Deputy Headteacher-Culture and Ethos
Newquay Tretherras
Cornwall
- £75,675 - £83,464 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale 18-22
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01st September 2025
- Apply by:
- 13 March 2025
Job overview
For September 2025, we are seeking to appoint an inspirational Deputy Headteacher, who will have a whole school responsibility for Culture and Ethos, focusing on ensuring high standards of behaviour, standards and values in our school. You will lead our Assistant Headteachers responsible for Behaviour, for Inclusion and Attendance; our leaders responsible for Personal Development; and ultimately, lead our pastoral system across the school.
The successful candidate will have experience in leading behaviour and attitudes in a Secondary setting, with a proven track record of establishing high standards that lead to excellent outcomes and experiences for all.
The successful candidate will:
- Have ambitiously high standards and expectation for all students
- Know what excellence looks like
- Be resilient and agile
- Have a relentless attention to detail
- Be brave and courageous in expecting more
- Know how to get the most out of young people in a climate of positivity and belief
Newquay Tretherras is a good school and our community deserve it to be an exceptional one.
We have incredible students achieving highly and succeeding in a range of opportunities on the County, South-West, National and even International stage. Our next phase is to ensure this excellence is accessible to all, ensuring all our learners are self-regulated, with a scholarly approach and access to aspirational life choices.
You will need to have leadership credibility, coupled with experience of leading a team to secure excellent outcomes. We are looking for a leader who has a rigorous methodology to implementing strategy, pays real attention to detail and can hold the line that sets our high expectations.
We are looking for someone who understands the importance of radical candour in the meeting space; of someone who has humour and perspective in the workplace; and of someone who has passion and dedication, thriving in the magnitude and importance of what we do as school leaders.
If you are interested in being part of a school on a journey to excellence, assisted by Trust Executive leaders who are generous in their support and in the sharing of their expertise, we'd love to hear from you. This is an exciting time for Newquay Tretherras and we're looking forward to meeting those who want to be a part of it.
If you require further information or would like to discuss the role or arrange a visit of the school please contact: Gemma Harries (Headteacher, Newquay Tretherras) GEH@tretherras.net
Cornwall Education Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check.
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About Newquay Tretherras
WELCOME TO NEWQUAY TRETHERRAS
You will always be guaranteed a warm welcome at Newquay Tretherras, an inspiring and vibrant school at the heart of the Newquay community. Tretherras has a forty year history of providing education of the highest quality in an inspirational setting on the North Cornish coast.
Tretherras students are a pleasure to teach and learn with. They know that a high quality education is important for their life chances and they take full advantage of the incredible range of opportunities and facilities offered to them at school, both within and beyond the classroom.
The Board of Directors, together with the Leadership Team, are committed and ambitious for every single young person. Our talented and specialist staff don’t just go the extra mile, they go the extra hundred miles for the students in their care! We are passionately dedicated to ensuring students succeed in every possible way, whatever their talents or ambitions.
Our relationships and ethos at Tretherras are inclusive and special: we are a family in which everyone matters. It is, without doubt, a very happy place to be and morale is extremely high across the whole academy.
Students are offered a vast array of opportunities at Tretherras to grow and develop into responsible, well rounded individuals. We aim to equip all our young people with the necessary confidence and aspiration to challenge themselves, and us, to achieve the highest standards possible.
At Tretherras, we offer students an inclusive and extensive curriculum which offers aspirational opportunities for all to succeed. To achieve this, we have strong and caring people and structures in place to support students pastorally and academically every step of the way.
Our strong belief is that Tretherras is a place where dreams can come true. We are an inspirational learning community, working together to support our students and staff to become the best that they can be.
As an academy that achieves examination results that are consistently and significantly above national averages, we know it is the quality of our relationships with parents, staff and students and our aspirational and inclusive ethos, which is the key to this success. Quite simply, we put every one of our students at the centre of everything we do.
We look forward to receiving applications from candidates who share our ethos and who want to become part of our Newquay Tretherras 'family' to ensure that our students are inspired, achieve remarkable things and become the best they can possibly be at Tretherras.
Ms G Harries,
Interim Head of School
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