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Executive Headteacher

Boddington Church of England Primary Academy, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 6DL

54 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  31 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £61,534.00 - £69,596.00 L10-L13

What skills and experience we're looking for

Executive Head teacher over 3 schools in Evolve Church Academy Trust.

Qualified Teacher Status or Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTS or QTLS) (with degree level education or equivalent).

National Professional Qualification for Headship or evidence of other successful post-graduate study (e.g. MA in Education).

At least 4 years of recent senior leadership ( Head of School or Headteacher) experience in a relevant sector school.

Proven excellent and inspirational teaching relevant to sector.

Relevant experience of working with children with a wide range of special needs.

Experience and understanding of managing people, budgets and IT in relation to its effective use in the curriculum.

Knowledge and skills

Leadership and Management

The ability to establish and sustain the school’s ethos and strategic direction in consultation with stakeholders.

To have an up-to-date understanding of national policy, curriculum developments, and statutory and legal frameworks within which schools operate, including the Ofsted Inspection framework and safeguarding practices and procedures.

The ability to lead, motivate and inspire others and manage people to work as individuals and as part of a team. To provide professional leadership, motivate staff, set standards and engender initiative and a common purpose.

The ability to initiate and manage change to meet the school’s strategic objectives.

The ability to lead the development, planning, monitoring and evaluation process.

The ability to manage and plan strategically the use of financial and other resources to achieve the school’s objectives.

The ability to plan, prioritise and delegate responsibilities according to both the long term and day-to-day needs of the school, monitor their implementation and ensure feedback on their effectiveness.

The ability to identify and evaluate data critical to the assessment of the school’s performance and take appropriate action.

The ability to develop positive and respectful relationships across the school community with high expectations of behaviour creating a safe, orderly and inclusive environment.

The ability to create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life

The ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally to a range of audiences.

Management of Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Demonstrate an evidence informed understanding of child development and how children learn.

Demonstrate a thorough evidence informed understanding of teaching, learning and assessment.

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the teaching skills required to achieve high standards and experience of raising pupil attainment and ensuring strong pupil progress.

Demonstrate an ability to monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching, learning and assessment with a demonstrable impact on improving pupils’ outcomes.

Demonstrate a very good knowledge and understanding of how to provide a broad structured, coherent and accessible curriculum, with ambitious expectations for all pupils, including those with SEND, with a good understanding of how to provide the widest range of opportunities to those with SEND though support and adaptation where appropriate to enable them to achieve their full potential.

The proven ability to work in partnership with all families to involve them in the education of their children.

What the school offers its staff

Evolve Church Academy Trust offers a wellbeing programme, beautiful rural settings in all of the schools and friendly efficient staff that are warm and welcoming.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Key Requirements and Accountabilities:

Role Purpose:

To establish and sustain the School’s and Trust ethos and strategic direction together with the governing board and through consultation with the school community

To work with the CEO to establish and oversee systems, processes and policies so the schools can operate effectively

To identify problems and barriers to school effectiveness, and develop strategies for school improvement that are realistic, timely and suited to the schools’ / Trust’s context

To ensure that school improvement strategies are effectively implemented, monitoring progress towards achieving the schools’ / Trust’s aims and objectives

To ensure the protection and safety of pupils and staff through effective approaches to safeguarding

To prioritise and allocate financial resources appropriately, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness and probity in the use of public funds

Personal Qualities

The Executive Headteacher will:

Uphold public trust in school leadership, maintaining high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct, at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to their professional position

Conduct themselves in a manner compatible with their influential position in society by behaving ethically, fulfilling their professional responsibilities and modelling the behaviour of a good citizen

Build positive and respectful relationships across the school community

Serve in the best interests of the schools’ / Trust’s pupils

Take responsibility for their own continued professional development, engaging critically with educational research

School Culture and Behaviour

The Executive Headteacher will work with schools’ to:

Develop and sustain a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life

Uphold ambitious educational standards which prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life

Develop and sustain a culture of professionalism, promoting positive and respectful relationships across the school community and a safe, orderly and inclusive environment

Establish and sustain high expectations of behaviour for all pupils, built upon relationships, rules and routines, which are understood clearly by all staff and pupils and demonstrated by adults within the schools / Trust

Implement consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour communicated to all in the school’s / Trust’s behaviour policy

Teaching, Curriculum and Assessment

The Executive Headteacher will work with the schools’ to:

Establish and sustain high-quality, expert teaching across all subjects and phases, built on an evidence-informed understanding of effective teaching and how pupils learn

Ensure teaching is underpinned by high levels of subject expertise and approaches which respect the distinct nature of subject disciplines or specialist domains

Ensure effective use is made of formative assessment

Ensure a broad, structured and coherent curriculum entitlement which sets out the knowledge, skills and values that will be taught

Establish effective curricular leadership, developing subject leaders with high levels of relevant expertise with access to professional networks and communities

Ensure that all pupils are taught to read through the provision of evidence-informed approaches to reading, particularly the use of systematic synthetic phonics in schools that teach early reading

Ensure valid, reliable and proportionate approaches are used when assessing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum

Ensure the schools / Trust fulfil relevant statutory duties with regard to the SEND code of practice

Ensure the schools / Trust holds ambitious expectations for all pupils with additional and special educational needs and disabilities

Establish and sustain culture and practices that enable pupils with additional and special educational needs and disabilities to access the curriculum and learn effectively

Ensure the schools / Trust works effectively in partnership with parents, carers and professionals, to identify the additional needsand special educational needs and disabilitiesof pupils, providing support and adaptation where appropriate

Managing the school

Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies that enable the schools / Trust to operate effectively and efficiently

Ensure rigorous approaches are used to identify, manage and mitigate risk

Ensure staff are deployed and managed well with due attention paid to workload

Prioritise and allocate financial resources appropriately, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness and probity in the use of public funds

Managing staff Professional Development

Ensure staff have access to high-quality, sustained professional development opportunities, aligned to balance the priorities of whole-school improvement, team and individual needs

Prioritise the professional development of staff, ensuring effective planning, delivery and evaluation which is consistent with the approaches laid out in the standard for teachers’ professional development

Ensure that professional development opportunities draw on expert provision from beyond the school, as well as within it, including nationally recognised career and professional frameworks and programmes to build capacity and support succession planning

Governance, Accountability and Working in Partnership

Commit to working successfully with other schools and organisations in a climate of mutual challenge and support forging constructive relationships beyond the school, working in partnership with parents, carers and the local community

Build and maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues across other public services to improve educational outcomes for all pupils

Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, upholding their obligation to give account and accept responsibility establishing and sustaining professional working relationship with those responsible for governance

Ensure that staff know and understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account

Ensure the schools’ effectively and efficiently operate within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties

Continuous Improvement

The Executive Headteacher will work with schools’ to:

Make use of effective and proportional processes of evaluation to identify and analyse complex or persistent problems and barriers which limit school effectiveness, and identify priority areas for improvement

Develop appropriate evidence-informed strategies for improvement as part of well-targeted plans which are realistic, timely, appropriately sequenced and suited to the schools’ / Trust’s context

Ensure careful and effective implementation of improvement strategies, which lead to sustained schools / Trust improvement over time

The Executive Headteacher may also be required to undertake other reasonable duties as may be requested by the CEO / Trust Board from time to time.

This job description is subject to the general conditions of service for a Headteacher as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document. This job description is based on the Headteachers’ standards 2020.

Please contact our CEO David Rosevear on drosevear@evolvecat.org if you would like to discuss this post further.

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

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Boddington Church of England Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 48 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Boddington Church of England Primary Academy website
• Email address: hking@evolvecat.org
• Phone number: 01295 710500
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/boddington-church-of-england-voluntary-school-daventry

We are a small and friendly primary academy set in a village in the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside. We pride ourselves on putting our pupils at the heart of every decision we make and they will always be our first and most important priority.

Arranging a visit to Boddington Church of England Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hking@evolvecat.org.

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