Headteacher
Seabridge Primary School, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 3PJThis job expired on 6 May 2025
Start date details
Sept 2025 or Jan 2026
Closing date
6 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
29 April 2025
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, all year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L17 – L21 £73,819 - £81,441 Pay Award Pending
What skills and experience we're looking for
Seabridge Primary School is a welcoming and creative learning environment where curiosity thrives, and potential is nurtured. We believe in inspiring young minds, fostering a love for learning, and instilling high personal expectations, respect, and understanding for others.
We are seeking an exceptional Headteacher—a visionary leader with a deep commitment to education and a proven track record of delivering outstanding student outcomes. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, collaboration, and strategic vision at both school and Trust levels.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A proven track record of exceptional leadership in a primary school setting
- A passion for fostering a caring, positive, and inclusive learning environment
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- A strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion
Seabridge Primary, are dedicated to academic excellence, continuous improvement, and empowering students to dream big and achieve their fullest potential. With the right leadership, we believe there are no limits to what our students can accomplish.
If you are a passionate, driven, and inspiring leader ready to shape the future of education at Seabridge Primary School, we would love to hear from you.
Start date: 1st September 2025 or January 2026
AtSeabridge Primary School,we believe that a strong sense of self-esteem is the foundation for a happy and successful future. Our goal is to ensure that every child leaves us as a caring, confident, and adaptable individual, equipped with strong academic skills and well-developed social skills. We strive to prepare our pupils for the next phase of their education with resilience, enthusiasm, and a lifelong love of learning. Every child feels valued, and parents are welcomed as partners in their child's education.
We believe that the most effective learning happens when teachers and parents work together, fostering a genuine partnership that encourages children to take pride in their work, celebrate their achievements, and feel a deep sense of belonging within our school community.
We believe that everyone has the potential to be extraordinary!
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust are a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
We place high achievement at the heart of everything we do, and we are determined that no individual has their opportunities limited by their background, or by their ability. We are focused on harnessing the power of people to affect positive change for our children and young adults. We work closely with children, leaders, teachers and support teams, to create their individual best futures: one size fits one. Education should be an exciting space, buzzing with vibrancy, dynamism and unlimited potential. Innovation and entrepreneurialism fuel our passion, enabling creativity and re-conceptualisation to be agilely applied to context and circumstance
An excellent education, in a supportive environment, is what every student attending one of our academies will experience. Central to this is the support we provide to our staff teams, this enables them to continually develop their knowledge, practice and expertise by offering high quality training and research-based opportunities our colleagues are well motivated, highly valued, and incredibly driven professionals.
Although we are a family who work together to create brighter futures, each of our schools still keep their individual identity and uniqueness. This approach of earned autonomy ensures that integrity and transparency underpins everything that we do, with our Trust Board providing oversight, challenge and support. This support is then strengthened at school level through a system of Academy Councils who represent each school and provide local accountability.
We know that at primary school, the quality of teaching affects both children’s social behaviour and intellectual development. This age and stage of learning has a more powerful impact on children’s academic progress than any other educational sector. Home too has a vital part to play! - Recognised through extensive research, it is the importance of early experiences and the powerful combination of home, pre-school and primary school partnerships that set the foundations enabling our amazing children and pupils to succeed.
Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
Further information about the job
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.
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About Seabridge Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 456 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Seabridge Primary School website
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
We are very proud of our happy and safe school where we aim to ensure we serve our local community well by providing an education of the highest quality. With our motto ‘Working together to be the best we can’ we place a strong emphasis on ensuring every child is supported and challenged so that they can realise their full potential and flourish within a caring, stimulating and purposeful atmosphere. Children lie at the heart of everything we do and every decision within the school is made by firstly considering what is in the best interest of our children.
Seabridge Primary School is a unique and creative environment. We believe that our school is an inspiring place which energises learning and encourages children to develop an enquiring mind, a desire for knowledge, high personal expectations and understanding and respect for others. We recognise that strong self esteem is essential in enabling our children to lead happy and successful futures and we aim to ensure that our pupils leave us as caring, happy, confident and adaptable young people, equipped with good academic skills, an enthusiasm and passion to continue developing their learning and good social skills.
We believe we have a unique combination of features here at Seabridge Primary School which makes it a wonderful place to educate children, where all members of the community work in partnership to achieve the very best for every child. At Seabridge children feel valued and parents are welcomed as partners in their child’s education. The most effective education is achieved when teachers and parents work together in a genuine partnership which results in all children being proud of their work, personal achievements and their own school.
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