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Salary: £72,062 - £77,461 (Academy Leadership Scale 14-17)Actual Starting Salary £72,062 with annual performance-based increments.
Position Available: September 2025
Closing Date: Midday Monday 28thApril 2025
Interviews: W/C 5thMay 2025
Due to our continued growth in student numbers, we are seeking to appoint a Deputy Headteacher to join our Senior Leadership Team.
The Deputy Headteacher (Pastoral, Personal Development and Safeguarding) is a cross-academy role. The successful candidate will lead on Pastoral, Safeguarding and Personal Development strategies across both the Basildon Upper and Basildon Lower Academies.
The successful candidate will work across the trust, reporting directly to the Trust Headteacher, providing professional leadership and management capacity across our schools.
This exciting opportunity offers the successful candidate scope to lead and drive strategies that support both our schoolsto achieve their targets and strategic aims for pastoral care, behaviour for learning, safeguarding, and personal development.
Additionally, the role will allow you to forge constructive relationships beyond the trust, working in partnership with the local community, external providers, and agencies.
If you have vision, driveand a desire to demonstrate your impact as a leader, we would welcome you joiningour team.
This is an outstanding career opportunity for the right person. You will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution across our schools, whilst gaining skills and experience which will prove invaluable to those with aspirations for Headship.
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please download and complete ourapplication form, and on a separate document please demonstrate how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the Key Responsibilities criteria on the job description (1500 words maximum). Please return both documentsto our Recruitment & Cover Coordinator, Olivia Faustino -recruitment@basildonacademies.org.uk
The Basildon Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to DBS and health checks.
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications or are able to fill the position faster than originally anticipated.
Tours of the academy can be facilitated prior to application upon request.
Information about the School
The Basildon Academies is focused upon developing the whole child; our curriculum has been developed to enable our students to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills so that they will become lifelong learners. This includes opportunities for linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technical, human, social, physical and artistic learning so that students make progress in a wide range of subjects.
We set high expectations of all our students and this, in turn, ensures we create a positive climate for learning in which every student can reach their full potential. Our Academy is a calm, orderly and purposeful environment where students enjoy their learning, make good progress and feel safe.
Our Sixth Form is a major part of the academy with the structure modelling itself on developing independent learning skills like those seen in universities which allows students to continue their studies in their specialist subject areas. Students are very much encouraged to become mature adults being engaged in many aspects of the life of the academy which further develops those much needed skills to go on into university or the world of work.