Headteacher Designate
Primitas Learning Partnership, Burntwood, WS7 4QH20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
3 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Monday to Friday 32.5 hrs per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £59,166 - £68,584
Pay scale
- L8 - L14
What skills and experience we're looking for
As Headteacher Designate, you will:
- Create a safe, inclusive, nurturing, friendly, and aspirational school culture, rooted in high expectations
- Develop a stimulating and engaging learning environment that promotes curiosity, encourages creativity and is conducive to high achievement.
- Ensure that safeguarding, child protection and pupil well-being are at the heart of all school practices.
- Work collaboratively with Trust leaders, local governors, families and the local community to shape and realise a vision for a successful and thriving primary school.
- Design and deliver a high-quality, ambitious and engaging primary curriculum that inspires a love of learning in every child and lays strong foundations for future success as a well-rounded citizen.
- Recruit, develop, and motivate a passionate and highly skilled workforce who are dedicated to supporting every child to thrive and succeed.
We are looking for a leader who:
- Has a proven track record of effective leadership in primary education, including a deep understanding of early child development.
- Is committed to inclusion, equity and the provision of high quality, appropriate educational provision for all pupils.
- Brings drive, determination, resilience, creativity and adaptability to the mission of creating an exceptional new school.
- Has strong interpersonal skills and excels in building positive, productive relationships with the full range of stakeholders from within the school, across our Trust, beyond our Trust and in the local and wider community.
Has well-developed strategic skills to facilitate sustained whole-school developments, married with the operational acumen to step in and do whatever it takes to run the school on a day-to day basis.
What the school offers its staff
In return we can offer you:
- A commitment to sustained professional development, to ensure that you succeed as Headteacher whilst actively contributing to school improvement across and beyond our Trust as an Executive Leader.
- A highly supportive Trust and central team who ‘get education’ and who have an unswerving focus on our educational mission, working with our academies to ensure that all children achieve the kind of education that they need and deserve.
- An incredibly positive and supportive working environment, working for a Trust which runs a close-knit family of schools, in which:
- Our human resources are our most important and valuable resources.
- Staff wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do.
- All headteachers have a vested interest in each others’ success and actively support each other to succeed.
- Access to an extensive range of employee benefits which cover workplace wellbeing, personal healthcare, financial and social support and lifestyle enrichment. These include benefits such as a corporate healthcare plan, free gym membership - and many more.
- Competitive salary.
Further details about the role
Primitas Learning Partnership formed in September 2021 with a clear educational mission of: ‘Empowering and enabling schools to work together to provide the kind of education that every child needs and deserves’.
We are acutely aware that children only have one chance at a high quality, school-based education and so they need and deserve the best. Therefore, we are passionate about making this happen by doing the rights things in the right way… by being a truly collaborative educational venture, where everyone is of prime importance and where we are all expected to demonstrate leadership, with integrity and kindness, to help others improve.
Our Trust was formed in the midst of a global pandemic when we were all forced to confront the reality that humanity is our most precious commodity, life is a team pursuit and that we need each other to survive, thrive and succeed. These vital truths have become part of our DNA and so Primitas Learning Partnership will always put people first.
By the time Greywood Primary Academy opens in September 2026, Primitas Learning Partnership will be a close-knit family of nine schools, in the Lichfield and Burntwood district of Staffordshire, comprising of:
- Two mainstream secondary schools
- Five mainstream primary schools
- One special secondary school
- One special middle school
At the time of writing, all of our schools are OFSTED ‘Good’ or better (or the equivalent of).
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape an academy’s identity and legacy from the very beginning. If you are excited by the challenge of leading and growing our new school, we would love to hear from you.
Further information on the role and Primitas Learning Partnership is available via the link below:
https://www.primitas.co.uk/headteacher-designate/
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@primitas.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
About Primitas Learning Partnership
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- hr@primitas.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01543229937
Primitas Learning Partnership formed in September 2021 with a clear educational mission of: ‘Empowering and enabling schools to work together to provide the kind of education that every child needs and deserves’.
We are acutely aware that children only have one chance at a high quality, school-based education and so they need and deserve the best. Therefore, we are passionate about making this happen by doing the rights things in the right way… by being a truly collaborative educational venture, where everyone is of prime importance and where we are all expected to demonstrate leadership, with integrity and kindness, to help others improve.
Our Trust was formed in the midst of a global pandemic when we were all forced to confront the reality that humanity is our most precious commodity, life is a team pursuit and that we need each other to survive, thrive and succeed. These vital truths have become part of our DNA and so Primitas Learning Partnership will always put people first.
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