Headteacher
King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3SX8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Group 7 Salary Range (L33-L39, £109,275 -£125,263) subject to further negotiation for an experienced outstanding candidate
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
- provide strategic and visionary leadership to ensure that the school builds on its current strengths and successes
- be creative, enthusiastic and passionate about teaching and learning
- be a strong, visible leader of its high calibre staff and students
They will have significant experience at senior leadership level in secondary education in a large, high-performing selective, non-selective or independent school and will continue to promote the school’s ethos of intellectual challenge and rigour, whilst nurturing a philosophy of individuality and inclusiveness.
What the school offers its staff
Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Enhanced maternity/paternity pay arrangements - the school offers additional support to staff via its family friendly policies
Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 support line offering a range of practical and emotional help
Further details about the role
Funding Status – State, Single Academy
Number on roll: 1138
Year 7 to 11: 751 (boys)
Sixth form 387: (mixed)
King Edward VI Grammar School, one of the top performing state schools in the country, wishes to recruit a dynamic, inspirational and committed Headteacher. KEGS is a historic, thriving, inclusive and forward-thinking selective grammar school, which has a unique place in the community of Chelmsford, Essex. The school is a genuine learning environment that believes in team effort and works in partnership to bring out the best in individual students and staff. The school’s aim is to continue to be a centre of academic excellence whilst offering a diverse range of extra-curricular activities including many types of sport, music, drama, the CCF and the DofE award.
If you believe you have the experience and the ability to lead our community, the Governing Board would be delighted to hear from you.
Commitment to safeguarding
King Edward VI Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to satisfy an enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS.) King Edward VI Grammar School is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@kegs.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1134 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@kegs.org.uk
King Edward VI Grammar School is a selective boys' state school with a mixed Sixth Form and an exceptional academic and extra-curricular reputation based in Chelmsford. As a school specifically providing specialist education to very able young people, there is a strong focus on academic achievement, with the vast majority of students (both those boys who join in Year 7, and students, including girls, who join for the sixth form) going on to top universities. There is a serious work ethic at KEGS which derives from highly motivated students and dedicated staff. Recent results have put us near the top of national GCSE and A level rankings, and 23 students who left us in Summer 2019 gained places at Oxford or Cambridge and a further 23 went on to study medicine at university. However, league tables are not our guiding principle – we value breadth of study as well. We also focus significant effort on the progress of students who may find a particular subject area more challenging than others, and we have an extensive programme of mentor support.
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