Headteacher

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Ideal Candidate

We welcome applications from leaders with a proven track record of impact as a Headteacher, Interim Headteacher, Associate Headteacher or experienced Deputy Headteacher. You should be proactive, innovative, and resilient, with the integrity to lead by example.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• Honours Degree or equivalent.
• PGCE and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH).
• Recent experience as a Headteacher or Deputy Headteacher.
• Evidence of significant Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the last three years.

You will also be

• Passionate about every child’s learning, with a relentless determination to ensure all pupils achieve their full potential.
• Strongly focused on teaching and learning, with a commitment to developing and sustaining high-quality practice.
• Consistent, resilient and aspirational in driving school improvement and raising standards.
• Upholding of our values and embracing our vision of Courage, Commitment and Compassion.
• Committed to collaborative working with our Governing Body.

What the school offers its staff

You will find a supportive, challenging, stable and well-informed board of governors who are deeply committed to the school, who share the ethos we have nurtured of valuing and caring for every student and every member of staff.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.