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Headteacher

The Pilgrim School (A Church of England Primary With Nursery), Rochester, Kent, ME1 3LF

33 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  24 February 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  20 January 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 (Can be done as a job share): The role is fulltime or for a jobshare we would be able to accommodate 6 working days (39 hours) to ensure an overlap day for handovers and collaboration. There is some flexibility but this could be for example 19.5 for each of 2 headteachers.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £65,286 - £75,675
• Pay scale: L12 - L18

What skills and experience we're looking for

From a Strategic Perspective:

• Commitment to and understanding of the pursuit of excellence and how to move forward, continually raising standards of achievement, endeavour, behaviour and wellbeing for all stakeholders.
• Through strategic leadership, to maintain and develop further a culture in which all members of the school community are excited, engaged and motivated by learning.
• Experience and understanding of school improvement and the ability to develop and implement this with the effective involvement of all key stakeholders, including governors.
• Demonstrate commitment to ensure the Christian ethos and values of a Church School continue to be promoted and embedded.
• A commitment to the principles of safeguarding; promoting children’s welfare, diversity and inclusion.
• To be able to further develop the school as a hub of the local community.
• Embrace the use of ICT to support strategic school management and curriculum development.

• To engage in meaningful collaborations with colleagues for the benefit of all within the Trust.

From a Leadership and Management Perspective:

• To be able to inspire the school community to achieve the very best provision and outcomes for all pupils.
• To have the ability to develop and maintain a clear and coherent Christian vision for the school and to lead and motivate others to plan for, deliver and ‘live’ it.
• To be able to ensure rigorous and extensive monitoring, searching, analysis and self-challenge that results in exceptionally well-focused and successful school improvement within the school and in collaboration with the MAT schools.
• To have an ability to motivate staff across all experience levels and develop high performing teams, delegating appropriately.
• To have the drive, energy, perseverance and sensitivity to identify, anticipate and deliver required change successfully and to maintain continuous improvement.
• To be experienced in the robust application of performance management, staff professional development and learning improvement programmes.
• To have an understanding of financial management and planning with a proven ability to optimise the use of resources to support learning successfully.
• To have an ability to monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning in order to raise standards and maximise pupil progress.
• To successfully implement and monitor measures that promote and ensure the safeguarding of children.

What the school offers its staff

The Pilgrim Multi Academy Trust is seeking to appoint an inspirational individual or individuals to be our new Headteacher/s in September 2025. Someone who can embrace the embedded excellence and have the vision, confidence and drive to map out the next part of the journey for our flourishing school.

The successful candidate/s will join a team of highly skilled professionals who put the child at the core of all decision-making.

They will lead:

• a successful Character Education led curriculum and environment where attributes are recognised and valued.
• pupils who are proud of their school and are keen to talk and live out their vision and attributes in a positive way.

They will meet families who support and encourage the school to achieve highly.

They will be valued by an experienced and strategically place governance structure to ensure well-being and support for the journey ahead.

They will feel welcomed into a small, friendly group of existing Headteachers who along with the CEO will provide the support and supervision that a leader of a school deserves to have in place for them.

Flexible working opportunities

There is an option for this role to be a job-share to provide flexibility and if that was to be the case the Trust could provide six days of Headship. This would allow a weekly collaboration day, inset and staff meetings can be shared.

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

Please complete the online application.

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About The Pilgrim School (A Church of England Primary With Nursery)

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 227 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Pilgrim School (A Church of England Primary With Nursery) website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: pilgrimmat.office@pilgrim.medway.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01634 975766
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-pilgrim-school-a-church-of-england-primary-with-nursery (opens in new tab)

Following the relocation of our current Headteacher; The Trustees of The Pilgrim Multi Academy Trust are looking to appoint an effective and dynamic person or persons with a clear Christian vision for success; someone who will embrace and build on the ethos and many attributes of the community in order to continue the outstanding journey of Pilgrim.

The Pilgrim School a Church of England Primary School with Nursery is a popular, over-subscribed, one-form-entry school with an excellent reputation in its local and wider communities. Standards are consistently high and its wonderful staff are dedicated, highly skilled and are passionate about the children in their care. The pupils in return behave extremely well, developing a love of learning in their child-centred environment. The school is proud to have achieved the Ace School of Character Quality Mark Plus and all are proud to be Pilgrim!

The Trustees and Local Governors are extremely invested in the school and are highly strategic in their role, ensuring that a newly appointed Headteacher will be greatly supported. As part of a small, respected Church Trust, there are many opportunities to collaborate and work as part of a team where your contributions are valued and you can continually evolve your own practice.

Arranging a visit to The Pilgrim School (A Church of England Primary With Nursery)

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email pilgrimmat.office@pilgrim.medway.sch.uk.

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