Salary: £60,145 - £66,368 (L7 – L11), depending on experience
Position Type: Permanent Full-Time
Location: Darwen, Lancashire
Hours: 40 hours per week
Education Group
The Education Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.
We are excited to be advertising for an exceptional Primary and Secondary Special Education school Deputy Head Teacher. This school is based in Darwen with a capacity of 64 students aged between 10 - 19. The student cohort have a diagnosis of ASC/ADHD or SEMH.
We are currently looking for a Deputy Head Teacher to join us in September 2026. The school allows children and young people to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the very best confidence and opportunities to achieve.
The Role
The Role of the Deputy Head Teacher is to support the Head Teacher to provide vision, leadership and direction for the school to the highest professional standard whist maintaining its success and providing a high quality of education which reflects our trusts vision and values
To achieve in this role, you will be someone who inspires creativity and collaboration, a strong leader and a passionate advocate for your students, finding ways to deliver educational outcomes that make a real difference to them.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
Essential:
· Qualified Teacher Status
· Further professional qualification in a relevant area.
· Experience of teaching in a specialist ASD/SEMH Environment.
· Evidence of major whole school responsibilities and experience of turning policy into effective and successful practice.
· Leadership of a significant area or phase or inclusion, including responsibility for raising standards across the whole school.
· Experience of working with and involving school governors/trustees or executives
· Quality assurance experience (such as lesson observations and performance management)
As part of our safer recruitment procedures for senior leadership roles, we will endeavour to complete a range of safeguarding checks prior to interview where possible. These include references, online searches, a Prohibition from Teaching check and a Section 128 direction check.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Education Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please contact Mathure for further information
Salary description
£60145.00 - £66368.00 per year