Headteacher
Iveshead School, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 9DB39 days remaining to apply
Start date details
August 2026
Closing date
9 January 2026 at 9am
Date listed
1 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L24 - L29
Additional allowances
L24 - L29
Headteacher job summary
We are delighted to be appointing an experienced aspirational leader to join our trust secondary leadership team as Headteacher of Iveshead School at this very exciting time for Mowbray Education Trust. We are a family of schools dedicated to providing children with a first-class education. Based in Leicestershire and reaching far beyond, our settings support pupils throughout their education journey, providing them with the skills and knowledge to thrive and make a positive impact on society. Mowbray Education Trust is a successful and growing multi-academy trust with 535 staff in total, 201 of whom are teachers, and just over 3300 pupils.
Our vision is to deliver first-class teaching and learning with integrity. This means that every young person attending our schools, regardless of background or ability, receives a first-class education. Our common values of inclusivity, aspiration and collaboration underpin all that we do and ensure we hold one another accountable for delivering an outstanding education experience.
The Headteacher of Iveshead will play a crucial role in supporting the development of our secondary phase, working collaboratively across the secondary leadership team within the culture of the Trust and sharing accountability for the performance and success of the secondary schools. The successful candidate will be an inspirational leader who has the creativity, courage and commitment to enable staff and students to achieve and who has a track record of leading change and improvement.
Much of our most recent success, we attribute to identifying, attracting and retaining people with humility, warmth and the potential to be brilliant. If you are an inspirational leader with an ability to motivate others to develop a culture of high expectations and are interested in taking a key role, not only in our Trust, but in shaping the future of education, we can’t wait to hear from you.
If you would like to have an initial discussion about the role with Louise Lee (CEO), please contact us via futuretalent@mowbrayeducation.org.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed on Thursday 4th December between 9:00am and 12:00pm and on Tuesday 9th December between 12:00pm and 3:00pm. Please contact us to arrange. If these dates and times aren’t convenient please contact us and we can arrange an alternative.
Closing Date: 9:00am, Friday 9th January 2026
Successful Applicants advised of the interview process by: 4:00pm, Friday 9th January 2026
Selection process: Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th January 2026
Mowbray Education Trust reserves the right to close adverts early if sufficient applications are received.
Mowbray Education Trust embraces and welcomes diversity and equality.
Mowbray Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working within the Trust to share this commitment. All roles are subject to full pre-employment safeguarding checks, including an Enhanced DBS with Barred List check.
Mowbray Education Trust ~ Children First
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Iveshead School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post requires a criminal background check via the disclosure procedure. The successful applicant will therefore be subject to an Enhanced DBS.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Iveshead School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1000 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Iveshead School website
Iveshead School is for students aged 11 to 19 years based in Shepshed on an extremely well resourced campus. We joined The Mowbray Education Trust in December 2022. Mowbray Education Trust is a family of schools with the shared belief that every child is deserving of
a first-class education, regardless of background or ability. Driven by this ethos, the Trust strives to deliver first-class teaching and learning with integrity. Students and teachers benefit from the Trust culture which promotes an aspirational, open and collaborative approach to learning, enabling each student and colleague to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We have built on the reputation and results we have achieved in recent years and continue to provide a caring place of learning for our students. Here they develop the skills and confidence they need to make their way through to the next stage of their lives whether that is higher education, an apprenticeship or employment. The School provides a calm and purposeful learning environment (Ofsted, 2022).
We currently have over 900 students on roll and are growing. We are a popular school in the local area and our 2023 intake is likely to be oversubscribed. Our Sixth Form provision is also growing and attracts students from the local area, not just those who have completed their GCSEs with us.
The character of our school can be defined by our three core values - ‘respect’, ‘enrich’, ‘succeed’. We offer a supportive and welcoming community environment with respect for all, a dedicated staff and a strong blend of activities, which create an enriching and successful education for all students at Iveshead.
We have two specialist units within our school offering dedicated provision for students with SEMH and Autism. Our latest Ofsted Inspection reported that students with specialist educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) enjoy being part of this inclusive school.
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