Headteacher
Low Furness CofE Primary School, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0TAThis job expired on 5 January 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
5 January 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
8 December 2023
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: currently with 0.1FTE teaching commitment
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L11 - L16
What skills and experience we're looking for
Low Furness is a small, happy, successful primary school in rural south Cumbria, with strong links to the local church and a central role in its community. Our long-serving head will retire at the end of this academic year and we are excited to recruit a new Headteacher who will bring fresh energy and ideas to the school.
We are looking for:
- A warm, insightful, communicative leader who can build on the school’s traditions
- A new influx of energy and ideas that will take us to the next level
- An inspiring leader of collective worship
- A tactful builder of trust and shared understanding
- A firm driver of assessment, discussion, reflection and improvement
- The ability to articulate a Christian ethos and apply it in every activity of the school
Aspiring and existing heads are invited to apply. We especially hope to find a good team leader who shares the school’s ideal of a broad, holistic education, and who values happiness, resilience and social / emotional development as well as academic success.
What the school offers its staff
- Great pupils
- Experienced and enthusiastic colleagues
- Engaged and thoughtful governing board
- A light and airy modern building in good repair
- Excellent grounds and facilities
- Good working links with nearby schools
- Supportive parent group
- Solid financial footing including generous grant income
- Full support for continuing professional development
- Good admin and IT support
- Chicken coop and chickens in good condition
- A great place to live, with fells, lakes and beaches all around
- A serious commitment to staff quality of life
Further details about the role
- Role: Head Teacher with 0.1 FTE teaching at present
- Closing date: 5 January 2024
- Interview dates: 24 and 25 January 2024
- Commencement: 1 September 2024
Commitment to safeguarding
Low Furness CE Primary School is committed to the safeguarding of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An online search will be carried out on shortlisted candidates, as directed in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023. The successful candidate will be appointed on the completion of an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Government’s Safer Recruitment guidelines, and on receipt of professional references.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Low Furness CofE Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 136 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Low Furness CofE Primary School website
- Email address
- admin@low-furness.cumbria.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01229 588078
Low Furness is a small, happy Church of England Primary School in rural south Cumbria. It combines high academic standards with a broad determination to teach the whole child. We prize emotional resilience, social confidence, self awareness and spiritual development just as highly as academic success, and we believe that happy enthusiastic children will always learn better.
Arranging a visit to Low Furness CofE Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@low-furness.cumbria.sch.uk.
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