Headteacher
Pikes Lane Primary School, Bolton, Lancashire, BL3 5HU28 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
31 March 2026 at 9am
Date listed
3 March 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 Monday-Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £77,924.00 - 90,255.00
Pay scale
- L18-L24A
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Place the quality of education at the centre of all decision-making
- Lead with integrity, visibility and high expectations
- Provide stability, clear direction and strong professional standards
- Champion inclusion and ensure disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils achieve well
- Develop and support staff, promoting wellbeing alongside accountability
- Work transparently and constructively with Governors and the Local Authority
- Demonstrate sound financial oversight and effective organisational leadership
What the school offers its staff
- Enthusiastic, welcoming children who want to succeed
- A committed and hardworking staff team
- An engaged and ambitious Governing Board determined to provide strong strategic support and challenge
- A supportive Local Authority
- A school rooted in its community, with significant potential for further development
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure Barring Service.
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 Pikes Lane Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 522 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Pikes Lane Primary School website
- Email address
- walkerj@pikes-lane.bolton.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01204 333633
“Together we can be the Best”
Pikes Lane CP School
Gibraltar Street, Deane, Bolton. BL3 5HU
Telephone: 01204 333633
Email: office@pikes-lane.bolton.sch.uk
"Pupils feel valued and are involved in all aspects of school life. They are happy and feel safe" Ofsted September 2023
"Staff have been supported effectively in the development of their subject knowledge to bring greater consistency to the quality of education experienced by pupils" Ofsted September 2023
Head Teacher
Group 3 NOR 516
Salary range L18 – 24A
Required for April 2024
Arranging a visit to Pikes Lane Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email walkerj@pikes-lane.bolton.sch.uk.
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