Headteacher
Newbridge Primary School, Bath, Somerset, BA1 3LL26 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
1 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 February 2026
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: Full time position
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18 to L24
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a Headteacher for Newbridge Primary School, Bath who will:
- Provide strong strategic and operational leadership, sustaining the school’s vision, ethos and drive for continuous improvement in partnership with governors, staff and the community.
- Champion a positive, inclusive and nurturing culture where every child is valued, respected and well prepared for the next stage of life.
- Ensure high-quality teaching, learning and curriculum design, enabling all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, to thrive.
- Lead a broad, balanced and coherent curriculum, using assessment effectively to identify gaps and improve outcomes.
- Model a robust safeguarding culture, ensuring pupils’ wellbeing, behaviour and safety are central to all practice and decision-making.
- Develop, motivate and retain a high-performing staff team through strong professional relationships and high-quality development.
- Manage people, systems and resources effectively, building strong partnerships and ensuring financial stability, accountability and statutory compliance.
- Work openly and transparently with governors, supporting them in their role of strategic oversight, accountability and challenge, and ensuring the school meets all statutory and regulatory requirements.
What the school offers its staff
In return, Newbridge Primary School, Bath offers:
- The opportunity to lead a thriving, ambitious and supportive school community in Bath, with respectful, kind and enthusiastic pupils.
- A dedicated, skilled and collaborative staff team, alongside engaged parents and carers.
- Strong support and fair challenge from an experienced and involved governing body.
- Access to local networks and partnerships for professional support, leadership development and collaboration.
- A school environment with extensive outdoor space, providing rich opportunities to enhance the curriculum, promote wellbeing and enrich learning.
- The chance to make a real impact on pupils’ lives and the wider local education system.
Further information about the job
Visits to the School
We warmly welcome and encourage prospective candidates to visit Newbridge Primary School before applying. This will give you the opportunity to meet staff and pupils, tour the school and get a sense of our vibrant community. To arrange a visit, please contact: applications@newbridge.bathnes.sch.uk or call 01225 421675.
Visit Dates:
Friday 6 Feb 9.30am & 3.45pm
Wednesday 11 Feb 1.30pm & 3.45pm
Wednesday 25 Feb 9.30am & 11.00am
Friday 27 Feb 1.30pm & 3.45pm
How to Apply
To apply for the position of Headteacher, please submit a completed application form (CVs will not be accepted).
Please send your completed application to: applications@newbridge.bathnes.sch.uk
For an informal and confidential conversation about the role, please contact: applications@newbridge.bathnes.sch.uk
Closing date for applications: 1 March 2026 at 23:00
Interview Date: 17 & 18 March 2026
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 Checks
-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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Newbridge Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 402 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Newbridge Primary School website
- Email address
- applications@newbridge.bathnes.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01225 421675
Our wonderful maintained primary school in Bath & North East Somerset is looking for an experienced leader who is seeking a new opportunity or considering a move to the beautiful World Heritage City of Bath. We are inviting applications for a Headteacher who will lead our two-form entry primary school, with vision, integrity and care, providing strong strategic and operational leadership for our thriving, ambitious and supportive school community.
Newbridge Primary School is a two form entry maintained primary school on the western outskirts of Bath, set within exceptional grounds, serving over 400 children aged 4–11. In their December 2024 report, Ofsted described us as “a caring and welcoming school that puts pupils at the heart of all it does.” Newbridge is a place where experienced staff, wonderful children and a supportive wider community work together to create a genuinely positive and nurturing environment.
School demographics show 12.8% SEN support, 3% EHC Plans, 10% Pupil Premium and 7.4% EAL.
Arranging a visit to Newbridge Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email applications@newbridge.bathnes.sch.uk.
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