Headteacher
Thriftwood School, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8RW13 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
22 April 2025
Latest start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
12 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £79,474 - £93,400
Pay scale
- Leadership 20-27
Additional allowances
Headteacher's Residential Allowance £6,234pa
What skills and experience we're looking for
NPQH or working towards (essential)
Advanced qualification in autism in children & young people (desirable)
Experience of working with children with autism (essential)
What the school offers its staff
High quality professional development opportunities, including Challenge Partners
A range of exciting internal career opportunities
Challenging roles and recognition of achievement
A full Employee Assistance Programme including same-day GP appointments, physio & counselling
A motivational strategy towards both education and business
Headteacher involvement in wider decision-making
Teachers who stay in the profession
A strategic aim to ensure a fair work/life balance
A highly supportive organisational culture
A firm commitment to the strengths of equality and diversity
A sense of cohesion and belonging
A policy to raise matters of concern
Flexible working opportunities
We understand that not everyone wants to work full-time and that life sometimes gets in the way of work commitments. That’s why, at SEAX Trust, we have introduced a number of ways to get round this.
We have a firm belief that working more flexibly is the way forward and one of the ways to attract and retain the very best staff. We offer the right to request a change in your working pattern from the day you first start work; you can make up to two requests each year; we promise to consult you on our decision and we won’t ask you to explain how you think the change could work.
We know you have commitments to young children and elderly relatives and we don’t want this to get in the way of your career. We like to offer as many staff as we can the option of working from home, as a regular part of the job, or as and when they need to. We also offer carers an extra week’s unpaid leave each year.
We offer sabbaticals for staff development and training, job-shares, flexi-time and, if it’s possible, we’ll let you pop out to see your child’s Christmas Production, too.
We can’t promise that we’ll be able to meet your request, but we will if we can, and we want you to feel able to ask.
Talk to us at interview about your concerns and we’ll see what we can do.
Commitment to safeguarding
The SEAX Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The Headteacher will be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all children for whom they are responsible, or with whom they come into contact, in accordance with the Trust’s Safeguarding
Policy. The successful candidate will be required to complete a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) application, medical checks and references.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@seaxtrust.com
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Thriftwood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 19
- School size
- 251 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Thriftwood School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@seaxtrust.com
- Phone number
- 01245 963006
SEAX is a growing, special school multi-academy trust based in Essex. We currently comprise five schools, serving a range of pupils with either moderate learning, speech & language or SEMH difficulties.
SEAX is a truly great place to work, offering staff a total reward package, excellent CPD opportunities and outstanding support and guidance from highly experienced and dedicated practitioners.
If you would like the opportunity to progress your career with us, we would very much like to hear from you and you can contact us by emailing: jobs@seaxtrust.com
We look forward to meeting you soon.
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