Assistant Headteacher (One year secondment)
Larkspur Academy, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 7LP17 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.
CVs are not accepted.
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
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Larkspur Academy website
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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