Depute Headteacher

Job Details

Grade:
DHT-HT PT7

Salary:
£72156 per annum

Hours: 35

Contract Duration:
Temporary Secondment Cover until 17/08/2025

Teachers applying for permanent posts should be fully registered with the General Teaching Council Scotland.

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Role Purpose
Berwickshire High School is a rural state comprehensive, located in the east of the Scottish Borders. We have a student role of around 575 and a staff of around 100.

We have five partner primary schools:
Chirnside, Coldstream, Duns, Greenlaw and Swinton.

We are a hugely ambitious school which sets high standards for everything we do.

This includes the quality of our curriculum, our teaching, the support we offer students, and our expectations for student effort and behaviour.

We aim for best in everything that we do.

As of August 2020, our school is under new leadership. We have moved quickly to address issues identified in the previous year's inspection. As a result, our school is a very different one from what it was then.

We have embarked on a programme of radical transformation, with a clear mission to become one of the best state secondary schools in the country.

In November 2021, the progress we have made to date was recognised by a team of inspectors who visited our school.

You can read about what they said in the 'Inspection' area of this website (found under 'About'). They highlighted 'considerable' improvements across a broad range of areas.

This included recognition of our calm, purposeful learning environment, the quality of teaching, our curriculum, and the support available to students.

Essential
Full Registration with The General Teaching Council for Scotland.
Informal Enquiries
Informal enquiries may be made to Bruce Robertson at

Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve.

We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010.

In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post.

All appointments will be made on merit.

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