Head Teacher

Breadsall Hill Top Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4ET

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  17 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  27 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £75,675.00 - £87,651.00

Head Teacher job summary

Head Teacher – Breadsall Hill Top Primary School

Required for September 2025

NOR: 410 (Group 3)

Leadership Points 18 – 24 £75,675-£87,651 (plus a discretionary allowance up to L26 for the right candidate)

Our dedicated and well respected Headteacher is retiring at the end of this academic year. Breadsall Hill Top Primary School is seeking an inspirational, enthusiastic leader with a proven track record in driving school improvement and achieving excellent outcomes in the primary phase. Our Governors want to ensure that under your leadership our school continues to improve, and our children and adults thrive and reach their maximum potential. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior leader to continue making a difference to our whole school community.

Our new Head teacher will impact not only on raising attainment, but most importantly lead on helping our children to be happy, safe and secure and create great memories for them. We have high aspirations at Breadsall Hill Top. We want you to build on the momentum and continue to drive our vision and ensure success for each and every child as well as push on with progress and achievements which still are developing. You will need to share and demonstrate our school values: Respect, Kindness and Honesty. In order 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, build purposeful relationships with the kindness that we have put at the centre of our school relational based behaviour strategy.

If you lead with integrity, are empathetic and can motivate all within the school community we would love to hear from you.

Our pupils and staff have told us that they want our new Headteacher to:

• Be an ambitious and inspirational leader, able to motivate and empower staff and children to achieve their full potential. 

• Ensure that everyone has a voice and is valued.

• Be a visible leader who leads from the front and is not afraid to stand up for what is right.

• Continue to build and strengthen that feeling of ‘family’.

• Have ambition for all children to achieve the highest standards

• Be committed to children enjoying, being engaged in their learning as well as being challenged

• Have experience of leading people, developing their expertise and holding to account

• Have proven senior leadership experience within a primary school. 

• Lead with honesty and integrity.

• Communicate confidently with all members of the school community

• Ensure that all children have extended learning opportunities through clubs, events, visits and residentials.

• Be kind, everyone should feel safe and that they belong.

We offer: 

• A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards and delivering the best outcomes for BHTP children

• The opportunity to work with a rapidly improving leadership team and to develop a first-hand experience of school improvement

• Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

• Calm and purposeful learning environments

• Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community 

• A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

• Opportunities for career progression as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

Being part of Transform Trust means that you will have access to the following:

• Peer to peer networking, collaboration, challenge and support

• The security of working in a climate of shared accountability

• Investment in your professional development and future career

• Opportunities to contribute to the development of a growing organisation and 

• Access to a range of core services that enable you to focus on leading, teaching and learning.

How to apply:

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website http://www.transformtrust.co.uk/vacancies. 

Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Closing date: Monday 17th March at 12.00 noon

Interviews: Thursday 27th March 2025

For an informal discussion please contact Lindsay Clark, Chair of Governors on 0115 9825090.

Visits to the school are available on 4th, 5th and 11th March 9.30- 10.30am.

Should you wish to arrange a visit to the school please email Tanya Davies in Transform Trust HR at hradmin@transformtrust.co.uk 

Commitment to safeguarding

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education.

Applying for the job

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About Breadsall Hill Top Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 428 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Breadsall Hill Top Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/breadsall-hill-top-primary-school-derby

Breadsall is a warm and caring community housed in extensive grounds with 6 separate classroom blocks, 2 halls and a number of intervention spaces.



As a team we constantly strive to achieve the very best for you and your child in order to create successful and happy children. Education is a partnership between home and school and we place a great deal of emphasis on our relationship with parents. We believe that children learn best when home and school work together for their benefit.



Our RESPECT code and vision is a living and breathing representation of our school where expectations of ALL pupils are the highest for Learning, Behaviour, Attendance and Punctuality. As a learning community we are committed to providing only the best quality teaching and learning opportunities both in the classroom and outdoors. We have an exciting and engaging curriculum based on a cross curricular approach, which aims to link thinking across subject areas and also develop positive learning behaviours and key skills for life-long learning.



We are a growing school, we know our children well and acknowledge that building positive relationships coupled with high expectations and high quality learning are the keys to success. However parents/carers are important partners in every child’s education and with our support we actively encourage and expect parents/carers to engage in supporting their child’s learning.



Please visit our website https://www.bhtp.co.uk/welcome/ which gives you a flavour of what our wonderful school has to offer, if you have any questions please contact the school office. But don’t simply take our word for it – come and see for yourself; we would be delighted to show you around.

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