Head of School
Grove Primary School, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 8RQThis job expired on 4 December 2023
Closing date
4 December 2023 at 5pm
Date listed
15 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £57,482.00 - £63,430.00 Annually (FTE) L9-L13
Head of School job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to join the
senior leadership of our primary school in Carlton Colville, which has shared leadership
with Westwood Primary School.
The Head of School will manage the day-to-day running of the school in
line with the vision created by the Senior Leadership Team, of which they will
be a member, and the Local Governing Body. The Head of School will work with
the Executive Headteacher and other members of the Senior Leadership Team in
providing effective leadership and management of the school.
We are looking for a Head of School who will:
- Have an uncompromising commitment to ensure that each child has a well-rounded education through a creative and challenging curriculum.
- Be an inspirational leader.
- Remain committed to developing each child as an individual who is valued, respected and treated equally.
- Continue to strive for excellence.
- Support and motivate our dynamic and forward-thinking staff by fostering respectful relationships and focusing on their career development and wellbeing.
- Promote inclusion and remove all barriers to education and extracurricular activities.
- Be excited by learning and has a strong commitment to ensuring children’s social, emotional and mental health needs are met.
What we can offer:
- Engaged and creative children.
- Motivated and talented staff with high expectations.
- A child centred ethos that achieves great things.
- An excellent working environment that supports and promotes staff well-being.
- Commitment to ongoing opportunities for training and professional development.
- Strong Trust family who are encouraging and at the heart of all that we do.
- The ability to obtain NPQH delivered by the Active Learning Trust Institute in partnership with Ambition Institute
Visits to the schools are warmly welcomed. To discuss the role further,
or to arrange a visit, please contact Rae Aldous, Executive Headteacher via
email: head@westwoodprimary.org
All applications are to be submitted through My New Term. The Active
Learning Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the advert closing
date. With this in mind, we encourage
you to apply as soon as possible.
Grove Primary School and the Active Learning Trust are committed to
safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people. We
expect all staff to actively share this commitment. All adults working in our
Trust in whatever capacity will be part of a thorough safer recruitment
process. All appointments will be subject pre-employment checks including the
taking of satisfactory references and enhanced criminal record clearance in
line with the need to create and maintain a safe culture.
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.
About Grove Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 336 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Grove Primary School website
School location
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