Deputy Headteacher

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QEGSMAT are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Deputy Headteacher at City of Derby Academy (CODA).  We are proud to serve a very diverse community with over 40 home languages, and over 50% of our students are eligible for the Pupil Premium. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to join a passionate, hardworking and ambitious team of teaching and non-teaching colleagues who, at every level, make a genuine difference to students’ lives, every day. 

The successful candidate will be committed to the realisation of the CODA’s vision of “improving the life chances of all students” through the ‘3Ps’: 

Provide a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum to help students learn the knowledge and skills they need to achieve academic, technical and vocational success. 

Promote a culture of inclusion and equality, high expectations, positive attitudes and behaviours, and supportive relationships. 

Prepare students for life in modern Britain through character and SMSC development, the PSHE/RSE curriculum, CEAIG, and the promotion of British values. 

Moreover, the successful candidate will embody and develop in others our core ‘3Rs’ values of being Respectful, Responsible and Ready to Achieve, which underpin everything we do, every day. 

Our most recent Ofsted inspection report (March 2024) is overwhelmingly positive and recognises the strengths of the school and the continued progress being made. Some highlights are:

• CODA is a school that welcomes and celebrates the diversity of the local community.
• There is a caring ethos. Pupils feel safe. The vast majority are happy.
• The school has high expectations of all pupils.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an additional language are well supported to learn the curriculum.
• Leaders have secured many improvements since the school’s last inspection.
• The curriculum has been strengthened.
• Behaviour is now good.
• Pupils are polite and respectful to each other adults.
• There are strong relationships between staff and pupils.
• Pupils receive high-quality pastoral support. They know that staff are always available to talk to them if they have concerns.
• Leaders consider staff’s well-being and workload.
• Staff overwhelmingly enjoy working at the school. 

The inspection report aligned with the academy’s own self-evaluation, and the inspection team recognised that leaders already have the ‘right’ plans in place to secure the improvements required to achieve “good” overall at the next inspection. 

The successful candidate will be an experienced leader and aspiring Headteacher with a proven track record of school improvement. They will play a vital role, appropriate to their experience and the needs of the academy, in supporting the Headteacher to realise the academy’s improvement plans alongside another Deputy Headteacher who is responsible for behaviour, pastoral care and safeguarding. 

Why work for us?

City of Derby Academy is also a proud member of QEGSMAT. At QEGSMAT we believe and promote that an exceptional workforce creates exceptional results; they transform lives and transform futures. We support every student to achieve their full potential and become a confident, resilient, and compassionate individual who can make a positive contribution to society. 

• At QEGSMAT, we value the hard work and dedication of our team members, and as such we believe that progression should be a simple process. That’s why we are proud to offer an Automatic Pay Review program, rather than the traditional annual pay and performance review, as part of our comprehensive benefits package.
• Continual access to CPD opportunities. QEGSMAT works with a large number of organisations to develop staff to fulfil their aspirations and potential. We are committed to providing first-rate training and development to all our staff within this evolving Trust. This includes all staff having access to fully funded NPQ courses appropriate to their role.
• We are committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination, and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
• QEGSMAT is a recognised Disability Confident employer.
• All staff have access to our Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential, independent and unbiased information and guidance 24/7. This can also include bespoke counselling sessions for staff if needed.
• All roles are subject to nationally agreed terms and conditions of service.
• Access to the Teacher Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 28.68%.
• Family-friendly policies.
• Access to Flu Vaccines.
• Opportunity to work flexibly.
• Access to 750+ discounts on everyday essentials via our benefit package with Vivup 

QEGSMAT is also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. It is a criminal offence to engage or seek to engage in regulated activity or regulated work with children, if you appear on the DBS barred list.  All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and be eligible to work in the UK. Further information about our commitment to Safeguarding can be found here: https://www.qegsmat.com/documents/safeguarding 

Please be aware, the Trust may also consider performing an online presence check as part of their pre-employment checks. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). 

If you are interested and wish to have an informal conversation to discuss the role or would like to visit the school, we would be happy to arrange this, please call 01332 270450 to arrange this. 

Further details about our school can be found on our website: https://www.cityofderbyacademy.org/ 

To apply for this position, please visit https://qegsmat.face-ed.co.uk/vacancies 

Closing date for applications:         10^th March 2025 at 9am

Interview date:                                  w/c 17^th March 2025

Potential Start date:              TBC