32 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    22 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    12 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher

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Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£72,162 - £83,464

Pay scale

L16 - L22

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a senior leader who:

  • Is excellent at building relationships with pupils, staff and the parent community
  • Able to drive improvement in an already successful school, using a breadth of evidence to identify strengths and areas for development
  • Strikes an effective balance between strategic leadership and the practical application of initiatives on the ground
  • Has a strong understanding of distributed leadership, able to support other leaders to be the best versions of themselves
  • Values collaboration and trust-wide working

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

  • Engaged and motivated pupils who are rightly very proud of their school
  • An excellent staff team of dedicated professionals who are committed to the school and its community
  • An involved and supportive parent community who want the best for their children
  • Excellent support from an effective MAT and collaboration with other trust schools
  • High-quality CPD to develop your leadership

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to HR@bwmat.org

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About St John and St Francis Church School

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
405 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11

St John and St Francis is a vibrant successful school that has made rapid progress in its improvement journey over the past few years. We are now looking for our next leader, someone who can add value and continue to move the school towards excellence.

As a school, we aim to create learners for life who care, understand, respect all and are guided by our core values of friendship, kindness, perseverance, forgiveness, peace and thankfulness. We are inspired by Corinthians 13:7: “Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres.” From this vision and these values, we enable all our children to become the best versions of themselves both academically and personally.

St John and St Francis Church School is part of the highly successful Bath & Wells Multi Academy Trust, which provides plentiful opportunities for collaboration, sharing of good practice and lots of professional development for staff in all roles.

Arranging a visit to St John and St Francis Church School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jo.halley@sjsf.bwmat.org.

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