Depute Head Teacher

Main Purpose of the Role

Working within Perth & Kinross Council is more than a job. It's about being part of an organisation that puts people at the heart of all we do and provides opportunities to make a real difference by enhancing every life we touch.

£71,649 (pro rata)

St John's RC Academy, Perth

St John's RC Academy, North Inch Community Campus, Perth, set at the top of Perth's North Inch and overlooking the River Tay, St John's RC Academy is at the heart of the North Inch Community Campus. Our 2-18 all-through school provides education for over twelve hundred children and young people from nursery to S6. The campus is a hub of opportunities for the local community, utilising state of the art sports and cultural facilities, offering a wide range of services for all ages.

St John's RC Academy is looking to recruit a Depute Head Teacher within the primary department of our all-through school. The successful candidate will work as part of Senior Leadership Team with the aim to deliver universal and targeted support for our young people and their families, enabling them to excel within school, achieve their best and transition to positive destinations.

This role will have responsibility for overseeing Nursery and Primary 1.

St John's RC Academy's success is built on respectful relationships, strong partnership working, a culture of self-evaluation for improvement and effective leadership at all levels. The school offers a wide range of excellent learning experiences for children and young people and achievement is significantly improving across the school year‑on‑year.

As a Catholic school, the school's vision and values are rooted in the Gospel. St John's RC Academy is also a Fairtrade School, an Eco‑School and the first all-through school in the UK to achieve UNICEF's Rights Respecting Schools Gold Award. As Depute Head Teacher, the successful candidate will be committed to promoting this vision and these values through their work.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Depute Head Teacher who can work collaboratively within a large team and be an inspiring leader for others. You should have experience of planning, delivering, engaging, and stimulating learning experiences which meet the needs of all learners.

The successful candidate will be an excellent leader, with a track record of forming and developing excellent relationships and collaborative working practices with pupils, parents, and staff. You will have excellent communication skills and have experience of positively engaging learners, families, colleagues, and partners.

The successful candidate will be data literate; will be able to gather and analyse complex data and communicate how this can make improvements across the school.

You will be committed to living out and promoting the Gospel values and our school values of fairness, achievement, respect, and love through being an outstanding role model for others.

Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for this post.

We have a vision of a confident and ambitious Perth and Kinross, to which everyone can contribute and all can share.

Our values and behaviours influence our work and support us in the delivery of our key priorities. In your application, and should you be invited to interview, you will be asked to describe situations that support the criteria required in the role and which also demonstrate our values and behaviours. Find out more about Perth & Kinross Council and you could soon be joining our team!

• A nationally agreed annual leave entitlement
• Eligibility to join the Scottish Teacher’s Pension Scheme
• Family friendly and positive work/life balance policies such as Flexible Working, Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave and our Wellbeing Framework
• Access to a range of benefits

We recognise there can be benefits to flexible working and where individual jobs allow, we seek to support this. You are encouraged to discuss potential options with the recruiting manager, if this is of interest to you. A healthy work life balance is important to us and we provide…