Dorset Council
Deputy Head Teacher - Kingsleigh Primary School
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Deputy Headteacher
Start Date January 2027 or earlier by negotiation
Full Time
Leadership Scale 13-17
Full Time Salary £69,596 to £76,772
This is an exciting opportunity to join Kingsleigh Primary School as our Deputy Headteacher working alongside our existing senior leadership team.
Kingsleigh Primary School is a community where all are welcomed, valued, and heard. Feeling safe and happy are at the heart of what we do to ensure we succeed as lifelong learners. We embrace individual qualities to ensure Kingsleigh is a community ‘where everyone can be great’.
We have 3 core values that underpin the behaviour ethos of our school community and are promoted throughout all areas of life at Kingsleigh and beyond: Belong, Aspire, Respect.
We are looking for an experienced, pragmatic, and enthusiastic Deputy Headteacher to join our experienced team. This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility for day-to-day organisation and school systems so that teachers can teach and pupils can learn. You will be a visible leader who models high expectations, coaches staff, and drives improvement in behaviour, assessment practice, and cover management across the whole school.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is already a Deputy or Assistant Headteacher and is looking to build on their skills and knowledge in a larger primary school environment.
Further Information
Key Responsibilities
- Lead operational systems across the school, including management of the cover diary, staff deployment, and HLTAs to ensure continuity of teaching and learning.
- Lead behaviour strategy and practice: develop, implement, and monitor behaviour systems; coach staff to secure consistently high expectations; analyse behaviour data and act to improve pupil engagement.
- Lead assessment, reporting, and data processes: ensure assessment is valid, proportionate, and used to accelerate pupil progress; oversee data collection cycles, moderation, and reporting to parents and governors.
- Lead attendance monitoring, improvement, and policy implementation.
- Provide senior leadership across the whole primary phase, with proven experience in KS2 delivering high-quality teaching and outcomes.
- Act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL): support safeguarding systems and contribute to case management and staff training as required.
- Line-manage and develop Year Leaders across the primary school, including leading inductions and performance conversations where delegated by the headteacher.
- Be a consistent, visible presence at key points in the day (start/finish, breaktimes), modelling professional conduct and routines.
- Deputise for the Headteacher as required and contribute to strategic planning and whole-school improvement.
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You Will
- Be a qualified teacher status with substantial, successful classroom experience in KS2; experience across the whole primary age-range is highly desirable.
- Have a strong track record of using assessment information to improve pupil progress and close gaps.
- Be confident and effective behaviour management practice that consistently secures good learning.
- Be able to coach, mentor, and develop teaching staff to ensure outstanding outcomes.
- Have an understanding of safeguarding duties and experience working as a DDSL or supporting DSL processes.
- Have the ability to set clear expectations and parameters and to hold others to account for their performance. Have challenging conversations where necessary.
- Have proven leadership experience with operational responsibilities (cover/rostering, behaviour systems, assessment).
- Have excellent interpersonal skills: able to coach staff, communicate with parents, and work with governors.
- Be resilient, organised, and pragmatic — able to make and embed operational decisions quickly.
- Be committed to our school values and to inclusion for all pupils.
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About Us
What we can offer:
- A large, friendly, and enthusiastic staff team where everyone works together and is genuinely proud of what we’ve created.
- A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning where risk-taking is celebrated and where continuous learning is encouraged through professional development opportunities.
- A modern, spacious, purpose-built, and well-resourced learning environment.
- Energetic and enthusiastic children who respond well to the creative curriculum we provide.
If this sounds like the kind of school you would like to work in, we look forward to showing you what we are all about. Please visit our school website (www.kingsleighprimary.co.uk) and our Instagram page, which will give you a good flavour of life at Kingsleigh Primary School. Tours of the school are encouraged and can be arranged by emailing [email protected].
Please complete the attached application form and email it directly to [email protected].
Closing date/time for applications: Midnight Sunday 27th September 2026
Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 7th October 2026
Safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful applicants will have rigorous background checks, including enhanced DBS checks and online search checks.
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