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We are looking for a Deputy Headteacher who will join our established team and build on our success as an amazing and thriving school. Lancaster currently has 130 students on roll and is engaging in a building project that will result in the roll increasing to 160 by September 2026.
Our new Deputy Headteacher must have enthusiasm, passion and commitment and be an outstanding teacher for children who have severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties. They must be ambitious both for the school and for themselves. They will be expected to have prior successful leadership experience, to be able to inspire others, to lead colleagues by example and to take on organisational and strategic roles in the running of the school.
Visits to the school are strongly encouraged. For more information, please visit the school's website or contact the Headteacher, Tom Jackson-Owens, on 01702 342 543 or email tjackson-owens@lancaster.southend.sch.uk.
Closing date: Friday 16 May 2025
Interviews: Week commencing Monday 19 May 2025 (Date TBC).
Information about the School
Lancaster School is an Academy special school for up to 100 students aged 14-19 with a range of complex needs: severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), neurological impairments, complex physical and medical difficulties, alongside students with moderate learning difficulties, who may need additional social and emotional support before transferring to local colleges at post-19.
Lancaster School is part of the SEN Trust Southend which opened as a formal partnership on 1 September 2017. The four special schools, The St. Christopher School, Kingsdown School, Lancaster School and St. Nicholas School have always worked closely together to create a strong group of special schools which aim to meet the majority of needs of those pupils who require specialist support in a specialist educational school with Southend. We created the Multi-Academy Trust to help us continue this work.