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Co-Headteacher

Larkmead School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1RF

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• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  9 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £59,440.00 - £68,855.40 Annually (Actual) L29 - L35

Co-Headteacher job summary

Larkmead School is seeking to appoint a Co-Headteacher from September.

While the vacant role is designated as 0.6 Headteacher responsibilities, this model is very much a partnership, with the successful candidate working as operational Headteacher alongside strategic responsibilities and leadership.

Co-Headship at Larkmead creates increased higher-level leadership and the capacity to focus on strategic school improvement. This includes:

• Driving deep and sustained development through internal school improvement, working closely with Senior and Middle leaders to ensure support, challenge and progress across the school
• Strategic focus, planning, implementation and review capacity created by two Headteachers
• Greater capacity to improve leadership across Larkmead through coaching and targeted support
• Capacity to engage with research and to visit high performing schools to ensure that Larkmead learns from and emulates the very best
• Strengthening our partnerships with other Cambrian Learning Trust schools, with Larkmead playing a leading role in secondary effectiveness across the Trust
• Further developing other partnerships, including OX14 Partnership, primary schools who may join CLT, community groups and local employers to support opportunities for our students and embed Larkmead’s central role in our Abingdon community

The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

Cambrian Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism; all staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of their job role.

Commitment to safeguarding

At Larkmead safeguarding and student welfare is of paramount importance and to that end we will always put the physical and mental wellbeing of students first.

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About Larkmead School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 917 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Larkmead School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/larkmead-school-abingdon

Larkmead is a happy, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice. Great teaching and learning across the school are supported by our culture of research and collaboration. Each student gets the very best experience to enable them to achieve their ambitions. Our pastoral care provides compassion, security and confidence, nurturing students to be happy, to develop and to thrive. The Larkmead Promise sets out our vision, ethos and ambitions for students and staff.

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