Assistant Headteacher/KS2 Teacher
Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 2FL11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
13 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, Full Time, All Year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £49,781 - £52,301 FTE (Pay Award Pending)
Pay scale
- L1 - L3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Hallwood Park Primary School is seeking an exceptional Assistant Headteacher to help lead our school through the next exciting chapter of its journey.
Now part of the Shaw Education Trust, Hallwood Park is a charming and welcoming small school set in stunning grounds, complete with a pond and allotment. Our children are happy, enthusiastic, and eager to learn - and we are proud of the nurturing, inclusive environment that helps them thrive.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, and driven leader to support the Headteacher in delivering the school’s strategic vision. This is a pivotal role for someone who can inspire staff, drive improvement, and uphold outstanding classroom practice. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of raising standards and leading change with impact.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a close-knit school community, with the backing of a forward-thinking trust. If you are passionate about making a difference and want to play a key role in the next stage of Hallwood Park’s development, we would love to hear from you.
We warmly welcome potential applicants to visit the school. Visits can be accommodated during the week of 2nd - 6th June.Please contact the school office to arrange a convenient time.
Find out more in the full job description and person specification attached.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
Further details about the role
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.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 209 pupils
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery website
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
We are a small and friendly primary school with our own nursery, situated on a large site in a peaceful corner of the Hallwood Park Estate in Runcorn. Visitors to the school often comment on the calm, warm atmosphere around the building and are amazed at how much outdoor space we have! We are always pleased to welcome new pupils and their families and so we hope that you will get in touch if you have moved into the area and are looking for a new school for your child.
Arranging a visit to Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk.
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