53 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2026

  • Closing date

    9 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    17 November 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

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£73,105 - £84,699

What skills and experience we're looking for

As our next aspiring leader, you will be dedicated to providing the highest quality education and care for our children, staff, and wider community You will need to be passionate and share our school vision:

  • Inspire a passion and thirst for memorable and lifelong learning.
  • Provide our community with the best life chances to thrive and achieve.
  • Give us the knowledge, skills, and values to succeed.
  • Enable us to make a positive impact within the community and the wider world.
  • Ensure every child is successful at school and beyond.

While the progress and achievements of Swaythling Primary School are strong, we have high aspirations and we want you to build on the momentum and continue to drive our vision and ensure success for each and every child. You will need to share and demonstrate our school values: Teamwork, Honesty, Innovation, Never Giving Up and Kindness.

To support our diverse community, you will be a highly effective communicator and capable of engaging our children and wider community. You will have the ability to inspire trust and confidence, with the kindness and love that we have put at the centre of our school.

Your proven track record in driving improvement and achieving excellent outcomes in the primary phase will ensure that under your leadership our school continues to improve, and our children thrive and reach their maximum potential.

What the school offers its staff

  • The opportunity to work in an exciting learning environment, as part of a trust which includes primary, infants and nursery, special, junior, secondary and special schools, who all work together in genuine collaboration
  • A caring, friendly environment where there is a genuine commitment to raising standards of learning for all
  • The chance to make a real difference to the lives of our pupils and their families
  • A strong, professional team of enthusiastic staff to work alongside you within a supportive and constructive ethos where CPD is a very high priority.
  • Exceptional CPD and promotion opportunities made possible by our membership of the trust.

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.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

If you wish to have an informal discussion please contact Zoe Snow, Chair of Governors governor.zoe@swaythlingprimary.org.

Browse our website https://www.swaythlingprimary.net/

Please contact the School Business Manager, Mrs Anna Laycock, via email recruitment@swaythlingprimary.org if you would like to arrange a tour of the 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

This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Swaythling Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
209 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
School website
Swaythling Primary School website
Email address
recruitment@swaythlingprimary.org
Phone number
02380552252
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teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/swaythling-primary-school

We are proud to be an inclusive one-form community school in the multicultural and diverse ward of Swaythling. We are on the northern edge of Southampton, close to the University of Southampton, with great transport links and easily accessible within the city and from M27 and M3. We are a maintained school, part of the Aspire Community Trust, meaning we benefit from the close working partnerships across our family of schools, as well as from the local authority.

We are immensely proud of all that we have achieved in recent years, our rapid school improvement is a testament to the hard work and collaboration of the staff, governors, pupils, parents, and the wider community which has fostered a strong ‘Swaythling Primary family culture’.

Arranging a visit to Swaythling Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@swaythlingprimary.org.

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