Headteacher
Banstead Community Junior School, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2BQ9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L13-18
What skills and experience we're looking for
Banstead Community Junior School is seeking a dynamic and dedicated Headteacher to lead our thriving, high-achieving, and community-focused school into its next chapter.
Rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted (2023), inspectors recognised that ‘Warm relationships, built on respect and trust, permeate this school. Pupils are happy and polite.’ BCJS is a vibrant and well-resourced junior school offering a broad and balanced curriculum that nurtures academic excellence, creativity, and personal growth.
With a strong emphasis on high-quality teaching, pastoral care, and extracurricular opportunities, we are looking for an exceptional leader who can build on our successes while driving innovation and continuous improvement.
If you are passionate about developing lifelong learners, fostering an inclusive and ambitious learning environment, and working closely with a dedicated team of staff and governors, we would love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of BCJS and making a lasting impact on the lives of our pupils.
The successful applicant will:
• Be an ambitious and strategic leader
• Able to adapt their approach to maximise the opportunities of a given situation, and able to partner and communicate well in developing circumstances.
• Have an eye for how to grow our appeal while keeping our character.
• Have had extensive leadership experience, but we will be willing to look at candidates for a first post at this level.
• Lead with empathy, and by example, to manage and motivate staff and pupils
• Work collaboratively with staff and governors to develop our school vision to achieve the best possible academic and pastoral outcomes for all our children
• Demonstrate a commitment to ensuring our pupils succeed, develop curiosity for the
wider world as well as their own self-confidence and self-worth.
What the school offers its staff
BCJS is a friendly and inclusive 3 form entry school within the heart of Banstead village, valuing strong community links.
In order to thrive and to be successful, we believe it is important that all children are given the opportunity to succeed, develop curiosity for the wider world as well as their own self-confidence and self-worth.
We offer a school that weaves high academic expectations with a strong emphasis on sport, music and the arts. This is underpinned with a firm grounding in their moral, spiritual and ethical development.
The benefits of working at BCJS
• A staff that is caring, dedicated and well-qualified
• A spacious, well-equipped school conveniently located in Banstead Village, on a large, landscaped site with a sizeable playing field, a Greek garden and an outdoor classroom.
• A supportive school community and governors
• A school where the children are happy, want to attend and whose standards of behaviour are praised.
• Ongoing professional development and collaboration with local partners
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 chair@bcjs.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Banstead Community Junior School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 310 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Banstead Community Junior School website
- Email address
- chair@bcjs.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01737351788
Arranging a visit to Banstead Community Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email chair@bcjs.org.uk.
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