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Deputy Headteacher

Job Summary
Contract Type:
Permanent
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
08/01/2025
Advert End Date:
21/01/2025 08:00
Salary:
£77,552 - £85,529 (L19-L23)
Job Category:
Schools - Leadership
Vacancy ID:
274623
Employment Location:
DL3 8AR
Closing date:
21 Jan
Further Information
Hummersknott Academy
Edinburgh Drive, Darlington, DL3 8AR Tel: (01325) 241191
Email: jobapplications@hummersknott.org.uk
Website: www.hummersknott.org.uk

Headteacher: Grant Sowerby

Salary: £77,552 - £85,529 (L19-L23)

Required: September 2025

Hummersknott Academy is seeking to appoint an experienced, impactful and successful senior leader in the role of Deputy Headteacher.

As Deputy Headteacher you will play a key role in shaping the culture and strategic direction of the academy. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside a professional, hardworking and motivated team that are committed to developing and raising standards.


The correct candidate will:

• Have strong student centred values

• Contribute to the positive school community

• Be an excellent classroom practitioner with a proven track record of raising standards and developing a culture of excellence

• Be evidence-informed in their approach to all aspects of school leadership

• Have experience of implementing whole school strategies to raise the attainment and outcomes of all students

• Be a strategic thinker with experience of effectively leading and managing change

• Be a skilled communicator with excellent management and organisational skills

• Be a positive team player who wholeheartedly promotes the values and ethos of the school

• Be unrelentingly ambitious for the school, its pupils and staff


The Academy has an excellent reputation within the local community with strong support from Governors, parents, students and highly motivated staff.

Advance Learning Partnership is a not-for-profit Multi Academy Trust consisting of a mix of primary and secondary academies. All academies within our Trust collaborate as a ‘family of schools’. The Trust as a whole is not a separate body or group of people, but rather one single organisation made up of all our academies with one single vision and shared set of values.


Application:

Further details and application forms are available on the Academy website

Closing date for applications: 8am, 21 January 2025

Provisional interview date: Week commencing 27 January 2025

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and appropriate references.

Successful candidate will be subject to safer recruitment including digital footprint.
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