Headteacher

Bridgewater Primary School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 3AF

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st January 2027

• Closing date

  20 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership Scale L21-L27
• Additional allowances:

  Leadership Scale L21-L27

Headteacher job summary

You will be right for Bridgewater if you can:

• Set a clear, compelling vision for the future of the school and inspire others through both your personal presence and the quality of key documents and plans.

• Lead with ambition and moral purpose, with a belief that the school can be outstanding in all areas and a practical understanding of how to achieve this.

• Review the school’s aims and values with the community, ensuring they remain meaningful and are reflected in daily practice.

• Protect and champion our inclusive, nurture-led ethos, sustaining outstanding early years and excellent SEND provision.

• Strengthen curriculum depth across all subjects so that pupils acquire secure key knowledge and achieve well, including at greater depth.

• Develop leadership capacity and succession by enabling others to lead and by building a strong, supportive team culture.

• Communicate with clarity and confidence, using strong presentation skills to bring staff, pupils, parents and governors with you.

• Be open to innovation, including the safe and effective use of technology where it supports learning, staff workload and school improvement.

• Model a culture of continual professional learning, investing in your own development and the development of others.

You can expect:

• A warm, inclusive ethos where nurture, empathy and kindness are evident in daily practice.

• A healthy financial position and strong demand for places, providing stability and opportunity for strategic development.

• Outstanding early years provision and a strong start for children’s learning and development.

• Excellent SEND provision, including strong pastoral and nurture support, enabling pupils with SEND to do well.

• Very strong reading and phonics practice, with a whole-school commitment to early reading.

• An ambitious curriculum that encourages a love of learning, supported by a wide range of enrichment and strong community partnerships.

• A culture of professional learning, including research teams and high-quality CPD that supports reflective, evidence-informed practice.

• A well-maintained, well-resourced site and exceptional facilities, including a recently laid MUGA, a dedicated STEM science room, large playing fields, Forest School and outdoor learning areas (including a swale), a cubby room, and plans to redevelop the nursery.

• A committed governing body that will support you, and an established working relationship with the local authority.

• A leadership salary range (L21-L27) that reflects the scale and complexity of the role.

School Visits: We strongly encourage prospective candidates to visit the school. Please contact the school office to arrange a visit:

Telephone: 01604 637056

Email: bursar@bridgewater-pri.northants-ecl.gov.uk

Closing date: 20th May 2026

Shortlisting: w/c 25th May 2026

Interviews: w/c 8th June 2026

As part of our safeguarding process, recommended by the Keeping Children Safe in Education Publication Sept 2022, we will carry out an online search on all shortlisted candidates.

Equal Opportunities Statement:

Bridgewater Primary School welcomes applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We value the unique contributions that a diverse workforce brings and are dedicated to ensuring equal opportunity for all staff and pupils.

Safeguarding statement

We recognise that all adults have a full and active part to play in protecting our pupils from harm, and that the child’s welfare is our paramount concern. We recognise that safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility and that we all need to have “respectful uncertainty,” (Lord Laming, 2003), and it is this awareness and understanding that will support us to identify, protect and safeguard children effectively.

All new staff will be fully supported to demonstrate understanding and effective practice of safeguarding and rigorous checking procedures are in place for all employees.

In line with our school safeguarding policy, all appointments are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The successful applicant will also be expected to complete a medical questionnaire.

In line with the governments code of practice for workers in the public sector (Nov 2016) applicants in a customer-facing role must be able to speak English fluently.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Bridgewater Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 658 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bridgewater Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bridgewater-primary-school-northampton

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