Headteacher

St Francis CofE Primary School, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4SU

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  20th April 2026

• Closing date

  5 December 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  21 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: An ISR within the Group 3 Headteacher range
• Additional allowances:

  As well as offering great schools to work in, wonderful children to work with, and fantastic colleagues to work alongside, our Trust is committed to providing colleagues with other benefits that make your employment with Kernow Learning the best it can be. We offer:

  A competitive salary and membership of the Teachers' Pension Scheme ; A real commitment to wellbeing, including access to 24/7 wellbeing services and employee assistance programme ; Access to discounts with national and local retailers and service providers ; A range of CPD and training opportunities, both internally and externally, learning from local and national speakers and specialists to support your professional growth ; The support and skills of our networks of colleagues both within our schools and our Shared Services teams

Headteacher job summary

Are you our next Headteacher Superhero? We are looking or an incredible school leader who has the passion, enthusiasm, and drive to lead our school through its next chapter. You will join our Trust and, in particular, our school at a pivotal time; a time to take our school to the next level, ensuring that the foundations are strong from which to flourish. About our trust Kernow Learning is a primary specialist academy trust of 21 schools in Cornwall. All our schools celebrate their individuality whilst holding our trust’s shared values, mission, and philosophy close to their heart. Our peer-led school improvement model sets Headteachers as the lead school improvers in their own school but supported by a Trust-wide team of specialists leading networks of subject and other leaders. Additionally, our schools benefit from the expertise of colleagues from our English Hub and Teaching School Hub, as well as our status as an Associate College of the National Institute of Teaching. About our school St Francis CoE Primary School is a 2FE Church school located in Falmouth. Our school’s Christian distinctiveness is central to everything that we do, and we celebrate our wonderful relationship with both our local churches and the wider Diocese of Truro. St Francis Primary is a school that is loved by its community, and our new Headteacher will need to make sure that the community remains at the heart of our school by leading with love. About you You will be a phenomenal school leader. A leader that is able to quickly establish themselves as a team player; a leader who is a motivator with the ability to forge strong relationships and provide clear direction in order to secure success for everyone. You will dream big and achieve big, by opening up futures for all of our children. Our next Headteacher will be an experienced school leader and teacher with a demonstrable record of creating a culture where everyone can succeed. You will be committed to closing the disadvantage gap and creating an environment where all children, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, thrive. The successful candidate will want to make a difference; they will have a passion for ensuring that our Christian ethos is what drives the success of our school and makes it a place of flourishing. If you think that you can bring brilliance to St Francis, and lead our school with both love and rigour, then we would love to hear from you. We’d also welcome you to visit our school and/or to have an informal conversation with our Deputy CEO, Matt Middlemore. If you’d like to arrange either, or both, a visit or a conversation with Matt, please call our HR team on 01637 303106 or email hr@kernowlearning.co.uk. Kernow Learning is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and follows the Safer Recruitment process. The successful applicant will be expected to share this commitment and will be subject to checks including an enhanced DBS and prohibition checks. An ‘online presence’ check will also be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About St Francis CofE Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 407 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Francis CofE Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-francis-cofe-primary-school-tr11-4su

Our vision here at St Francis is every person matters, every person helps, every person succeeds, so that each of us can live "life in all its fulness" (John 10:10). This embedded vision for our school ensures that, even though we are a large school, we maintain a caring, family feel in which children are happy and flourish.
As a Church school, our teaching encompasses our core Christian values of Courage, Peace, Thankfulness, Trust, Friendship and Hope. These values complement our Trust’s Core Shared Values and our Trust philosophy of ‘work hard, be honest & help others’.
Our curriculum is enriched with a range of visits and visitors, and we aspire to build our children’s ‘cultural capital’ by exposing them to range of experiences whilst at our school. Children have opportunities to den build, visit heritage sites, rock pool, experience water sports, camp overnight, go down into a mine, challenge themselves on an adventure residential, go to the theatre, visit a city outside of Cornwall, go to the Science Museum, visit a University, and so much more. These opportunities provide fun and memorable learning experiences, whilst demonstrating to our children all the opportunities that are afforded to them. The sky really is the limit and we want our children to leave us believing they can achieve.

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