9 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    April or September 2025

  • Closing date

    31 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    17 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Leadership Scale: L24 - L29

Headteacher job summary

“Every child is an individual to be respected and taught to the best of their ability.”

We seek an inspirational and innovative leader of high calibre who has a proven track record in school improvement and the management of change.

You would join a well-established school with capacity to grow further which:

  • has talented staff, happy children, engaged parents and longstanding governors
  • is situated in a recently constructed modern building set in magnificent, expansive grounds
  • is part of the highly successful Bentley Wood Multi-Academy Trust

You will have:

  • strong strategic leadership and excellent management skills
  • the vision and skills to plan for leading Aylward to ‘Outstanding’ in all areas
  • a passion for securing the highest standards of learning and teaching
  • a commitment to strengthening the leadership capacity of staff and governors
  • a desire to constantly improve facilities available to pupils and staff

We invite you to become part of:

  • a large, friendly school where pupils are extremely well behaved and keen to learn
  • an enthusiastic, dedicated and ambitious staff team
  • a school where parents and governors are active partners

A visit to the school is strongly encouraged; please contact Aylward Primary School office directly via office@aylward.harrow.sch.uk or by phone.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is a very high priority at The Bentley Wood Trust. Our rigorous safer recruitment procedures ensure only safe adults who share this commitment work with our children. An online check will be carried out for any candidates invited for interview.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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About Aylward Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
530 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11

. Aylward Primary is a friendly, supportive and growing school, situated on the edge of London, a few minutes’ walk from Stanmore tube station. We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and inspirational teacher, working in either KS1 or KS2 (depending upon the individual strengths of the successful candidate). Early Career Teachers are also welcome to apply.

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