Headteacher
Hexham First School, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 1JD29 days remaining to apply
Job start date
20 April 2026
Closing date
9 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 December 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
- L9 - L15
What skills and experience we're looking for
- An ambitious and progressive leader who can work as part of our close-knit team, but also independently when required.
- A leader who can build and maintain strong relationships with staff, governors and the wider local community.
- Experience of teaching across the first school age range.
- Experience, or an awareness, of the challenges that mixed-age classes and small mixed year groups teaching can bring.
- Someone who is as equally able to inspire all children in the classroom as they are at managing a budget and strategically steering the school forward.
- A leader who is skilled in monitoring and evaluating the quality of education and is able to create clear and robust action plans to ensure that all children reach their highest potential, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
- Someone with a passion for learning in the outdoors and who embraces it as a significant part of the whole school curriculum.
- An empathy and understanding that ensures each child, whatever their needs, reaches their full potential.
What the school offers its staff
- The committed support of the experienced governing body, the Local Authority, the active PTA, the local community and the wider partnership of Hexham schools.
- A school which is outward focused and is always looking to improve, enabling all to thrive.
- A close-knit supportive learning environment.
- A commitment to your continued professional development and that of your staff.
- A community that is open to change that improves the quality of education for our children and the lives of everyone within it.
- An inclusive school where the focus is on the development o
Further information about the job
What is special about Hexham First School:
- We are a thriving school in the local community.
- We believe that every child is unique, and we want to support everyone to grow well, flourish and live life in all its fullness.
- At Hexham First School we promote our core values which underpin how we learn in school. We believe in kindness, respect, ambition, resilience and independence.
- Our school is spacious with large grounds for outdoor learning with a particular specialism in Forest School.
- We believe that our school should serve its community by providing an education of the highest quality. This is reflected in our school motto, ‘Happy, healthy and aiming high’.
- We encourage all children to reach their full potential on their path as lifelong learners.
- We value parents as the first teachers of their children and welcome parents as partners in our school community.
- We have a dedicated, caring and highly skilled school team who get to know children and their families well, to support and nurture their learning journey.
- We provide equal opportunities for everybody regardless of individual differences.
- We respect, and are thankful for, the enriching environment in which we can all learn about the wider world.
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hexham First School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 82 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hexham First School website
- Email address
- admin@hexhamfirst.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01434 603467
Arranging a visit to Hexham First School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@hexhamfirst.co.uk.
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