Deputy Headteacher

Job Title: Deputy Headteacher

Contract Length: Full Time and Permanent

Salary Range: Leadership Scale 22-26 (Dependent on skills and experience)

Accountable to: Headteacher

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional candidate to become Deputy Headteacher of Coloma Convent Girls’ School. We are seeking a Deputy Headteacher who is a practising Catholic in full sacramental communion*, ambitious and dynamic; someone who has the passion to ensure that the school is consistently up to date with contemporary practices and matches our drive to ensure the school provides the best for all students in every area.

The Deputy Headteacher will be an inspirational leader who can bring vision, energy and a proven track record of excellent leadership. We are particularly interested in candidates with significant experience of leading change within teaching and learning teams, and who can ensure the quality of education in our school and our sixth form consistently meets our ambitions. Wellbeing of our young people remain at the forefront of our school and sixth form and the successful DHT being fully committed to this. The successful candidate will be supported to gain experience of leadership across a full range of school improvement opportunities, and they will not be limited to only one area of school life. This will enable them to develop as a confident, versatile and well-rounded senior leader with the capability to deliver at the highest levels of school leadership with Christ at the Centre.

The Coloma experience is so much more than a comprehensive education. For over 150 years we have been driven to challenge our pupils to become successful young women who display compassion and courage both within the school community and beyond. The successful candidate will be committed to establishing a positive and proactive culture that promotes excellence, focusing on collaboration and driving internal excellence, underpinned by Gospel Values.

Being a Deputy Headteacher within the St Oscar Romero Catholic Academy Trust provides opportunities to work collaboratively with other Deputy Headteachers and School Leaders therefore having opportunities to shape the educational landscape across South East London.

The ideal candidate will:

• be a practising Catholic* in full sacramental communion;
• have extensive previous experience of working as part of a Senior Leadership Team;
• have experience of delivering excellent outcomes and leading teaching and learning teams;
• be able to demonstrate success at leading school improvement, raising educational standards and delivering a digital culture and strategy across the school;
• possess the ability to empower staff and include them in the next stages of the school’s journey;
• be an excellent written and verbal communicator;
• align to the mission, vision and values of Coloma Convent Girls’ School and Sixth Form, St Oscar Romero Catholic Academy Trust and the Archdiocese of Southwark.

* A ‘practising Catholic’ is defined as someone who has been sacramentally initiated in to the Catholic Church and who adheres to those substantive life choices which do not impair them from receiving the sacraments of the Church and which will not be in any way detrimental or prejudicial to the religious ethos and character of the school. Inspired by the Gospel and sustained in God’s grace, a practising Catholic will give sincere external expression to their interior faith through specific religious, moral and ethical behaviour which is in accordance with the teaching of Christ and the Catholic Church.

In return we offer:

• opportunities to work within a highly skilled and supportive team;
• a commitment to continue with national pay, terms and conditions;
• access to the generous Teachers Pension Scheme;
• a highly supportive working environment;
• training opportunities to support a continuing leadership journey.

Visits to our beautiful school site in the Shirley Hills are highly encouraged. To arrange an informal conversation with the Headteacher and/or to arrange a tour then

please contact Mrs Vicki Davis, Executive Assistant to the Headteacher, via

recruitment@coloma.co.uk

Further details of this role can be found on TES, Coloma website and RCAOS website

Recruitment Timeline and Key Dates

Closing date for applications: 14th April 2026 @9am

Interview date: 30 April 2026th

Start date: September 2026