Headteacher Birchfields Primary School
Birchfields Primary School, Manchester, M14 6PL17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 November 2024
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
- L21-L28
What skills and experience we're looking for
Ever since Birchfields Primary School opened in 1930, we’ve been at the heart of our local community. Today, we’re a busy and welcoming three-form primary school that reflects the rich multicultural diversity of south Manchester. Our extensive site means there’s plenty of outdoor space, and we are delighted that our recent Ofsted inspection (October 2024) resulted in a judgement of Good with Outstanding features.
We’re delighted to be able to invite applications to become a Headteacher who shares our love of learning, our positivity and our big ambitions for the school, its children, staff and community. We are seeking an outstanding leader who will work openly and positively in close collaboration with all our stakeholders to secure our continuing development as a school, and to support the whole school community to achieve its best.
Our new Headteacher will:
- Lead with vision, drive, compassion and empathy
- Demonstrate our school values of good health, respect, kindness, resilience, equality and honesty
- Ensure the school sits at the heart of our local community and that its diversity is celebrated
- Recognise and nurture what makes our school unique
- Have a collaborative and open, supportive style
Our children ask that you will:
- Celebrate our strengths and differences
- Listen to what we say, invite our challenge and act on our feedback
- Support and challenge us all so we can all reach our potential
- Welcome our ideas and is happy to give new things a go
- Make everyone feel welcome, safe and valued
What the school offers its staff
We offer you:
- A thriving, inclusive school with strong core values
- An energetic and highly skilled staff team of around 90, a dedicated governing body and highly engaged parents and carers
- A vibrant learning environment, where children behave beautifully and flourish
Flexible working opportunities
Further details about the role
As a school which is proud to serve a thriving multicultural community, we would particularly welcome applications from people whose background and perspectives are underrepresented in school leadership.
To find out more, please visit www.lead-birchfields.co.uk
To arrange a confidential conversation or a visit, please email Navigate NDC Ltd, who are supporting us with this appointment: birchfields@navigategroup.co.uk
Closing date for applications: 12 noon, Monday 10th December.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Birchfields Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 640 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Birchfields Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- birchfields@navigategroup.co.uk
Birchfields is a large (640 pupils) and effective three-form entry primary school and nursery on an extensive site in south Manchester.
Nearly 2/3 of our children have a first language other than English, including Urdu, Bengali and Somali, and the school’s annual budget is just over £4m. Our current PAN is 720 and around 45% of our children are eligble to receive free school meals. We’ve served our multicultural and diverse neighbourhood for nearly a century, and we are excited about what the future holds for our close-knit and supportive school community.
We are proud of our welcoming, busy, happy school, where children feel secure and behaviour is impeccable. We hope that our Birchfields children will become happy, confident adults who make a positive contribution to the lives of others. We want our children to be team players who are articulate, courageous, tenacious, inquisitive and creative. All children have opportunities to take responsibility, build their self-esteem and develop their self-confidence. Success is promoted and progress and achievement are celebrated regularly with our whole school community.
Equality, respect, resilience, honesty, good health and kindness are at the core of everything we do at Birchfields. We are an inclusive school, where all are given equality of opportunity regardless of gender, special needs, sexual orientation, religion, disability or race. Our recent Ofsted report (October 2024) highlights the outstanding behaviour and attitude of our children, as well as the ‘harmonious atmosphere’ throughout the school. Moreover, staff told inspectors that they felt ‘lucky to work at the school’ and that ‘they feel valued’.
Arranging a visit to Birchfields Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email birchfields@navigategroup.co.uk.
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