Headteacher at Walliscote Primary School

Walliscote Primary School, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, BS23 1UY

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  17 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 January 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: 1 FTE
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £72,162 - £81,440

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an approachable, communicative headteacher who embodies our school values in that they aim high, work hard and are kind. You will have high expectations of all and the leadership skills to motivate, inspire, collaborate with, and facilitate your whole team to achieve the extraordinary.

You will be committed to working with, and in, the wider school community, ensuring its needs are met and diversity reflected and celebrated within the school. Our expectation is that the headteacher of our school will strive for the best, continually develop educational provision and create a positive inclusive culture and environment that prioritises emotional wellbeing and fosters success for all.

What the school offers its staff

ELAN is a local, primary specialist multi-academy trust, that is committed to providing the support and services that allow school leaders to focus on people and education. As a member of the trust you will be supported by, and collaborate with, talented education professionals within the central team and trust wide networks who will work with you in developing and delivering all aspects of educational provision. In addition, comprehensive finance, HR, payroll, health and safety, estates, business and operational support is provided to the school by experienced professionals within the central services team.

We will support you to be you. As a trust we continuously look beyond current and traditional educational practice and support our people to pursue the evidence and adopt the new. We encourage our leaders to stand up, step out, challenge and do things differently in order to embrace the extraordinary.

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@extendlearning.org

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Walliscote Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 309 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Walliscote Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@extendlearning.org
• Phone number: 01934 313394
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/walliscote-primary-school-weston-super-mare (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Walliscote Primary School

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