Headteacher
Belle Vale Community Primary School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L25 2QF56 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
12 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L16 - 21
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our new Headteacher will
- Be a highly experienced senior leader, with the vision to identify the next steps on our continued school improvement journey and the energy, drive and skills to lead and realise this.
- Be an inspirational leader able to engage and motivate all stakeholders, and build effective teams.
- Secure the highest educational standards whilst ensuring a culture and practice of care, wellbeing and support for our staff and pupils.
- Strive for excellence in all aspects to ensure that each pupil fulfils their unique potential.
- Respond and adapt effectively to changing circumstances, maintaining high levels of performance and motivation.
- Have the skills to recognise and promote all staff talents, expertise and continuing professional development.
- Inspire the whole community, build and maintain successful teams and work collaboratively with others to achieve success.
- Be committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of children, staff and the wider school community.
- Enjoy working closely with other schools learning from and sharing bestpractice.
- Be an ethical leader to inspire trust, uphold our values, and ensure every child achieves personal success.
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer you:
- Enthusiastic, motivated and happy children who are excited by learning.
- A highly supportive, effective and ambitious Governing Body.
- A dedicated teaching and support team committed to supporting all pupils.
- Ongoing professional development opportunities.
- A school committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of staff and pupils.
- The support from an experienced mentor plus a full training programme during your first year of headship, through SIL’s New Headteacher Programme.
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Belle Vale Community Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 270 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Belle Vale Community Primary School website
- Email address
- bellevale-ao@bellevale.liverpool.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 487 8571
About the School
After a successful two-year period under the leadership of an Executive Headteacher, the Governing Body of Belle Vale Community Primary School is now seeking to appoint a permanent, inspirational, and ambitious Headteacher. We are a happy and inclusive school in the Belle Vale area of Liverpool, with strong partnerships with parents, our local community, and a supportive network of schools. This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and experienced leader to build on our progress and drive forward our ambitious plans for the future.
Belle Vale Community Primary School is embarking on the next stage of its journey, and the Governing Body is seeking to appoint an innovative and motivational Headteacher. We are looking for a leader who is enthusiastic, engaging in their approach, and able to make a positive and lasting impact on pupils’ achievements.
Our philosophy is rooted in the belief that every child should develop a love of life and learning through a curriculum that enables them to achieve personal success. We are a happy and inclusive school in the Belle Vale area of Liverpool, with strong partnerships with parents, our local community, and a supportive network of schools. With a dedicated team of staff committed to providing the highest quality education, this is an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to build on our progress and ensure that all children in our care thrive and achieve their personal best.
The school was graded Good by Ofsted in September 2023: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/104519
School Website:
https://www.bellevaleprimary.co.uk/
Arranging a visit to Belle Vale Community Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bellevale-ao@bellevale.liverpool.sch.uk.
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