Headteacher
St Thomas à Becket Church of England Aided Primary School, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 4RZ24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
24 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
25 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £54,938.00 - £63,815.00 Annually (Actual) L5 - L11
Headteacher job summary
EQUA Mead Learning Trust is a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share best practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing each school’s individual and distinctive character. We believe every child has the right to an inspiring and fulfilling education and we seek to improve the life chances of all those we serve; therefore, we make it our mission to give Every Child, Every Chance of success.
At EQUA Mead, we are an inclusive, passionate and forward-looking educational organisation. We are a Trust of seventeen primary schools, two secondary schools and eight nurseries, all based in Wiltshire. In addition, we have three additional schools joining us in September 2025. Across our schools, we also have four Resource Bases that provide specialist education to children and young people with complex needs.
We believe in the power of education to transform lives and shape a brighter future. We are dedicated to fostering a strong sense of community where everyone works together to achieve their very best. At all of our schools, we do all we can to enable each child and young person to realise their full potential and to develop positive social and moral values.
We understand that successful schools are rooted in their local community. We respect and value the individual nature and ethos of each school while knowing we are more effective when we work together and support each other. We are a mixed Trust that benefits from both church and non-church-based schools and we actively celebrate this diversity. We are highly inclusive and collaborate closely to promote a culture of openness and integrity.
We thrive on providing a wealth of support to schools and seek to empower school leaders. Our CPD, NPQs, ITT, networks, training, research programmes and range of courses underpin a comprehensive development programme for all staff, whilst ensuring wellbeing is at the centre of all decision making.
We have lots more information about EQUA Mead on our website (www.equamead.org), however, if at any stage, you would like to find out more, please do feel free to get in touch.
The role and purpose
We are looking for a visionary Headteacher to promote enthusiasm for learning and guide our school through the next phase of its development.
Depending on pupil numbers, the role may include a teaching commitment.
We are seeking an outstanding educational leader who wants to make a difference for our children. The successful candidate will also be an exceptional teacher with the vision and drive for continuous school development and improvement.
This is an excellent opportunity to work within a high performing Multi Academy Trust at an exciting stage of its development.
For further information including a full job description please see the attached recruitment pack.
This role will involve contact with children and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed. We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted.
This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow Safer Recruitment procedures and all interviews, regardless of role, will include questions about approaches to safeguarding. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available on our website and follows all guidance in the most recent Keeping Children Safe in Education.
All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exception Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Please note that by submitting an application, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to view any publicly available information published online (including social media platforms) as part of our shortlisting process, in line with current KCSIE guidelines.
Commitment to safeguarding
Equa Multi Academy Trust is committed to safer recruitment and promoting
the safeguarding and welfare of our children and families. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Thomas à Becket Church of England Aided Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 45 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
St Thomas à Becket Primary School is situated in the village of Tilshead, which is a beautiful rural location in the middle of Salisbury Plain. We are a Church of England school based within the Salisbury Diocese with a net capacity of 70 children across three classes.
We are proud to be part of Equa Multi Academy Trust.
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