Headteacher

Great Kimble Church of England School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP17 9TH

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025 or earlier

• Closing date

  12 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  26 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £56,316.00 - £74,926.00 Annually (Actual) You will be appointed on a 7 point pay range within the leadership scale L6-L18

Headteacher job summary

Job Purpose: -

To lead, develop and manage the school effectively and efficiently, providing clear vision and positive, incisive and purposeful leadership and educational direction for the school.

To ensure the highest possible quality of education, range of educational opportunities and standards of progress and attainment for all pupils in this diverse school.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic direction and development of the school:

- Reporting to the CEO, work with the Local Governing Board and the Trustee Board to provide vision, leadership and a clear strategic direction for the school

- Formulating the overall aims and objectives of the school and policies and programmes for their implementation

- Producing, monitoring and evaluating the school improvement plan, underpinned by sound financial planning, which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring that pupils achieve high standards and make progress, increasing teachers’ effectiveness and securing school improvement

- Securing the commitment of staff, pupils, parents and the wider community to the vision and direction of the school, in which everyone is valued

- Ensuring that the management, finance, organisation and administration of the school support its vision and aims

- Establishing a positive ethos of commitment to high achievement and an inspirational learning environment

- Ensuring that safeguarding and protecting children is a core priority of the school’s work, within a culture of vigilance

- Creating an outward facing school that works with other schools and organisations - in a climate of mutual challenge and support - to champion best practice and secure excellent progress and achievements for all pupils

Teaching and Learning

- Demanding ambitious standards for all pupils, overcoming disadvantage and advancing equity and equality, instilling a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on pupils’ outcomes

- Addressing areas for improvement identified in the school's Self-Evaluation Framework and School Improvement Plan

- Promoting and securing good teaching, accelerated progress and exemplary behaviour for learning within a strong safeguarding culture

- Determining, organising, implementing and monitoring the curriculum and its assessment in order to identify and act on areas for improvement

- Monitoring and evaluating the quality of teaching and standards of learning and achievement of all pupils, including those with special educational needs

- Creating and maintaining a meaningful and effective partnership with parents and carers to support and improve pupils’ achievements and personal development

Leading and Managing Staff

- Working with the Local Governing Board and the Great Learners Trust to recruit staff of the highest quality

- Deploying and managing all teaching and support staff

- Distributing leadership throughout the organisation, ensuring that colleagues have distinct roles and responsibilities and hold each other to account for their decision-making

- Implementing and sustaining effective systems for the management of staff performance, incorporating targets for teachers relating to pupils’ achievement

- Facilitating and initiating new ideas and encouraging development in the curriculum and technology

- Identifying emerging talents, coaching current and aspiring school leaders

- Holding all staff to account for their professional conduct and practice

Efficient and Effective Deployment of Staff and Resources

- Creating an ethos within which all staff are motivated and supported to develop their own skills and subject knowledge, and to support each other

- Deploying and developing all staff effectively in order to improve the quality of education provided

- Setting appropriate priorities for expenditure, allocating funds and ensuring effective administration and control

- Managing and organising accommodation efficiently and effectively to ensure that it meets the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations

- Managing, monitoring and reviewing the range, quality, quantity and use of all resources in order to improve the quality of education, improve pupils’ achievements, ensure efficiency and secure value for money

- Ensuring all staff, volunteers and others that work with children are safe, by following appropriate procedures

Accountability

- Providing information, advice and support to the Local Governing Board and the Great Learners Trust to enable them to meet their responsibilities

- Creating and developing an organisation in which all staff recognise that they are accountable for the success of the school

- Presenting a coherent and accurate account of the school’s performance in a form appropriate to a range of audiences

- Ensuring that parents and pupils are well informed about the curriculum, attainment and progress, and about the contributions that they can make

The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative and may vary over time. Post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and extent of the post and the school.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Great Kimble Church of England School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 102 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Great Kimble Church of England School website (opens in new tab)
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