Headteacher - Junior School
Robin Hood Junior School, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 1RL5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
5 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L18 to L24 (£79,630 to £90,694)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a headteacher who:
•is dynamic and innovative with a proven track record of effective leadership and school improvement;
•has a passion for teaching and learning with high expectations of staff and pupils;
•will inspire, challenge and support the pupils, staff, parents and wider community;
•has excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills;
•is committed to further developing relationships across our local network;
•uses research findings to develop evidence-based practice and bring about continuous and sustainable improvement.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
•pupils who are enthusiastic and highly motivated with a love of learning;
•an established staff who are passionate about continued professional learning and committed to supporting and developing the school;
•a supportive and involved community;
•an excellent environment, including a purpose built, popular library and a class cookery base, providing real scope for learning;
•an effective, fully supportive and active governing body;
•a healthy and well managed budget;
•an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of our pupils at Robin Hood Junior School;
•a supportive personal and professional developmental package.
Flexible working opportunities
Further details about the role
Due to the retirement of our long serving and very well respected Headteacher, Robin Hood Junior School is looking for a forward thinking, motivational leader to build on our current successes and lead the school into its next exciting phase. The successful applicant will take up post from the start of the Autumn Term, 2025 or earlier if circumstances allow.
Robin Hood Junior School continued to be judged as Good in our latest Ofsted Inspection in December 2022. Ofsted reported that "Pupils are delighted to be a part of this school. They see it as a warm, welcoming place where they feel that they belong. Pupils said it is like being part of a big family. Pupils are kept safe."
Our dedicated and professional team of staff and governors are committed to continual improvement and to providing an outstanding educational experience for all pupils.
We are proud of the school’s achievements and its standing in the local community. This is an opportunity to build on our strong foundations and to further develop our school ethos.
Please read through the attached Application Pack and call our school office to arrange for a tour. We look forward to welcoming you.
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 terry.rollings@forschoolseducation.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Robin Hood Junior School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 360 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Robin Hood Junior School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- terry.rollings@forschoolseducation.co.uk
- Phone number
- 07917 080205
Robin Hood Juniors is a strong and resilient community that thrives on the support of parents and families; local networks and neighbours.
We seek to create a safe, caring and happy environment in which all pupils are involved and can thrive personally, socially and academically and safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do. We work in partnership with parents to give children the best possible chance to succeed.
We are community co-educational school for girls and boys aged from 7 to 11. We have up to 360 children on role, with three classes in each year group. Many children transfer to us from Robin Hood Infant School and we work closely with them to make sure this is a smooth transition. Our Year 6 pupils transfer to High Schools across the borough and in neighbouring boroughs.
We are a diverse community with over a third of our pupils speaking another language as well as English and around a quarter being entitled to Pupil Premium Grant. Around 10% of our pupils receive support for a Special Educational Need or Disability. The inclusiveness and diversity of Robin Hood Juniors is very special. We look forward to meeting you.
Arranging a visit to Robin Hood Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email terry.rollings@forschoolseducation.co.uk.
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