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What We Do For You We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the education sector. With us, you’ll get to bring learning to life and make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:
- Training: A full induction and on the job training
- Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays
- Progression: If career development is your thing, most of our head teachers have been promoted from within our group
- Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here
- Pension: we offer a range of pensions to suit your lifestyle needs including Teachers’ Pension and our very attractive TPS alternative
- Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
- Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts
- Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our schools here
- A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £1,000 bonus every time
Bring Your Whole-self To Work Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. You’ll be more than a Deputy Head Teacher, you’ll be able to connect with our pupils because of:
- You’ll need previous teaching experience and have Qualified Teacher Status
- Proven senior leadership experience (ideally 5+ years as part of an SLT)
- Strong SEN experience, ideally within an independent special school setting
- The ability to drive the educational vision and raise standards of teaching and learning
- Confidence acting as the key interface between staff and the Head Teacher, feeding back operational and educational priorities
- Experience or knowledge of residential school environments (desirable but not essential)
- Your drive to raise the quality of teaching and learning
- Your understanding of what good behaviours for learning look like
- Your effective leadership and coaching skills
- Your knowledge of how best to use your interpersonal skills to develop a strong staff team