Head Teacher - Kings James School
King James's School, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 8EB32 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
14 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L33 £97,256 – L39 £112,601
Additional allowances
Up to £8k relocation support
What skills and experience we're looking for
About You:
The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate a proven record of success working with secondary age children, have recent and substantial school leadership experience, either as an existing Headteacher, Assistant Head or Deputy Head, and be committed to providing the children with ahigh-qualityeducation and environment.You must exhibit confidence, empathy and a clear focus on continuing to build a healthy workplace culture to benefit the wellbeing of staff and pupils.
In addition, you will:
- Be a resilient and credible leader with a strong moral compass, able to inspire confidence during times of change.
- Hold deep understanding of school improvement, especially in relation to curriculum, behaviour, attendance, and outcomes for disadvantaged students.
- Have strong financial acumen and experience of leading structural or organisational change.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and bring people with them.
- Experience of leading a large secondary school, ideally within a federation or trust model.
- Strategic vision, coupled with a practical ability to deliver improvement and manage complexity.
What the school offers its staff
Our Opportunity:
King James’s School is part of a Federation with Boroughbridge High School which was formally established in January 2021. Formation of the Federation was the culmination of a period of over four years during which the two schools had worked increasingly closely. The partnership between the schools has enabled richer CPD through joint events, along with sharing of learning and expertise across the staff teams.
Our school is situated in the stunning market town of Knaresborough. The town is well connected to the A1 corridor and with easy reach of the Harrogate, York and Leeds.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a large, successful, oversubscribed North Yorkshire school. You will have the opportunity to develop and implement effective strategies, and provide settled, visible and values-led leadership to unite and energise staff, students and families alike. With a meticulous eye for detail, you must be able to support the diverse needs of pupils and staff to secure consistent outcomes for all pupils, whilst maintaining the ability to balance budgetary constraints.
We can offer you:
- An excellent opportunity to provide strategic leadership and direction whilst building upon the high standards already in place.
- An opportunity to see the huge potential that exists and the time to make our school outstanding in secondary education.
- A happy, caring and supportive school, with well-behaved children who respect each other and have a thirst for learning.
- A Governing Body that is committed to providing support on all matters, including more sensitive or difficult issues - this includes the wellbeing of all staff members – and who are experienced, committed and passionate about our school and ensuring our children reach their potential.
- Support from the Governing Board, our dedicated staff team, the Boroughbridge High School Headteacher and from theYorkshire Schools Alliance.
- An ambitious curriculum, which aims to give every pupil a love for learning and enriching opportunities.
- A range of staff benefits, including discounts across major UK brands, childcare vouchers, wellbeing initiatives, free on-site parking, salary sacrifice schemes, and access to Health Assured employee assistance programme.
- If you feel ready to be our next Headteacher and you can bring your experience, enthusiasm, commitment and energy to deliver our vision of excellence for our passionate pupils and motivated staff,we would love to hear from you.
Further information about the job
For further information on this exciting opportunity, please visit our dedicated recruitment microsite: https://nyresourcing.co.uk/king-james-school-headteacher/
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of young people and expects all members of staff to
share this commitment. This position is subject to an
enhanced DBS check and approved references.
Applying for the job
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About King James's School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1522 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King James's School website
- Email address
- nyes.resourcing@northyorks.gov.uk
- Phone number
- 01609 532254
It is a comprehensive school and our students reflect the full range that you would find in any area. Although some pupils need more support, most of our students come to school eager to learn and to contribute to their school community. The local community is supportive of the school, the catchment area is well defined and we have excellent relationships with parents who choose to send their children here. There is pressure for places from beyond our catchment area. Knaresborough and North Yorkshire isn’t just a great place to teach, it’s a great place to live.
The extra-curricular life of the school is rich, most staff who work here make the most of it; there really is a vibrancy here that is difficult to match. We have a committed staff (teaching and non-teaching) who go the extra mile. Almost without exception, teachers go above and beyond the core delivery of lessons to enhance the enrichment opportunities for the students.
The ethos here is one of the strengths. Even though we have a charter going back to 1616 we are a very forward-facing school with an open and friendly ethos. We are highly inclusive, and we have a strong reputation for delivering outstanding care and outcomes for students with SEND alongside an enviable output to top university courses from our high-performing A level students. Our A level results place us in the top 20% of providers nationally consistently, year on year
Arranging a visit to King James's School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email nyes.resourcing@northyorks.gov.uk.
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