Headteacher
Bassett Green Primary School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 3BZ20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 February 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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Group 3 School, L18- L24* £75,674 - £86,783
What skills and experience we're looking for
Be Brave, Be Brilliant, Be Your Best at Bassett Green
Our school motto is "Be brave, be brilliant, be your best," which encapsulates our dynamic and ambitious approach to education.
We are an inclusive two-form city primary school in the multicultural and diverse ward of Bassett on the northern edge of Southampton, close to the University of Southampton, with great transport links and easily accessible within the city and from M27 and M3. Although we are maintained school, we are part of the Aspire Community Trust, meaning we benefit from the close working partnerships across our family of schools, as well as from the local authority.
We are immensely proud of all that we have achieved in recent years, our rapid school improvement is a testament to the hard work and collaboration of the staff, governors, pupils, parents, and the wider community which has fostered a strong ‘Bassett Green family culture’.
As our next inspiring leader, you will be dedicated to providing the highest quality education and care for our children, staff, and wider community You will need to be passionate and share our school vision:
- Inspire a passion and thirst for memorable and lifelong learning.
- Provides our community with the best life chances to thrive and achieve.
- Gives us the knowledge, skills, and values to succeed.
- Enables us to make a positive impact within the community and the wider world.
- Ensure every child is successful at school and beyond.
While the progress and achievements of Bassett Green Primary School are developing, we have high aspirations and we want you to build on the momentum and continue to drive our vision and ensure success for each and every child. You will need to share and demonstrate our school values: Respect, Challenge, Resilience and Teamwork.
To support our diverse community, you will be a highly effective communicator and capable of engaging our children and wider community. You will have the ability to inspire trust and confidence, with the kindness and love that we have put at the centre of our school shining through. We refer to this as the ‘Bassett Buzz’.
Your proven track record in driving improvement and achieving excellent outcomes in the primary phase will ensure that under your leadership our school continues to improve, and our children thrive and reach their maximum potential.
If this opportunity excites you, come be brave, be brilliant and be your best at Bassett Green. In the meantime, do browse our website https://www.bassettgreen.net/ and get in touch with the school office on 02380 676262 so you can come and experience our lovely school for yourself.
What the school offers its staff
We recognise that we have to look after our headteachers. Aspire Community Trust is proud tohave been the driving force behind the Southampton ‘Caversham Covenant’- a set ofagreements and understandings that seek to enable headteachers and other key partners tolook after each other during times when headship can feel like a lonely job. Because it’s still thebest job in the world, and schools flourish when their leaders thrive. We look after ourheadteachers - the Bassett Green post is a rare opportunity to come and join our vibrant familyof schools and secure a better future for all our children.
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 htrecruitment@bassettgreen.net
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bassett Green Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 481 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Bassett Green Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- htrecruitment@bassettgreen.net
- Phone number
- 023 8067 6262
We are a friendly, caring school with high expectations for all our pupils. Our children are encouraged to explore, discover and question through a range of memorable and exciting learning opportunities both within and outside the classroom. The staff endeavour to provide a calm and stimulating environment where good behaviour and mutual respect is modelled by everyone and where everyone is valued.
Our four values are respect, teamwork, resilience and challenge. These underpin everything we do.
Arranging a visit to Bassett Green Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email htrecruitment@bassettgreen.net.
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