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**Job Title:

Deputy Headteacher **

**Location:

Napier School, Farnborough**

**Salary:

- Starting from £50,000 per annum**

**Hours:

- 40 hours per week;Monday - Friday**

**Contract:

Permanent, Term Time Only**

Are you a Deputy Head Teacher committed to improving the lives of children and young people?We are looking for an experienced Deputy Head Teacher to join our brand new team at Napier School in Farnborough

**Job Purpose**

To provide a high-quality education service for our students in accordance with Company policies, procedures and practices and the standards set by the Regulatory Body. To work with the Head Teacher, leadership team and other stakeholders to secure highstandards throughout the school.

Key Task Areas and Responsibilities
- To comply with good safeguarding procedures and principles as detailed by the local safeguarding board
- To participate in the process of assessment of referrals
- To act as overall curriculum coordinator and manager across the school
- To act as the lead teacher for the positive support of behaviour that may challenge
- To work as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team which encompasses education, residential care and the clinical team
- To monitor progress and targets to ensure that each individual student can achieve planned outcomes

Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of teaching children and young people with Autistic spectrum condition and/or challenging behaviours
- Relevant experience of teaching children and young people with complex needs
- Experience of managing staff
- Managing budgets effectively and ensuring cost efficiency
- Degree and QTS

**About us**

Napier School is a brand new school, part of Options Autism. Napier School is a secondary school for girls and boys with autism, learning disabilities and/or complex needs. Our school is due to open in September 2023.

For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to children, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approachesthat provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**Why join Options Autism?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.