Head Teacher

Lawn Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 2QR

32 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2026

• Closing date

  9 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 78,702.00 - 91,158.00

Head Teacher job summary

Head Teacher – Lawn Primary School

Required for April 2026

NOR: 430 + (Group 3)

Leadership Points 18 – 24 (£78,702 - £91,158 FTE per annum)

Lawn Primary School, a member school of Transform Trust, is seeking a dynamic and ambitious leader who can inspire and drive our school forward on the next stage of its journey. We’re proud of our school where children are at the heart of all we do. Our standards are high, we’re Ofsted “Outstanding”, our staff team are experienced and skilled. Our parents, Governors and community are engaged and committed. However, there is still much more we can achieve and as our new Headteacher you will bring strength through strategic thinking, vision, and proven school improvement leadership.  Sitting on the outskirts of Derby City, our school offers children a caring and encouraging place to learn and excel in all aspects of their lives.

If you have the vision, motivation and desire to build on what we have achieved alongside driving forward change to support continuous improvement in our school, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a headteacher who will:

• Be an ambitious and inspirational leader, able to motivate and empower staff and children to achieve their full potential.
• Have ambition for all children to achieve the highest standards
• Be committed to children enjoying and engaged in their learning whilst being challenged
• Have experience of leading people, developing their expertise and holding to account
• Have proven senior leadership experience within a primary school.
• Lead with honesty and integrity.

·       Communicate confidently with all members of the school community

·       Be future focussed, striving for improvement.

We offer:

• The opportunity to be innovative in supporting school improvement and to continue to make a real difference to the lives of our pupils.
• A large, well-attended school and site where further opportunities are definitely possible.
• Being part of a fast growing, well respected and highly effective Multi Academy Trust, that embraces each individual member schools’ identity and staff groups.
• A happy, supportive and inclusive school community led by a senior leadership team committed to maintaining the wellbeing of its children and adults
• Respectful, well-behaved children who care for one another and have high aspirations.
• The opportunity to become an ambassador for our school whilst enhancing your skills.

Being part of Transform Trust means that you will have access to the following:

·       Peer to peer networking, collaboration, challenge and support

·       The security of working in a climate of shared accountability

·       Investment in your professional development and future career

·       Opportunities to contribute to the development of a growing organisation and

·       Access to a range of core services that enable you to focus on leading, teaching and learning.

How to apply:

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website https://recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Trust/transformtrust

Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Closing date: Friday 9th January at 9 am. Shortlisting on Tuesday 13th January 2026

Interviews: Friday 23rd January 2026.

For an informal discussion please contact Rebecca Meredith, CEO using the following email: pa.ceo@transformtrust.co.uk

The Governing Body of Lawn Primary and Transform Trust would wish for all prospective applicants to visit school as part of the application process. Please ensure before you apply that you have visited the school before submitting an application.

Should you wish to arrange a visit to the school please contact the HR team at Transform on hradmin@transformtrust.co.uk

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 Lawn Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 435 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lawn Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lawn-primary-school-derby

We have a very talented and committed teaching and support staff team who offer the children many different ways to excel and achieve. The school curriculum is differentiated to provide challenge for our more able pupils and support for those with any special educational needs. We have an extensive range of extra-curricular activities that provide an extra dimension to the opportunities for learning. We are continually developing our technological facilities to ensure that all of our pupils can access and benefit from the digital learning environment.

Our mission statement “DREAM, BELIEVE, ACHIEVE” reflects our understanding and beliefs. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school. This leads to a consistently high level of pupil achievement, preparing pupils for the challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
Mental health and wellbeing plays a vital role in education and impact on our students’ learning. This academic year the school is committed to working towards the School Mental Health Award. This is supported by the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University who say:
“The Department for Education recognises the direct link between positive mental health in schools and successful educational outcomes; the Mental Health Award for Schools builds on this link and provides a framework for educational institutions to evidence policies and initiatives that work towards improving emotional health and wellbeing for both staff and pupils.”

for more information about our school please check out our website http://www.lawn.derby.sch.uk/

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Derby and Derbyshire and Derby