Headteacher
St Martin's Garden Primary School, Bath, Somerset, BA2 2UN41 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 April 2025
Closing date
5 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 November 2024
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: 32 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L12 - L18
What skills and experience we're looking for
Headteacher – St Martin’s Garden Primary School (with Margaret Coates Centre)
Salary L12-18
From 21st April 2025
This is an exciting opportunity for an existing headteacher or deputy headteacher looking for the next step in their career. We are looking for an inspirational, pupil-focused individual who will lead St Martin’s Garden Primary School in the next stage of its improvement journey and be a committed member of the Extended Leadership Team within a growing Trust.
Palladian Academy Trust and St Martin’s Garden are committed to the continued improvement of the quality of education in our schools and ultimately on excellent outcomes, both academically and more widely for our pupils. The new headteacher at St Martin’s Garden will be at the heart of this work and will work closely with the Trust and school leadership teams, wider colleagues, families, the Local Governing Committee and of course the pupils to achieve our vision of excellent and equitable opportunities so everyone can flourish.
St Martin’s Garden Primary is a vibrant and exciting place to learn and work, situated at the heart of the community in Bath. The school is on a rapid improvement journey and after leadership support from one of our Executive Headteachers, the time is right for us to find a substantive Headteacher to build on these strong foundations and lead the next stage of improvement.
The school has a SEND Resource Base, the Margaret Coates Centre, providing specialist teaching for 34 pupils alongside the mainstream school for pupils.
We are looking for an inspirational leader to continue this journey for the school, building on the strong work of the leadership team to secure the best possible outcomes for the pupils.
The ideal candidate will be an ambitious, forward-thinking professional with a track record of successful school improvement leadership within the primary age range.
Palladian Academy Trust is a mixed Trust of both church and community schools, established in 2016 as a not-for- profit charity, with children at the heart of everything it does. We currently serve just under 4000 pupils. The Trust is a learning organisation, where the learning of all children and adults is valued and continually promoted.
We can offer the following benefits to becoming part of our team:
- A commitment to national teacher terms and conditions under the Burgundy Book
- The opportunity to work with our amazing pupils in a fantastic local community and be part of a wider group within a locality based and well-regarded Trust.
- A commitment to the professional development of every colleague
- No performance related pay and access to a personal development appraisal process with the single objective of every colleague being able to ‘flourish in their role’
- Partnership working with a strong Central Team providing expertise in school improvement, HR, operations and finance
- Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Scheme
- Vouchers for flu jabs and eye tests
- A realistic and compassionate understanding that all our colleagues are balancing home and professional lives.
Equity
We will consider applications on merit respecting all nine protected characteristics.
If you would like a confidential conversation about the role, please contact our CEO, Donna Tandy (d.tandy@palladianacademytrust.com)
If you would like to arrange a visit to the schools, please contact our Director of Education, Lisa Pollard (l.pollard@palladianacademytrust.com)
Recruitment dates:
Closing date : 5th February 2025
Interviews: 10th and 11th February 2025
Palladian Academy Trust and St Martin’s Garden Primary are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate is required for this post prior to commencement.
What the school offers its staff
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they:
- Have a passion and drive for everyone to flourish.
- Have the drive and resilience to lead continuous school improvement.
- Display integrity in dealing with the school community.
- Challenge and empower staff to be the best they can be.
- Will develop and sustain a learning culture and for all across our school.
- Will foster young people’s enjoyment of learning whilst ensuring high levels of achievement and academic rigour, both in the mainstream and resource base.
- Will continue to develop the respectful and inclusive ethos of our school.
- Have a proven track record of showing swift impact against improvement priorities.
- Will recognise changing vulnerabilities and priorities in a school and do what needs to be done to support them and ensure pupil’s and colleagues succeed.
- Have consistently high expectations to improve outcomes for all our children and colleagues.
- Are honest, approachable, adaptable, resilient, patient, motivated and an excellent communicator who can demonstrate that they work with integrity and respect for all
- Have excellent organisational skills and enjoy the challenges faced in a primary school.
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.
About St Martin's Garden Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 203 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- HR@palladianacademytrust.com
Arranging a visit to St Martin's Garden Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@palladianacademytrust.com.
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