Deputy Headteacher
Chulmleigh College
Devon
- £73,818 - £83,463 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale L17 – L22
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Ideally required from 22nd April 2025 (or will consider September 2025)
- Apply by:
- 13 January 2025
Job overview
Would you like to join a high performing, ambitious secondary school well known for exemplary behaviour and conduct? Chulmleigh College is a school where teachers focus upon high quality teaching and high standards. The College has enjoyed some of the best results in the region over the last 10 years and is heavily oversubscribed. In 2024 our Progress 8 Figure of +0.81 places us in the top 5% of schools nationally.
Following internal promotion, we are looking to appoint a Deputy Headteacher to work with the Executive Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team to provide the leadership and management which enables Chulmleigh College to give every pupil, high quality education, and which promotes the highest possible standards of achievement. The successful candidate will have a clear vision to build on the achievements of the Trust and make a real impact on the education offered to our pupils in the future.
This is an exciting and key role within our Academy and ideally, we would like the successful candidate to start from 22 April 2025 to enable a full handover. However, we are committed to appointing the very best candidate and will consider a September start date to achieve the right candidate.
We have published a full candidate pack to support our recruitment which offers a full insight into this key role and the future of our Academy and can be found on our website.
Main responsibilities include:
• Working with the Executive Headteacher (Secondary), SLT and Directors to create the strategic vision for the College and promote the vision, values and ethos to pupils, staff, Directors, parents and the wider community
• Working with the Executive Headteacher, Directors and other key stakeholders to maintain a shared vision and future strategic plans which will inspire and motivate pupils, staff, parents and the wider community in the College
• Whole-school timetable
• Data and Assessment
• Leading the Curriculum
• Teaching and Learning
• Line managing the Curriculum Leads
The successful candidate will:
· Have a proven track record as a senior leader in a secondary school,
· Demonstrate whole school impact at curriculum and pastoral levels.
· Lead by example, setting high standards for self and others.
• Demonstrate empathy, resilience, and skills to continue to maintain our ethos, and communicate and share our purpose with energy, commitment, and passion.
The successful candidate will share the values of our Academy:
· Compassion - caring about others and behaving towards them with humanity, generosity, and concern.
· Ambition – to create an environment of challenge and determination to ensure all our pupils aspire to achieve the highest outcomes at, KS3 and KS4, regardless of a pupil’s background or Special Educational Needs.
· Teamwork - teamwork is essential across pupils, teachers and parents to achieve a comprehensive, well-rounded education for all our pupils.
We are delighted to offer prospective candidates the opportunity to visit our school community. Tours of the school guided by our new CEO & Executive Headteacher (from September 2025) will be available on Friday 10th January 2025 from 9.00am to 10.30am. Please email personnel@chulmleigh.devon.sch.uk to request a place – please include the following details: full name, current role and school, telephone contact number and preferred date.
Details of the application process are contained in the Candidate Pack. Completed application forms to be emailed to: personnel@chulmleigh.devon.sch.uk by 10 am on Monday 13th January 2025. Candidates are also welcome to submit an application through the TES website. All applications will be acknowledged.
Closing date: 10 am Monday 13th January 2025 at 10.00am
Interview Date: Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd January 2025
Attached documents
About Chulmleigh College
Chulmleigh College is a successful and ambitious rural secondary school with a strong reputation for high standards. The progress of our pupils is consistently amongst the best in the region.. In 2024 our provisional Progress 8 Figure of +0.81 places us in the top 5% of schools nationally.
The College was totally rebuilt a few years ago, with the completed buildings opening in 2017. Numbers have grown substantially in recent years, from 500 to the current roll of 750, and most year groups are oversubscribed; due to both our excellent reputation and the College’s successful transport service, which brings in approximately 25% of our pupils from outside the school catchment area.
We aim to create ambition and inspiration and want our young people to achieve all that they can in a safe, caring and well-disciplined environment. We commit ourselves to providing a learning experience which ensures high challenge, inspires, and provides both the range of qualifications and the start in life which will last forever. We aim for our young people to have the foundation and independence they need to make the progress they are capable of, building resilience for their future lives.
As a school we value courtesy, hard work and respect, and set high standards of behaviour; promoting self-discipline, resilience, responsibility and working together as a community.
We offer a broad and rich curriculum, enhanced by excellent extra-curricular activities; our outdoor education in the form of Ten Tors and Duke of Edinburgh is particularly strong. As well as having high academic achievement, we also have a proud record in sport, music, drama and art.
Our pupils read an astonishing amount of literature and develop themselves by making the most of the array of opportunities available. This is all possible because teaching and support staff create the best opportunities for our pupils. We are very proud of our team, who work hard to make our school a happy place where we learn together in a formal, warm environment. We are also proud of the excellent relationships we have with our pupils, families and friends within the community.
Chulmleigh is a Saxon hilltop market town in North Devon, near the Mid Devon border. It lies near the banks of the Little River Dart, and is surrounded by rolling hills, woods and farmland. With Exmoor and the North Devon coast to its north, and Dartmoor and the city of Exeter to its south, Chulmleigh is in a beautiful part of the county and is easily accessible from all other areas.
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