Co-Headteacher
Bearbrook Combined School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 7QP14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
2 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Scale – dependent on experience
Co-Headteacher job summary
About this Role
The ideal candidate will value positive relationships with pupils, staff and the wider community. We are committed to fostering leadership growth and professional development, providing you with the tools and mentorship necessary to succeed in this exciting position. As a co-headteacher, you will have the opportunity to lead on key decisions and contribute meaningfully to the school's future direction.
Job Purpose:
To work in collaboration with the Co-Headtacher to lead, develop and manage the school effectively and efficiently, providing clear vision and positive, incisive and purposeful leadership and educational direction. The role offers the chance to lead in a supportive and forward-thinking environment, where innovation and collaboration are highly valued.
To ensure the highest possible quality of education, range of educational opportunities and standards of progress and attainment for all pupils in this diverse school.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic direction and development of the school:
Reporting to the CEO, work with the Co-Headteacher, Local Governing Board and the Trustee Board to provide vision, leadership and a clear strategic direction for the school
Formulate the overall aims and objectives of the school and policies and programmes for their implementation
Produce, monitor and evaluate the school improvement plan, underpinned by sound financial planning, which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring that pupils achieve high standards and make progress, increasing teachers’ effectiveness and securing school improvement
Securing the commitment of staff, pupils, parents and the wider community to the vision and direction of the school, in which everyone is valued
Ensuring that the management, finance, organisation and administration of the school support its vision and aims
Establish a positive ethos of commitment to high achievement and an inspirational learning environment
Ensure safeguarding and protecting children is a core priority of the school’s work, within a culture of vigilance
Create an outward facing school that works with other schools and organisations - in a climate of mutual challenge and support - to champion best practice and secure excellent progress and achievements for all pupils
Teaching and Learning
Demand ambitious standards for all pupils, overcoming disadvantage and advancing equity and equality, instilling a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on pupils’ outcomes
Address areas for improvement identified in the school's Self-Evaluation Framework and School Improvement Plan
Promote and secure at least good teaching, accelerated progress and exemplary behaviour for learning within a strong safeguarding culture
Determine, organise, implement and monitor the curriculum and its assessment in order to identify and act on areas for improvement
Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and standards of learning and achievement of all pupils, including those with special educational needs
Create and maintain meaningful and effective partnerships with parents, carers and the wider community to support and improve pupils’ achievements and personal development
Leading and Managing Staff
Work with the Co-Headteacher, Local Governing Board and the Great Learners Trust to recruit staff of the highest quality
Deploy and manage all teaching and support staff
Distribute leadership throughout the organisation, ensuring that colleagues have distinct roles and responsibilities and hold each other to account for their decision-making
Implement and sustain effective systems for the management of staff performance, incorporating targets for teachers relating to pupils’ achievement
Facilitate and initiate new ideas and encouraging development in the curriculum and technology
Identify emerging talents, coaching current and aspiring school leaders
Hold all staff to account for their professional conduct and practice
Efficient and Effective Deployment of Staff and Resources
Create an ethos within which all staff are motivated and supported to develop their own skills and subject knowledge, and to support each other
Deploy and develop all staff effectively in order to improve the quality of education provided
Set appropriate priorities for expenditure, allocating funds and ensuring effective administration and control
Manage and organise accommodation efficiently and effectively to ensure that it meets the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations
Manage, monitor and review the range, quality, quantity and use of all resources in order to improve the quality of education, improve pupils’ achievements, ensure efficiency and secure value for money
Ensure all staff, volunteers and others that work with children are safe, by following appropriate procedures
Accountability
Working with the Co-Headteacher, provide information, advice and support to the Local Governing Board and the Great Learners Trust to enable them to meet their responsibilities
Create and develop an organisation in which all staff recognise that they are accountable for the success of the school
Present a coherent and accurate account of the school’s performance in a form appropriate to a range of audiences
Ensure parents and pupils are well informed about the curriculum, attainment and progress, and about the contributions that they can make
The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative and may vary over time. Post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and extent of the post and the school
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 Bearbrook Combined School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 431 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bearbrook Combined School website
School location
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