Headteacher

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR4 6HY

12 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
27 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 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: Full time, Monday - Friday.
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: L15 – L21 (£70,293 - £81,441)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Applications are invited from practising and committed Catholics for the post of Headteacher at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School (Millfield, Sunderland).

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is a happy and welcoming school at which Jesus is at the heart of all learning. The school is part of a diverse community where all children thrive. Children, staff and governors strive to make the school a place of excellence and all staff have the highest expectations of both themselves and pupils.

The school Vision Statement outlines its ethos:

St Joseph’s is a happy, welcoming community, enriched by our diversity, where we strive to be better than our best. A place where we love one another, love learning, love Jesus and love life.

The successful candidate will have the ambition, drive and expertise to ensure that St Joseph’s continues to thrive and will receive excellent support from the school, Governors, Trust central team, the Diocese and partner schools.

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is part of Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust which is one of four Trusts in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. The Trust includes five Secondary and twenty five Primary Schools across South Tyneside, Sunderland and East Durham.

Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust safeguards and protects its students and staff by being committed to respond in accordance with South Tyneside Child Protection Procedures. Enhanced DBS checks are mandatory for all school staff.

Application documents should be fully completed and submitted by email to recruitment@bccet.org.uk by 9am on Monday 27th January 2025.

Completed application forms are required and CVs will not be accepted. Candidates are welcome to apply for more than one of our Headteacher vacancies. In this instance, we would request a separate application form is submitted for each post.

For enquiries regarding this role or to arrange a visit to the school, please contact Deb Mollon, Executive Assistant at dmollon@bccet.org.uk

Shortlisting: Tuesday 4th February 2025

Interviews: Thursday 13th and Friday 14th February 2025

Electronic signatures will be accepted but candidates will be required to add a written signature to their application when circumstances allow.

The position we are filling is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. An online search will be completed for all shortlisted candidates.

Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and we expect staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

What the school offers its staff

- Competitive Salaries

- Generous pension schemes (Teachers/Local Government)

- High quality professional development opportunities

- Career progression opportunities across the Trust

- Workload Charter

- All employees can access counselling and flu immunisation vouchers

- Commitment to national T&C's for all staff in line with the Bishop's memorandum of understanding for Catholic Schools

- Real Living Wage paid as minimum

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.