Headteacher
Brentwood County High School, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 4JF23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
13 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £98,044.00 - £113,356.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Range 28 to 34
Headteacher job summary
Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust and governors are seeking to appoint an experienced, dynamic and inspirational Headteacher, who shares the Trust’s co-operative and inclusive ethos. The Headteacher will work in partnership with the Trust Assistant CEO and wider Trust leadership to continue the school’s journey of improvement and will demonstrate a commitment to the Trust’s Forward Plan and vision for the academic success and personal development of every student.
We are looking for someone that is approachable, with excellent communication skills who can effectively build relationships and partnerships throughout their school and across the Trust.
We are seeking an ambitious leader with a proven track record of driving school improvement, who will work collaboratively with our forward-thinking and innovative Leadership Team to build upon the strong foundations already in place at Brentwood County High School.
Following our “Good” Ofsted rating in June 2022, demand for places in Year 7 and Year 12 has continued to grow. In February 2024, we proudly unveiled the final phase of our £27 million DfE heritage building project. This development combines cutting-edge learning environments—including state-of-the-art science, sport, technology, and art facilities—with the preserved charm and character of our original school buildings, which date back over a century.
Brentwood County High School is firmly rooted in serving their community. We are proud to be an inclusive co-educational comprehensive school where we recognise that success for young people is built on firm foundations of trust, respect, care and hard work. Brentwood County High School a great place to teach and learn. Our pupils are motivated and highly engaged by a dynamic learning environment, with a wide range of leadership and enrichment activities help to encourage a spirit of co-operation, aspiration and joy for pupils.
Our Trust cares about its staff, and you will find the team to be a warm, welcoming and hardworking group, with staff wellbeing and professional development high on our agenda. As a Trust, we recognise the value of and seek to achieve a diverse workforce.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (www.osborne.coop/working-with-us).
If you would like to meet the team and take a tour of the school, please contact our HR Director, Louise Guy (l.guy@osborne.coop).
If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application. Please download the attached recruitment brochure for further information about this role.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Brentwood County High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1109 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Brentwood County High School website (opens in new tab)
Secondary school in Brentwood, part of the Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust.
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