Head of School

The Reginald Mitchell Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 1NA

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  22 August 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  21 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £51,402.00 - £55,338.00 Annually (FTE) Subject to 25-26 pay scales

Head of School job summary

Our ideal candidate will be either a Deputy Headteacher or Senior Leader, who is keen to take the next step in their Senior Leadership career. You will have already played a central role in overall school improvement and be able to demonstrate the impact you have made.

The key skills required for this Head of School position will be around the leadership of outstanding teaching and learning, the provision of an inspirational curriculum, the development of staff and ensuring the outstanding relationships we have with our staff, pupils and their families continue to flourish. This is a non-teaching post.

This is the ideal leadership position for someone who wants to lead a school in the comfort of knowing that the strategic leadership of finance and school development will be handled by the Executive Headteacher, providing them with the freedom to take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the school. Alongside this will be the opportunity to develop a partnership with our five other CFLP innovative and experienced Headteachers.

Visits to the school are encouraged. Please make an appointment by contacting the school office.

Closing date for applications: Monday 22nd September 2025 at 9 a.m.

Activities to be held week beginning 29th September 2025

Interviews to be held week beginning Monday 6th October 2025

The Reginald Mitchell Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people / vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

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.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About The Reginald Mitchell Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 194 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Reginald Mitchell Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-reginald-mitchell-primary-school

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