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  • Job start date

    1 April 2020

  • Closing date

    20 January 2020 at 12am (midnight)

  • Date listed

    6 January 2020

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full-time equivalent salary

Lead Practitioners range 9 to Lead Practitioners range 15, £49,780 to £57,700

Headteacher job summary

St Andrew’s CE School is a friendly and welcoming school at the heart of the rural community serving the village and surrounding area. Applications are invited for the post of Headteacher with responsibility for the day-to-day leadership and management of the school.

This is a great opportunity to become a Headteacher in a village primary school with wonderful children in a beautiful part of Dorset. We are at an exciting period in our long history. There will be considerable support and collaboration with the other schools and leaders across the schools in the Trust including providing some of the central functions so that you can focus on the quality of teaching and learning and school improvement.

You will be working with the Trust, School Headteachers, the Local Governing Body, staff, children and parents to ensure excellence and a high quality education for all.

St Andrew’s CE School, is a popular Church of England School in the Diocese of Salisbury that welcomes those of all faiths and of none. The Shaftesbury area is one of the best places to live in Britain. There are easy road and direct rail links to London, Bath, Bristol, Exeter and the glorious Dorset coast and countryside. It is a great area in which to live, offering something for everyone.

The successful candidate will:
• Have a passion for education and making a difference to children’s lives
• Have the ability to lead and shape the vision of the School and the Trust
• Have the ability to support, challenge and inspire our children, encouraging them to achieve the best they can through the promotion of outstanding teaching and learning
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to celebrate and promote high quality teaching and learning
• Have a positive and optimistic approach; be proactive and confident
• Be able to build relationships quickly
• Have a real interest in educational issues, approaches and alternatives from around the world
• Use resources, intellect, creativity and innovation to be successful
• Have the ability to be a team player and leader who will go the extra mile to support children and families
• Be committed to partnership, collaboration and sharing

Our values and ethos focuses on developing a love of learning, high achievement both personally and academically which comes from the tremendous work of all our staff and the great achievements of our children.

The School has an absolute commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal record check via the DBS. The Trust values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding responsibilities associated with this role will include engagement in regulatory activity, such as administering first aid or supporting an upset child. It will have contact with young people on a day-to day basis. SAST is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will meet the person specification and is subject to an enhanced DBS and Children’s Barred List check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

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About St Andrew's Church of England Primary School

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
View all Primaryjobs
School size
84 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11

St Andrew’s is a small church school situated in the heart of the delightful Dorset village of Fontmell Magna. Families come to us from Shaftsbury and many of the surrounding villages. In June 2019 the school become an academy and joined the Sherborne Area Schools’ Trust (SAST). We enjoy good relationships with other trust schools and benefit from working in collaboration with them.

Being a small primary school allows us to fully embrace our community, coming here is like being part of an extended family. Our connection with village life, the church and our families is strong and we flourish because of this joined up approach. Our pupils BELIEVE that all things are possible and because of our belief in ourselves, each other and God we THRIVE, LEARN and SHINE together.

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