Headteacher
Cliffedale Primary School, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 8DP7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
11 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale 14-20
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our new Headteacher will:
- Be an active, visible presence in the school, familiar with and committed to engaging with all aspects of school life;
- Be able to demonstrate excellence in innovation and raising attainment;
- Lead and develop a high achieving team with leadership through all levels;
- Maintain sound financial planning and management;
- Value people and be able to demonstrate an open and inclusive approach to working and communicating with children, staff, governors, parents and the wider community;
- Be committed to providing a creative and challenging curriculum which meets the need of all children; and
- Build on existing progress to deliver sustainable improvement throughout the school in line the vision and strategic plans set by the Governing Body.
What the school offers its staff
We are proud to offer you:
- Friendly, enthusiastic and happy children and a dedicated team of caring staff who strive for excellence in bringing learning to life;
- Support from a proactive Governing Body who want the very best for the school;
- A commitment to the ‘whole child’ in a nurturing environment; and
- A school that is well regarded and respected within the area.
Further details about the role
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Shaping the future:
- With the Governing Body, share a vision for the school for its next phase of development, which is understood and acted upon by all.
- Work within the school community to translate the vision into agreed objectives and operational plans that will promote and sustain school improvement.
- Demonstrate the vision and values in everyday work and practice.
- Ensure creativity, innovation and the use of appropriate new technologies to achieve excellence.
- Ensure strengthening links with the wider community is a feature of strategic planning.
Leading, Learning and Teaching:
- Ensure that learning and teaching are at the centre of strategic planning and resource management, raising standards and outcomes for pupils across all abilities and age ranges.
- Enhance creative, dynamic and effective approaches to learning and teaching.
- Ensure a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and are engaged in their own learning.
- Implement a diverse, flexible curriculum and an effective assessment framework that focuses on developing each child as an individual beyond the classroom.
- Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice, promoting improvement and appropriate intervention strategies.
- Challenge underperformance at all levels and ensure effective corrective action and follow-up is in place.
Leadership:
- Develop and maintain a culture of high expectations for self and for others, taking prompt and effective action when performance and/or behaviour is unsatisfactory.
- Monitor the responsibilities and celebrate achievements of individuals and teams.
- Treat people fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect to create and maintain a positive school culture.
- Ensure effective planning, allocation, support and evaluation of work undertaken by teams and individuals together with clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities.
- Review own practice regularly, set personal targets and take responsibility for own personal development, demonstrating resilience along the way.
- Manage own workload and that of others to allow an appropriate work/life balance.
Management:
- Implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies for the development of the school and its facilities.
- Recruit, retain and deploy staff appropriately and monitor their workload to achieve the vision and goals of the school.
- Conduct an effective, transparent, and robust performance management process with all staff.
- Enable management systems, structures, and processes to work effectively in line with legal requirements.
- Ensure policies and practices take account of national and local circumstances, policies, and initiatives.
- Manage the school’s financial and human resources effectively to achieve the school’s educational goals and other priorities.
- Manage and organise the school environment efficiently and effectively to ensure that it meets the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations.
- Ensure the range, quality and use of all available resources is monitored, evaluated, and reviewed to improve the quality of education for all pupils and provide value for money.
- Proactively identify and effectively address emerging issues.
Accountability:
- Ensure individual staff accountabilities are clearly defined, understood and agreed and are subject to rigorous review and evaluation.
- Ensure that everyone works collaboratively, sharing knowledge and understanding, celebrating successes, and accepting responsibility for outcomes and driving future improvements.
- Work closely with the Governing Body, providing information, objective advice, and support, to enable it to meet its responsibilities.
- Present a coherent, understandable, and accurate account of the school’s strategy and performance to a range of audiences including staff, governors, parents, and carers. Take prompt and effective action to address emerging issues.
- Reflect on personal effectiveness in relation to school achievements, acting promptly on feedback presented to you.
Strengthening Community Links:
- Ensure learning experiences for pupils are linked into and integrated with the wider community, reaching beyond academic progress.
- Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development.
- Work in partnership with other schools and organisations, sharing effective practice and promoting innovation.
- Collaborate with other agencies to promote the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of pupils and their families.
- Invite parents and carers, community figures, businesses or other organisations into school to enhance and enrich its value to the wider community.
- Create and promote positive strategies for preventing and dealing with prejudice or harassment, complying with legal obligations.
Safeguarding Children:
- Take the lead responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children within school.
- Provide advice and support to staff, liaising with the Local Authority and working with the family support worker and other agencies to ensure child protection concerns are dealt with promptly and effectively.
- Ensure Safeguarding policies and procedures are fully implemented, updated, and adhered to by all staff.
- Ensure there is a designated lead for Safeguarding/Child Protection matters and that all staff discharge their duties effectively in this regard.
- Ensure all staff and volunteers can raise concerns about poor or unsafe practice regarding children, and that such concerns are handled sensitively and effectively in accordance with appropriate procedures.
Commitment to safeguarding
Cliffedale Primary School is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.
Cliffedale Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applicants should note that this post is subject to enhanced DBS clearance, and references taken before interview.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Cliffedale Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 289 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cliffedale Primary School website
- Email address
- sheila.malham@lincolnshire.gov.uk
- Phone number
- 01476 568740
On behalf of the children, staff and governors I would like to welcome you to Cliffedale Primary School. We are a happy school with excellent relationships between pupils, staff, parents and governors. We are all very proud of our school and we have high expectations of ourselves and of all the children. We are an active learning community where positive approaches to learning and improvement sit at the heart of everything we do.
As a school we are passionate about developing all of the children in our care. We strive to provide a learning environment that enables children to thrive in a caring family environment. Our core Values of Resilience, Independence, Achievement and Curiosity underpin everything we do here at Cliffedale. We see ourselves very much as the Cliffedale Family.
We encourage our pupils, families, staff and governors to work together as a team. If you are interested in becoming part of the Cliffedale family, please do get in touch. Our website will tell you a lot about our school, but the best way of really seeing how good our school is, is to arrange a visit. We would be happy to show you around the school and the children will be happy to show off their learning!
Arranging a visit to Cliffedale Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sheila.malham@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
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