Depute Head Teacher - Baljaffray Primary School - EAD10081

East Dunbartonshire Council; Bearsden; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

East Dunbartonshire Council invites applications for the Depute Head Teacher role at Baljaffray Primary School in Bearsden. The successful candidate will work with the Headteacher to provide strategic leadership, shape the school vision and drive improvement priorities to ensure every child reaches their full potential.

The role emphasizes inclusive leadership, strong learning and teaching, and a reflective, forward-thinking approach.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in primary education.
• Strong communication and teamwork.
• Commitment to inclusion and wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across the school.
• Contribute to the school vision, ethos and improvement priorities.
• Ensure every child is achieving their full potential.
• Place relationships, inclusion and wellbeing at the heart of leadership.

Job description

Depute Head Teacher - Baljaffray Primary School - EAD10081

Please note that interviews will be held on Friday, 27th November 2026.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our school community.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, inspirational and highly motivated Depute Headteacher to join the leadership team at Baljaffray Primary School.

Working closely with the Headteacher and wider Baljaffray team, the successful candidate will play a key role in providing strategic leadership across our school. You will contribute to the development of our school vision, ethos and improvement priorities whilst ensuring that every child is achieving their full potential.

We are looking for someone who:

Places relationships, inclusion and wellbeing at the heart of their leadership

Has a strong commitment to, and experience of leading high quality learning, teaching and assessment

Is reflective, forward thinking and committed to continuous improvement

This is DHT salary point 2 subject to job sizing

Charter of Commitment

The commitment by East Dunbartonshire Council to job applicants is as follows:

• Individuals will be treated in a polite, friendly and welcoming manner.
• Equalities monitoring will be conducted to ensure a fair and equitable process with screening being carried out to anonymise sensitive information such as age, gender and disability.
• The information that we receive will be treated in confidence and with discretion. Only the relevant HR representative/team and the relevant service will see the application form.
• We will encourage and welcome applications from applicants under the disability symbol. Where the essential criteria are met an interview will be offered to those applying under the disability symbol.
• We will be pleased to make any reasonable adjustments to ensure accessibility at the interview.
• We will advise you within reasonable time after the closing date if you have not met the interview criteria. (Normally within 4 weeks)
• We will advise you of meeting the criteria for interview normally within 3 weeks.
• We will advise you if you have been successful or unsuccessful at the interview stage as soon as practically possible.

PVG / Disclosure Scotland

The following criteria applies to all roles within East Dunbartonshire Council where PVG/Disclosure checks are essential criteria

Where the post you are applying for is considered a Regulated Role under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020, successful candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to confirmation of employment being made by East Dunbartonshire Council.

Please note, successful candidates will be expected to meet the cost of the relevant check which will be deducted from the successful candidate’s first salary payment. Successful candidates who withdraw their application after the check process has started will be invoiced for the cost of the check.

In specific circumstances the payment could be deducted in instalments from an employee’s wages following commencement of employment. Approval in such circumstances will be made by the HR &OD Manager.

Should an employee leave in advance of the payment being deducted, the full amount will be deducted from the employee’s final salary.

The criteria outlined above will apply to existing employees of East Dunbartonshire Council who apply for roles for which a PVG/Disclosure check is required.