Deputy Headteacher
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9RE |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d108ae5f-5565-488e-92e4-8ed25d285bd1 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We would like you to bring:
• An outstanding classroom practitioner who is able to lead curriculum development throughout school.
• A caring, hardworking and enthusiastic leader with a positive approach that will inspire all those around you;
• Commitment to foster links with parents and our wider community;
• Desire to work effectively with the school’s governing body.
• Committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of everyone at St Peter’s.
What the school offers its staff
What the school offers its staff:
• We can offer you:
• A safe and happy environment where children enjoy learning;
• A highly motivated, caring and professional group of staff;
• A supportive Headteacher and Governing Body, who are committed to the whole child ethos of the school;
• A commitment to supporting on-going professional development for the benefit of the whole school;
• A vibrant Nursery that acts as a successful feeder to our school.
Further details about the role
Following the retirement of our long standing and highly effective Deputy Headteacher, the Governors at Fulwood St. Peter’s Church of England Primary School are seeking to appoint an inspirational person to join our dedicated team. The successful candidate will support our newly appointed headteacher in our popular and successful Church school family.
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.
We would like you to bring:
• An outstanding classroom practitioner who is able to lead curriculum development throughout school.
• A caring, hardworking and enthusiastic leader with a positive approach that will inspire all those around you;
• Commitment to foster links with parents and our wider community;
• Desire to work effectively with the school’s governing body.
• Committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of everyone at St Peter’s.
What the school offers its staff
What the school offers its staff:
• We can offer you:
• A safe and happy environment where children enjoy learning;
• A highly motivated, caring and professional group of staff;
• A supportive Headteacher and Governing Body, who are committed to the whole child ethos of the school;
• A commitment to supporting on-going professional development for the benefit of the whole school;
• A vibrant Nursery that acts as a successful feeder to our school.
Further details about the role
Following the retirement of our long standing and highly effective Deputy Headteacher, the Governors at Fulwood St. Peter’s Church of England Primary School are seeking to appoint an inspirational person to join our dedicated team. The successful candidate will support our newly appointed headteacher in our popular and successful Church school family.
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.