Head of School (One year secondment)
Larkspur Academy, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 7LP18 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
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Dependant upon experience
Head of School (One year secondment) job summary
We are looking for a Head of School 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.
The Head of School will be responsible for the performance, leadership and management of Larkspur, a friendly and nurturing school in Ware, Hertfordshire.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Leadership and management of the school
- Manage senior and middle leaders, developing a professional culture among all staff at the school.
- Support and challenge staff, dealing with underperformance effectively while making sure staff are given the support to do their jobs well.
- Manage the school’s budget and resources alongside the Executive Headteacher.
- Implement Ivy’s appraisal policy and other management processes and systems alongside the Executive Headteacher.
- Support the implementation of Trust-level policies / school-level procedures.
- Undertake self-evaluation and school improvement planning, alongside the Trust-wide strategy, to improve areas of weakness in the school, alongside the Executive Headteacher.
- Support the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff where necessary.
- Provide training and continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities for all school staff.
- Identify areas of progression and promotion for staff that support succession planning for the school.
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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