Deputy Headteacher
St Joseph’s Specialist Trust
Cranleigh, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- £Competitive to attract the right applicant + Relocation Support
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2024 or sooner/later by negotiation
- Apply by:
- 18 September 2023
Job overview
This Extraordinary achieving school is looking for an Inspirational Deputy Headteacher.
If you can answer YES to ALL of the following, we would love to speak with you:
1. Are you a practising Catholic? - or can you recommend someone who is!
2. Are you a proven leader within a School or Department (currently managing a team)?
3. Are you being called to make a life-long difference in young people’s lives?
This is a Deputy Headteacher position with a difference. Set within 22 acres in the beautiful Surrey countryside near the historic City of Guildford, you will help manage a dedicated team of c85 staff supporting over 70 learners aged from 5 – 19 years (currently drawn from 20 LAs) with moderate, complex and severe learning difficulties.
As an ambitious teacher (from either the mainstream or specialist primary or secondary schools sector) you will help oversee an outstanding range of facilities, with teaching, specialist support, chaplaincy and care from a dedicated team of professionals who are nationally recognised for their unrivalled expertise and creative talent.
A wonderfully talented team to join, lead and learn from.
SEN experience whilst welcome is not a pre-requisite. Having the heart and the will to succeed, however, is.
Closing date: Monday 18 September at 12 Noon
Interviews: Monday 2 October
Is this position of interest? Or do you know someone else who might be right for the role? If the answer is yes, please contact Liam Dowds our Emmaus Leadership Advising Consultant who is assisting us with this assignment on 01737 652 043 or ldowds@emmausleadership.me to discuss further.
All conversations will be held in the strictest confidence.
Our school is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. DBS check required.
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About St Joseph’s Specialist Trust
St Joseph’s Specialist Trust is an independent non-maintained specialist school and college (Ofsted Outstanding), registered children’s home with a local adult supported living house nearby, located in Cranleigh, Surrey, midway between Guildford and Horsham, in the Surrey Hills. The St Joseph’s community consists of approximately seventy students at the school and college, seven tenants resident at the Supported Living House who are supported by almost 250 staff.
We cater for young people aged 5 – 19 with complex and severe learning difficulties, many of whom are on the Autistic Spectrum, and other associated difficulties. Our provision uses an embedded therapies approach and focuses on access to the community for all, irrespective of their challenges. We are a Catholic provision with Christian principles at our core; welcoming students and staff of all faiths and of none.
Please visit our website for more details about the Trust
St Joseph’s Specialist Trust (st-josephscranleigh.surrey.sch.uk)
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