lead, challenge and empower staff, parents and children?
• An excellent role model and effective at motivating and supporting a team?
An ability or willingness to drive a minibus would be welcome. Subject expertise in music, PE or geography could be useful, but certainly not essential. We are an IT-heavy school and confidence with IT would be essential.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone seeking a headship within the next five years. The two previous holders of this post have both secured Leeds headships. This is a rewarding place to work.
Farsley Farfield Primary School is a large, popular, consistently ‘good’ school with an intake of 60 and 440 pupils on roll (including up to 52 nursery children), and a Children’s Centre (for now). In 2017, we were awarded the prestigious TES national Healthy School of the Year in recognition of our extensive and ambitious work on food and physical activity.
We are a split-site school on one fabulous green campus. This post is intended to be non class-based, operating on both sites, but there is likely to be some occasional teaching.
We would welcome you to visit our lovely school prior to submitting your application. Please email the school to arrange this. We would also strongly recommend browsing our website and class blogs to get an insight into our school and our ways of working.
Closing date: Friday 9th May at noon
Interview and assessment day: Friday 16th May
Completed application forms are to be emailed directly to office@farsleyfarfield.org.uk. CVs not accepted.
We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.An online search will be completed for all shortlisted candidates. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, satisfactory references and a satisfactory pre-employment health check.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A fabulous mix of children - socio-economically, ethnically and in terms of academic standards - and supportive wider school community
• Well-behaved children who are enthusiastic and excited to learn
• Plenty of space, inside and out, to provide wonderful learning, sporting and recreational opportunities - the best primary school grounds a recent DfE surveyor had ever seen
• Talented, hardworking and imaginative staff who make working together a pleasure
• A commitment to your professional development
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.
The children, staff and governors of Farsley Farfield Primary School are looking for an inspirational, forward-thinking practitioner with proven leadership skills to fill the post of Deputy Head Teacher/SENDCo as a key part of our senior leadership team from September 2025 or asap thereafter.
The Deputy Headteacher/SENDCo will inspire and support an enthusiastic team, be an excellent and innovative teacher, communicate well with all stakeholders and play an active part in our community-centred school. You will lead SEND provision in school and support the headteacher in both the strategic and the day to day running of the school.
We are very inclusive, with at least 35 children expected to have an EHCP or FFI funding in September 2025. Ofsted described our provision for SEND as ‘exceptional’. Can you help us to sustain and build on this excellent inclusive practice?
The successful candidate needs to be the sort of person that is optimistic, imaginative and ‘thinks big’. Experience of successfully leading SEND previously would be a significant advantage.
Are you:
• Looking for a post where you can really make a difference and have significant responsibility?
• Passionate about teaching and learning, inclusion and focussed on raising standards?
• Able to lead, challenge and empower staff, parents and children?
• An excellent role model and effective at motivating and supporting a team?
An ability or willingness to drive a minibus would be welcome. Subject expertise in music, PE or geography could be useful, but certainly not essential. We are an IT-heavy school and confidence with IT would be essential.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone seeking a headship within the next five years. The two previous holders of this post have both secured Leeds headships. This is a rewarding place to work.
Farsley Farfield Primary School is a large, popular, consistently ‘good’ school with an intake of 60 and 440 pupils on roll (including up to 52 nursery children), and a Children’s Centre (for now). In 2017, we were awarded the prestigious TES national Healthy School of the Year in recognition of our extensive and ambitious work on food and physical activity.
We are a split-site school on one fabulous green campus. This post is intended to be non class-based, operating on both sites, but there is likely to be some occasional teaching.
We would welcome you to visit our lovely school prior to submitting your application. Please email the school to arrange this. We would also strongly recommend browsing our website and class blogs to get an insight into our school and our ways of working.
Closing date: Friday 9th May at noon
Interview and assessment day: Friday 16th May
Completed application forms are to be emailed directly to office@farsleyfarfield.org.uk. CVs not accepted.
We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.An online search will be completed for all shortlisted candidates. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, satisfactory references and a satisfactory pre-employment health check.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A fabulous mix of children - socio-economically, ethnically and in terms of academic standards - and supportive wider school community
• Well-behaved children who are enthusiastic and excited to learn
• Plenty of space, inside and out, to provide wonderful learning, sporting and recreational opportunities - the best primary school grounds a recent DfE surveyor had ever seen
• Talented, hardworking and imaginative staff who make working together a pleasure
• A commitment to your professional development
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.