Depute Headteacher

Overview

Proposed Interview Date : 7 and 28 October 2025

Closing Date : Sunday 28 September 2025

Contract Type : Permanent

Salary : £68,892

Working Pattern : 35 hours per week

Location : Benarty Primary School

Purpose and Values of Education Directorate

The Education Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values : Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.

Support and Application Instructions

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide a Supporting Statement outlining how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resume’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk / jobs / supportingstatement

Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement :

• Ways in which you have modelled and promoted the GTCS Professional Values (social justice, trust, respect and integrity) and Professional Commitment in your current and previous roles. (Consider equity of opportunity, building trust and respect, and how your professional learning underpins your leadership and development of others.)
• How you have demonstrated knowledge, skills and understanding in contributing to leadership of strategic change. (Consider improvements in curriculum and pedagogy, collaboration and leadership at all levels, and shared leadership of the school’s vision, values and aims.)
• Ways you have supported and sustained colleagues in creating a positive environment for all learners. (Inspire high expectations, inclusive environments, and learner participation in planning and decision making.)
• Ways you have built and developed approaches to increase and promote positive partnerships.
• Ways you have used self-evaluation to inform decisions and improvements across a school community.

Job Details

We are looking for a highly-skilled school leader who is passionate about improving life chances for all through a professional commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positive outcomes for our children and young people. As a depute headteacher in Fife you will be responsible for supporting the headteacher by contributing to the strategic vision for the school, working with a wide range of stakeholders to implement and pursue the objectives set in policies, and for contributing to the development of a self-improving system across the education community and beyond.

Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements

You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of the senior leadership team to lead and manage school improvement, both at strategic and operational levels, to ensure continuous improvement.

You are required to demonstrate a commitment to your own professional learning as a school leader through career-long professional learning activity and to be able to show how this has impacted on your practice.

Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.

Full General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) registration. For posts within Primary you are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in Primary. For posts within Secondary you are required to be fully registered with the GTCS in Secondary for the specific subject. You are required to model all behaviour expected of a teacher in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards. Full registration is required for all Permanent posts; for temporary class teacher posts, provisional GTCS registration in the relevant sector will be considered. Candidates holding GTCS registration in Further Education must also hold Primary or Secondary registration to meet the essential criteria as determined by Fife Council. For teaching specific subjects you must be fully registered with GTCS to teach those subjects.

Further Information

For Further Information Contact : Helen Adam - Helen.Adam@fife.gov.uk

We are holding a Fife Council jobs fair on Wednesday 8th October from 10am - 2pm at the Glen Pavilion in Dunfermline. This is a great opportunity to meet face to face with Hiring Managers and learn more about vacancies and what it's like to work in local government. There will also be a chance to get support from our job clubs and employability teams who can offer help with our online application process. Please join us on the day to learn more.

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