17 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    16 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    28 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£51,151.00 - £56,320.00 Annually (Actual) L1 to L5

Assistant Headteacher (One year secondment) job summary

We are looking for an Assistant Headteacher to join our team at Larkspur Primary School on a one-year secondment.

Larkspur is a warm and welcoming nursery and primary school in Ware. Our community works together to ensure that children thrive during their years with us and grow into happy, confident individuals with a love of learning that will last a lifetime. Larkspur children take pride in their work and enjoy the extracurricular opportunities on offer.

Larkspur is part of Ivy Learning Trust, a family of schools dedicated to giving children a great education.

The Assistant Headteacher will support the Head of School in:

  • Communicating the school’s vision compellingly and supporting the
  • Head of School’s strategic leadership.
  • The day-to-day management of the school.
  • Formulating the aims and objectives of the school.
  • Establishing policies for achieving these aims and objectives.
  • Managing staff and resources to that end.
  • Monitoring progress towards the achievement of the school’s aims and objectives.

The Assistant Headteacher will also have a timetabled teaching commitment of 50%, complying with the Teachers Standards and

modelling best practice to others.

Ivy Learning Trust is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales with company number 10874173. The registered office is at Ivy Cottage, Rosemary Avenue, Enfield, EN2 0SP

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Larkspur Academy

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
109 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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Ivy Learning Trust is a small, inclusive family of community schools based in North London and Hertfordshire.



We believe in a fair and just society. That is why we offer the very best education to all our children

In all our schools our learning culture creates reflective and resilient pupils who love, and take ownership of their learning.

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