Are you looking to take a key leadership role and make a significant difference in a popular and successful school? A school with an outstanding culture based on high expectations and where strong relationships are founded on trust, clarity and clear routines? Where all members of the school community are supported to achieve success for life and become the very best versions of themselves? Denefield offers this, and much more.

Owing to the school’s expansion we have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to join the school’s Leadership Team. Precise responsibilities will be allocated on appointment, but we are looking for a strong classroom practitioner with extensive middle or senior leadership experience and with the ability to act strategically for the benefit of all groups, including our most vulnerable students.

We offer: 

• A clear, determined and ambitious leadership team and an enthusiastic and expert staff body.
• Committed and aspirational students and a highly supportive parents and carers.
• Quality professional development including training to support further career aspirations.
• Outstanding facilities, including air-conditioned classrooms and offices and professional-standard floodlit sports pitches.
• Onsite parking, a highly subsidised cycle to work scheme and a restaurant-quality canteen.
• Dedicated HR support including a comprehensive employee assistance programme.            

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, then we would love to hear from you.  We welcome visits from prospective candidates. Please email us at DenefieldHR@Denefield.org.uk to arrange a convenient time.

Denefield is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our comprehensive recruitment and selection processes aims to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Successful candidates are subject to rigorous pre-employment checks. All short-listed candidates will be subject to online searches and any successful candidates will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and candidates will be required to submit the names of two referees, one of which must be your most recent employer. CVs will not be accepted.

We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination. 

Completed applications should reach us by 9.00am on Monday 13 April 2026.