Headteacher
The Gainsborough Parish Church Primary School, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 2LN8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
11 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 June 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: 1.0 FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £65,010.00 - £75,331.00 FTE
Pay scale
- L14 - L20
What skills and experience we're looking for
Could you make a difference to the lives of our learners?
Gainsborough Parish C of E school is a vibrant, inclusive and aspirational primary school in the heart of Gainsborough. With 292 children on roll, the school serves a wide demographic of families within its close community.
We are seeking to appoint a forward thinking, dynamic and talented Headteacher from January 2025, to lead Gainsborough Parish on its improvement journey. We are looking for someone with commitment to driving the school forward, upholding and maintaining the distinctive Christian ethos of our school. The appointed person will be someone who will lead our passionate, dedicated team of professionals offering a broad and exciting curriculum that encourages every child to find and fulfil their potential, both academically and beyond the classroom.
The successful candidate will be someone who is passionate about working with families from all backgrounds, believing in the fundamental importance and value of education in changing young people’s lives. As well as having a day-to-day oversight of the leadership and management, and operational organisation of the school, you will work closely with the Trust Education Development team to develop a creative, happy, successful and ambitious school.
We are on a very exciting journey and are looking forward to having to right candidate join our family. We are looking to our new headteacher to inspire us, empower our pupils and staff to ‘journey together with hope and aspiration’.
We look forward to hearing from you.
What the school offers its staff
At Parish, we value each person as they are, seeing every member of our school family as a precious, unique individual and treating them with dignity. Seeking first to understand through the building of relationships, we live in a community of hope. We aspire to enable each person to be a curious learner, inspired to develop the knowledge and wisdom to make the world a better place. We strive to encourage all to fulfil their God-given potential, having a confidence in transformation for the better.
As a Church of England school, we strive to achieve excellence within a Christian context, based on the firm foundations of shared Christian values. Our ‘Core Four’ values interweave with our school vision to reflect who we are. They are Dignity, Community, Hope and Wisdom.
Our inspiring and relevant curriculum based around the ‘Core Four’ encourages independent learning skills which prepare the children for life in the 21st century.
The staff here at Parish work tirelessly to ensure our school’s curriculum and pastoral care unlocks potential and provides pupils, families and staff with the necessary skills they will need to succeed. Progress for all pupils is relentlessly pursued. In addition to the rigorous pursuit of significant achievements across the curriculum, children are encouraged to develop their skills and talents in art, music and sport, and their awareness of equality, fairness and a sense of belonging.
The school takes great pride in working at the very heart of the community and welcoming everyone who steps through the doors here at Parish.
Commitment to safeguarding
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023, please be advised that if shortlisted, we will carry out internet searches to support our commitment to safer recruitment. Please note that the purpose of this is to identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with applicants at interview. Internet searches will be carried out by someone who is not directly involved in the recruitment process and only relevant information will be shared with the interview panel.
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About The Gainsborough Parish Church Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 298 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- sam.eden@laat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 07918 858234
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