Headteacher
St Francis CofE Primary School, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4SU4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026 (or earlier by negotiation)
Closing date
4 February 2026 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
6 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- An ISR within the Group 3 Headteacher range
Additional allowances
As well as offering great schools to work in, wonderful children to work with, and fantastic colleagues to work alongside, our Trust is committed to providing colleagues with other benefits that make your employment with Kernow Learning the best it can be. We offer:
A competitive salary and membership of the Teachers' Pension Scheme
A real commitment to wellbeing, including access to 24/7 wellbeing services and employee assistance programme
Access to discounts with national and local retailers and service providers
A range of CPD and training opportunities, both internally and externally, learning from local and national speakers and specialists to support your professional growth
The support and skills of our networks of colleagues both within our schools and our Shared Services teams
Headteacher job summary
Are you our next Headteacher Superhero?
We are looking for an incredible school leader who has the passion, enthusiasm, and drive to lead our school through its next chapter. You will join our Trust and, in particular, our school at a pivotal time; a time to take our school to the next level, ensuring that the foundations are strong from which to flourish.
St Francis CoE Primary School is a 2FE Church school located in Falmouth. Our school’s Christian distinctiveness is central to everything that we do, and we celebrate our wonderful relationship with both our local churches and the wider Diocese of Truro. St Francis Primary is a school that is loved by its community, and our new Headteacher will need to make sure that the community remains at the heart of our school by leading with love.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Kernow Learning is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and follows the Safer Recruitment process. The successful candidate will be expected to share this commitment and will be required to undertake checks including an enhanced disclosure through the DBS process, prohibition, S128, and Social Media/online presence checks.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all.
Unfortunately, Kernow Learning is not a sponsoring organisation for overseas candidates. This means that the successful candidate will need to possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About St Francis CofE Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 407 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Francis CofE Primary School website
Our vision here at St Francis is every person matters, every person helps, every person succeeds, so that each of us can live "life in all its fulness" (John 10:10). This embedded vision for our school ensures that, even though we are a large school, we maintain a caring, family feel in which children are happy and flourish.
As a Church school, our teaching encompasses our core Christian values of Courage, Peace, Thankfulness, Trust, Friendship and Hope. These values complement our Trust’s Core Shared Values and our Trust philosophy of ‘work hard, be honest & help others’.
Our curriculum is enriched with a range of visits and visitors, and we aspire to build our children’s ‘cultural capital’ by exposing them to range of experiences whilst at our school. Children have opportunities to den build, visit heritage sites, rock pool, experience water sports, camp overnight, go down into a mine, challenge themselves on an adventure residential, go to the theatre, visit a city outside of Cornwall, go to the Science Museum, visit a University, and so much more. These opportunities provide fun and memorable learning experiences, whilst demonstrating to our children all the opportunities that are afforded to them. The sky really is the limit and we want our children to leave us believing they can achieve.
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