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Headteacher Designate - New 2-form entry Primary School (Nuneaton)
Central England Academy Trust, Nuneaton, CV11 4QHThis job expired on 6 October 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
6 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
29 September 2025
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
- L17 - L23
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
Central England Academy Trust is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Headteacher Designate to start January/April 2026 at our brand-new Primary School opening September 2026.
Key information about the school
- Location: Callendar Farm, Nuneaton
- Opening: September 2026
- Pupil Places: 420 (Two-Form Entry)
- SEND Provision: Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) for 14 children with communication and interaction needs (Incremental admission numbers that increase with the PAN)
- Part of a Local Multi-Academy Trust: Strong collaborative culture, shared professional development, and strategic support
- School Group: 3
- Salary Scale: Leadership Pay Range L17 – L23
- Headteacher Designate Start Date: January or April 2026
Important Information
The provisional opening date for this Brand-New School has been confirmed as September 2026. Staff well-being, welfare and professional development are priorities which are underpinned by our Trust core values of Collaboration, Equity, Aspiration and Trust. We fervently believe that if we get it right for staff then we then get it right for pupils.
Our vision for the school
This new school will serve as a vibrant, inclusive and aspirational hub for the local community. We are committed to:
- Delivering exceptional education for every child, with a strong foundation in EYFS and primary curriculum excellence.
- Embedding aculture of high expectations, curiosity, creativity and kindness.
- Establishing a school that is outward facing and collaborative, actively working with local schools and the wider MAT.
- Creating an inclusive environment where vulnerable pupils, including those SEND and additional needs, are supported with care, expertise and ambition.
The Role of the Founding Headteacher
This is a career-defining role to:
- Lead the strategic planning and operational setup of a new school.
- Recruit and build a talented team aligned with the Trust’s values.
- Design and implement a rich, relevant and engaging curriculum from EYFS through to Year 6.
- Champion inclusion and provide strategic leadership for the SEND resource provision.
- Build partnerships with families, the local community and key stakeholders.
- Collaborate closely with MAT leaders and fellow headteachers to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
This is a rare opportunity to create something truly special. We look forward to hearing from passionate leaders ready to take the next step in their career.
Job Summary
To provide outstanding leadership and management of the school and designated aspects of the Trust’s work to secure sustainable success and ensure the highest standards of curriculum experience, teaching and learning, behaviour, attendance, safeguarding and personal development for its pupils.
To meet the expectations of the prevailing Headteachers’ Standards (currently Headteachers’ Standards 2020). These standards underpin best practice and will shape the professional and personal development of the Headteacher Designate to raise standards and support the successful implementation of whole school initiatives and priorities.
What the school offers its staff
Our offer to you
We strive to be an employer of choice, and are committed to ensuring our employees feel valued, appreciated and at the heart of what we do.
We have a number of core benefits which include:
Professional Development
We support all our schools and services to offer professional development that is rooted in the evidence of what improves teaching and learning.
We listen to what yourcareer aspirations are and how we can support you within your role.
We provide Trust-wide CPD in key areas, including SEND, behaviour and teaching and learning.
We support staff in accessing a wide range of qualifications, including Diplomas, Masters and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs).
Appraisal
Our staff appraisal focuses onsupporting our employees to be the very best they can be.There isno performance-related payin our Trust, and we put staff at the heart of what we do so they can put children at the heart of what they do
Apprenticeship Levy
As a large employer we pay into the Apprenticeship Levy Fund and are therefore able tooffer a wide range of apprenticeshipsto both new and existing staff.
Pension Schemes
A contributorypension scheme relevant to your role: Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff, and the Local Government Pension Scheme for non-teaching staff.
Employee Support Schemes
Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- A Gym Membership Scheme
- A Cycle to Work Scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support.
- An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials
- A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more.
Further information about the job
How to Apply
If you are interested in applying for this post, please click on this linkhttps://centralenglandacademytrust.face-ed.co.uk/vacanciesand select the Headteacher Designate position. Alternatively, you can contact Vicky McKay, PA to the CEO atvmckay@centralengland.co.ukto request an application pack.
Please see the attached Job Application Pack for the full details of the role, including the Person Specification.
Safeguarding Information
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will also be taken through the Trust's vetting procedure. Central England Academy Trustis also strongly committed to protecting personal data.OurPrivacyNotice, which can be found under the GDPR section on the Trust website, describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will be taken through the Trust's vetting procedure.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks:
Childcare disqualification
Enhanced DBS
Medical
Online and social media
Prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must let us know about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Central England Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- vmckay@centralengland.co.uk
- Phone number
- 024 7674 0901
Thank you for your interest in joining Central England Academy Trust. Our diverse Trust serves families in Nuneaton and the surrounding areas, and currently consists of 5 schools: a primary special school, a secondary special school, two mainstream secondary schools and a mainstream junior school. We are also delighted to be opening a brand-new mainstream primary school in September 2026.
Our Trust’s core values summarise what is important to us and what we actively promote:
Collaboration: To work closely and productively with others for the greater good of everyone involved. To be positive, thoughtful and supportive towards others through showing appreciation and respect of own and other cultures, values and beliefs. We want everyone in our Trust to feel as though they are an important part of a large family.
Equity: Recognising that we do not start from the same place equity is about providing others with what they need in order to provide an equal access to opportunities. We want our school communities to be happy, empowered and supported through democratic processes and robust systems and structures where the autonomy, strengths and the uniqueness of the individual is supported, promoted and celebrated.
Aspiration: To always be ambitious ensuring that pupils and staff in our schools have the knowledge and skills to progress towards their aspirations and beyond. To support pupils to take their place in society and achieve success in adulthood.
Trust: To feel safe knowing that the reactions of others are well meaning and that systems and structures to support are consistent and predicable. To be well-informed and kept up-to-date and empowered to communicate wishes, concerns and opinions without fear of retribution.
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