Deputy Headteacher - Full-time

West Borough Primary School, Maidstone

• Ref:KCC886-2653-181L
• Posted:14/11/2025
• Pay:Leadership Scale £58,569 - £64,691
• Start Date:ASAP
• App Close Date:10/12/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:Monday 15th December

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We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced school leader, with a track record of outstanding classroom practice, to join our leadership team.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and forward-thinking individual, who will take the lead in developing our curriculum and embedding high quality teaching and learning.

Working closely with the Headteacher, you will play a pivotal role in leading the strategic direction of the school, ensuring every pupil, regardless of need, achieves their full potential. You will champion a culture of ambition, collaboration, and compassion, while fostering high-quality teaching and adaptive learning.

The successful candidate will:

· Be an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of impact in a primary setting.

· Be an outstanding classroom practitioner, who is able to inspire others.

· Show excellence in curriculum design, pedagogy, and assessment, ensuring all learners thrive.

· Be an inspirational communicator who models ambition, empathy, and integrity.

· Be dynamic and forward-thinking, able to co-ordinate and lead curriculum change and implementation,  recognising that a curriculum is constantly evolving.

· Be a confident communicator, able to lead and motivate colleagues with honesty, care and compassion.

· Have the ability to coach, develop, and empower others, building a reflective and high-performing team.

· Build effective relationships with stakeholders across the whole school community.

  Visits to the school are enocouraged and can be made by contacting the school office on       01622 726391.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff, volunteers and Governors to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Information about the school

We are very proud of our wonderful school which was judged as good with outstanding features. Our most recent Ofsted inspection was in October 2022.

We have 15 classes including our maintained Nursery. A set of Core Values underpin all that we do which ensure high expectations of both learning and behaviour. They are; Equality, Responsibility, Respect, Resilience and Challenge. Our inclusive school is based on a large, well resourced site just outside Maidstone town centre. Our excellent facilities include a library and extensive outdoor learning areas.

We have recently achieved our National Nurturing Award Accreditation and also hold the OPAL Platinum Award.

Our school has a happy and caring ethos and is is full of well motivated children, supported by a hardworking and fully committed team of staff and governors.

West Borough Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants for this post will be subject to a DBS check and successful references prior to a start date. Please read the school's Child Protection Policy which can be found in the documents below.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Mrs Gemma Jury-Sofi
• Address:Greenway, Off Queens Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 8TL
• Telephone: 01622726391
• Email: office@west-borough.kent.sch.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Job Description
• Child Protection Policy