Deputy Headteacher– Brocklewood Primary School
Required for September 2025 – secondment for maximum 1 academic year. Transform Trust employees only.
As this opportunity is temporary and offered on a secondment basis, please ensure you have the support of your Headteacher before expressing an interest.
NOR: 430 + (Group 3)
Leadership Points 13 – 17 (£66,919 - £73,819 FTE per annum)
Our well-respected Deputy Headteacher at Brocklewood is retiring and following a new change to structure that will now incorporate a Head of School and share an Executive Leader with Rosslyn Park, this is a fantastic opportunity for aspiring or existing Deputies to develop their leadership skills and make a difference.
As a Deputy working within this new leadership structure, you will be able to impact significantly on embedding the changes to structure, help build what works really well and has impact at Brocklewood whilst also playing a key role in developing improvements where needed. You will be passionate about excellence in teaching and learning with a keenness to continue our belief that everyone (children and adults) should be supported and developed to “Be at their Best” in order to achieve their potential.
We are proud to be a Music Hub School, an Artsmark Gold school, forest school and have recently been a Voice21 Hub School for our work on oracy. PE and Sport is also a strength having achieved School Games Gold status for the past three years. We are also fortunate to have a strong and dedicated Governing Body.
If you lead with integrity, are empathetic and can motivate all within the school community we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for a Deputy Headteacher who will:
- Be an ambitious and inspirational leader, able to motivate and empower staff and children to achieve their full potential.
- Have ambition for all children to achieve the highest standards
- Be committed to children enjoying and engaging in their learning whilst being challenged
- Be an excellent teacher with the ability to secure excellence in teaching throughout the school
- Have experience of leading people, developing their expertise and holding to account
- Have a commitment to inclusion and equity.
- Lead with honesty and integrity.
· . Communicate confidently with all members of the school community
We offer:
- The opportunity to be part of a new leadership structure working alongside a Head of School and Executive Leader.
- The option to work collaboratively with Rosslyn Park and share best practice.
- The opportunity to be innovative in supporting school improvement and to continue to make a real difference to the lives of our pupils.
- Being part of a fast growing, well respected and highly effective Multi Academy Trust, that embraces each individual member schools’ identity and staff groups.
- Opportunities to collaborate with schools and practitioners across the Trust sharing best practice and resources
- A dedicated pastoral team of DSLs, behaviour mentor, learning mentor, school counsellor and school dog to support wellbeing
- Wellbeing support for colleagues through our “Care Team” of volunteers led by our School Counsellor
- Access to Exceptional CPD through our Transform Applied offer
- Support and challenge through a variety of partnerships, networks and relationships within the Trust
Being part of Transform Trust means that you will have access to the following:
· Peer to peer networking, collaboration, challenge and support
· The security of working in a climate of shared accountability
· Investment in your professional development and future career
· Opportunities to contribute to the development of a growing organisation and
· Access to a range of core services that enable you to focus on leading, teaching and learning.
How to apply:
Equality and diversity matter 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 provide a letter of application which demonstrates impact and meets the essential criteria of the person specification. Letters should ideally be no more than 3 sides of A4. Letters should be emailed to rachel.hannon@transformtrust.co.uk by the closing date below.
Closing date: 24th July 2025 at 9 am.
Interviews: Start of 2025/2026 academic year.
For an informal discussion please contact – Val Oliver at valeria.oliver@rosslyn.nottingham.sch.uk; or Scott Mason at scott.mason@rosslyn.nottingham.sch.uk or call 0115 915 3266
Safeguarding
Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education.
All school roles are classed as regulated activity and as such, it is an offence to apply to for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.