Deputy Headteacher - Full-time

Pay: Leadership scale - point 5

Start Date: Jan 2021

Are you an authentic person, an outstanding educationalist? Do you understand the needs of Ramsgate children and what it takes to help them succeed?

We want YOU for the role of Deputy Headteacher at Dame Janet, we want someone who wants to make a mark, who has ambition for our children and who understands what it means to achieve excellence; someone who can articulate a clear vision of success to children and adults and someone who can develop our early years provision to build stronger foundations.

Our children deserve the very best so the successful candidate will:

• Be an excellent teacher
• Have successful experience in managing and leading others
• Be an excellent communicator
• Be a team player

The Deputy Headteacher will play a key role in supporting the Head of School and leading on the next stages of development at Dame Janet.

If you are a person who never gives up, who faces adversity with a smile and loves what you do and you share our values of DETERMINATION, JOY, PRIDE and ACHIEVEMENT then we want you to join us.

This is a highly rewarding position and we offer in return:

A commitment to wellbeing and high quality professional development through the Trust and from the school's long term partnership with Blue Edge Training

To find out more about the school and this opportunity call and speak to Mr Sam Atkinson (Executive Headteacher) and if possible please make an appointment to visit (we anticipate that we may be in a position to welcome visits to the school from July).

For application paperwork please contact Mr Daniel More (School Business Manager)

When applying please make reference to the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

Closing date: Monday 28th September 2020

Interviews: Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th October 2020

Safeguarding: TKAT are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will be expected to hold or be willing to obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure for this authority.

Equal Opportunities: TKAT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. All applications are treated on merit.

Information about the school

'Creating Excellence Together'

Welcome to Dame Janet

Serving the children of Ramsgate on two sites, with a thriving forest school and plenty of other outdoor learning opportunities, Dame Janet is a GOOD school really worth finding out more about. Children enjoy a challenging but fun curriculum that prepares them well. From their earliest days to their last in Year Six, the children make good progress and experience imaginative 'hands on' topics that they have helped to shape. Children have travelled through time, been to outer space, explored the wonders of the ancient world and fought off monsters in the guise of superheroes; all the while using a range of technology and experiencing learning in different environments. Dame Janet is a good school for everyone. Our provision and our focus on personal development and welfare is outstanding. Supportive and skilled staff nurture and develop children to find what they are excellent at - whether it's in the classroom, on the sports field, as an artist or as an actor. The whole school is passionately committed to giving pupils a wide range of real-life and enriching experiences and through these the children have gone off to the secondary school of their choice prepared and ready to grow and keep learning.

If you would like to find out more about the school and its work, then please visit or follow us on Facebook or

Mrs Gemma Sherwin (Head of School) Mr Sam Atkinson (Executive Headteacher)

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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