Deputy Headteacher

Deputy Head Teacher

Required from September 2025

Full Time – 32.5 hours per week

Permanent

Leadership Scale Point L6 - 10 £56,316 - £62,202

William Booth Primary & Nursery School is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified, enthusiastic, and hard-working Deputy Head Teacher.

We are looking for a leader who is an excellent teaching practitioner with high expectations for pupil progress. 

Located in Sneinton, Nottingham, our school serves a wonderfully diverse community, offering a rich and rewarding experience for both students and staff alike.

You would be joining a team of committed and supportive professionals; the school can offer lots of opportunity to develop and enhance your skills through training and support.

We warmly welcome applications from those who are passionate about making a real difference to the lives of children and thrives on challenging themselves and others to keep on improving. Our working relationships are positive, supportive and forward looking.

You will:

• Have a proven track record in leading others and strategic change
• Take personal and collective responsibility for ensuring that William Booth achieves its strategic plans and objectives
• Support and drive organisational change
• Handle situations and problems with innovation and creativity
• Show respect and positive regard for others. Work effectively with individuals and teams
• Show evidence of clear analytical thinking and get to the heart of complex problems and issues
• Be a consistently good or better primary teacher with secure evidence-based understanding of what makes great teaching.
• Be reflective, enjoy challenge and embrace support.
• Be passionate about teaching and learning and driven by making a difference to every child.
• Care passionately about children and their holistic development whilst still driving forward pupil progress and achievement.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build on and maintain strong relationships with staff, parents and carers, children, governors and the local and wider community.
• Behave consistently with clear personal values that complement those of William Booth

In return we offer:

• A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards.
• Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives
• Calm and purposeful learning environments
• Friendly, polite, well-behaved children who deserve the very best
• Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community
• A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school
• Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office (0115 9155821) to arrange an appointment. We can be flexible to meet your needs.

How to apply

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website https://transformtrust.face-ed.co.uk/vacancies. Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Any questions or queries should be directed to Rachel Lee at William Booth Primary & Nursery School, Notintone Street, Sneinton, Nottingham NG2 4QF Email: Rachel.lee@williambooth.nottingham.sch.uk Telephone: 0115 9155821

Closing date for applications: 09:00 on Wednesday 14^th May 2025

Interviews will be held on: Tuesday 20^th May 2025

Transform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 8300 children in 25 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire. Joining us, you will innovative organisation. We have a strong focus on empowering our member schools to drive their improvement journey whilst maintaining their own individual identity and community focus.

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our purpose is to be an innovative and inclusive Trust working for all children.

We are an employer that encourages flexible working and promotes wellbeing through workload considerations.