Head Teacher
Hodthorpe Primary School, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 4UT2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
24th February 2025
Closing date
14 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £63,815.00 - £73,819.00 Annually (Actual) The salary quoted is from L11 - L17
Head Teacher job summary
About this Role
Hodthorpe Primary School is a small village school that is inclusive and a happy place to learn. It is situated in Hodthorpe, Worksop. The school prides itself on their ethos of, ‘Working together, challenging each other as one big family’.
Developing Aspiration, Keeping Myself and Others Safe and Emotional Intelligence drive the curriculum to ensure all children receive the quality of education they need to be prepared for a life in Modern Britain.
We are looking for a maternity cover Headteacher that can maintain and build upon the current successes of the school and has the vision, enthusiasm and talent to seek out new opportunities for continuing to drive school improvement forward at Hodthorpe.
Hodthorpe Primary School currently has around 90 children, from EYFS through to Year Six, with varying levels of need and attainment. The school was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in the last inspection in 2023. The school provides a broad and varied curriculum, offering all children rich opportunities to enjoy learning and achieve to the very best of their abilities.
We are looking for a systematic and inspiring candidate, with senior leadership experience to lead the school forwards during the maternity cover. The successful applicant will be a strong leader with the ability to lead a staff group with varied experience and expertise. They will understand the complexities of managing and leading across different key stages, where empowering others and careful delegation is vital for success. As an important role model within the community, they will be an exceptional communicator and have a wide range of interpersonal skills. The temporary headteacher will have a deep understanding of SEND and will act as SENDCo during their tenure. Fundamentally, they will need to demonstrate that they have sound judgement and are committed to putting the children at the heart of all of the decisions they make.
The school is part of the Learners’ Trust, which is a medium-sized MAT comprising of seventeen primary schools, one special school, over three-thousand five-hundred children and spanning the three Local Authority regions of Rotherham, Derbyshire and Derby City. The successful candidate will benefit from one-to-one support by a dedicated Trust Partner. Additionally, they will have access to the wider networks and support structures that the Trust facilitates within schools, across schools and through the strong links it has with external partners, most notably through the Learners First School’s Partnership. Learners’ Trust is best described by the culture in which it seeks to operate:
Mission
We will use collaboration to:
Deliver excellent teaching through effective professional learning communities;
Enrich lives through inspiring curriculum experiences;
Ensure early intervention through equity for all learners and intervening at the earliest possible opportunity.
General principles that underpin our mission are:
safeguarding is a vital and integral part of the Trust’s everyday work. It is of paramount importance in everything that is done and will remain high-profile at all times;
all representatives of the Trust will adopt a nuanced and targeted approach to tackling discrimination, inequality and prejudice wherever it occurs in order to form positive, productive and tolerant connections between people and eradicate hate and ignorance;
every child has the right to the highest quality academic, social, emotional, spiritual and physical education;
high quality intervention will be provided where appropriate to ensure that the learning, welfare and well-being needs of all pupils are met at the earliest opportunity;
the Trust will aim to identify and foster the passions that motivates each child. Fundamentally this means working together so that children enjoy learning and want to go to school.
Culture
Through our behaviours we will be:
Connected (developing positive, well maintained and productive relationships)
Helpful (embracing servant leadership and using initiative to solve problems)
Organised (employing efficient strategies and trusting colleagues to deliver)
Informed (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)
Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)
Effective (retaining only our best elements and seeking continuous improvement)
Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)
General principles that underpin our culture are:
the needs of children will be at the heart of every decision taken and the CHOICES culture will permeate all aspects of our work;
there will be clear structures in place to ensure that the voices of all children, young people and other stakeholders within the Trust are heard and valued.
Strategy
We will:
Bring sensible alignment and create capacity for all schools
Seek continuous improvement through marginal gains
Ensure support is bespoke and responsive to need
Employ and invest in purpose driven, passionate educators
Marginal Gains – The process of continual improvement through constant incremental gains
For more information about how our Trust works please see visit our website: https://thelearnerstrust.org
Please contact Joel Breedon (Trust Partner) if you’d like to book a visit to view the school for yourself. Pre-booking is essential. We look forward to welcoming you.
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 Hodthorpe Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 77 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Hodthorpe Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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