Headteacher
St Helena School, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3LE8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
27 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 100% FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L29 - L35
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
We are seeking an experienced and inspirational leader to take the school into its next phase of development. You will provide strategic leadership and direction for the school, ensuring that all activities within the school serve the vision, strategic direction and priorities outlined by the Trust and the Local Governance Committee.
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Working in partnership with the Trust, Local Governance Committee, pupils, staff, parents and other stakeholders to instil the ethos and values which underpin all activities within the school
- To regularly monitor and evaluate the performance of the school and respond and report to the CEO and Local Governance Committee
- Organise, implement and monitor the curriculum and its assessment
- Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching, and standards of learning and achievement of all pupils in the school
- Secure excellent attendance for all pupils, through rigorous implementation of the school’s attendance policy and effective use of intervention strategies
- Ensure high standards of pupil behaviour and courteous conduct in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy
- Ensure the effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements, through rigorous implementation of the school’s safeguarding policy and promotion of a robust safeguarding culture
(The full details can be found in the attached Job Outline and Person Specification).
We're looking for you if you have:
- A passion for high quality inclusive teaching
- High expectations of every member of the school community
- Experience, skills, insights and determination to lead a thriving school
- The ability to inspire and influence others - with and beyond schools - to believe in the fundamental importance of education in young people’s lives and to promote the value of education
What the school offers its staff
Why work for The Sigma Trust, St Helena School?
We can offer you:
- A Competitive Salary
- Robust school CPD training programme that enables you to flourish
- Opportunities to work with colleagues across the Trust to share resources, ideas and build collaborative relationships
Employee benefits include:
- Excellent pension scheme
- A Health Cash Plan
- Free membership to Perkbox, offering discounts and savings
- Employee Assistance Programme providing free and confidential advice
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye care plan
- Annual free flu vaccination
- Discounted gym membership at selected local gyms
- Discounted cinema tickets
- Eligible for Blue Light Card
Please note that an integration period applies to all new staff joining the Trust, to support introduction into the organisation.
Further details about the role
Additional Information:
For additional information about the Trust and this school, please visit our website www.sigmatrust.org.uk
Please note that only fully completed application forms will be accepted and any CV’s and accompanying covering letters will be disregarded. A Notes for Applicants document is attached for further information.
- Closing date: Sunday 27th April 2025.
- Shortlisting will take place w/c Monday 28th April 2025
- Interviewing will take place on Thursday 8th May and Friday 9th May 2025
The Sigma Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.
The Sigma Trust is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristics. This is embedded in our vision ‘To Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts’, where we believe we are strong and more successful working together, creating a workplace which celebrates diversity.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Helena School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 995 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Helena School website
- Email address
- recruitment@sigmatrust.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01255 750913
Arranging a visit to St Helena School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@sigmatrust.org.uk.
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