Headteacher
Tymberwood Academy, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4BN14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025 or January 2026
Closing date
14 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £75,675.00 - £87,651.00 Annually (Actual) L18 - L24
Headteacher job summary
Are you an experienced educational leader looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our children?
Tymberwood Academy is a thriving two form entry school, with Nursery, which serves the community of Gravesend in Kent. It is a real ‘hidden gem’ as behind its small, unassuming entrance in a residential road, lies our large school site with expansive and attractive grounds.
Our children are at the heart of everything we do, and we believe in nurturing the unique talents of each and every one of them through our mission statement of ‘Nurturing Potential, Inspiring a Generation, Excellence for All’. We are passionate about fostering a lifelong love of learning in our children and preparing them for a bright future.
The staff at Tymberwood are approachable, supportive, and dedicated to ensuring that children have the best possible start in life. We celebrate individuality and strive to make every child’s educational journey a positive and inspirational experience. Our inclusive classrooms support children of all abilities, and we are proud to have a Specialist Resource Provision unit for children with physical disabilities.
We whole-heartedly believe that enticing children to read and building a passion for reading is essential in laying the strong foundations needed for all areas and aspects of learning. We have a broad, balanced and community-relevant curriculum. This is built around three main pillars of Skills and Knowledge, Enriching Opportunities and Behaviours for Life. We want our children to acquire targeted and transferable skills whilst learning critical and broad banks of knowledge which allow them to fully prepare for the next stages of their learning journey.
Distinctive enrichment opportunities are woven throughout the school; they explicitly link to learning where cultural awareness and capital is built upon and solidified. This also includes our 11 promises of experiences that the children will have before they leave our school (fondly known as 11 before 11). We believe that preparing pupils for the next stage of their learning, and for a place in modern Britain, is about developing the whole child with character, virtues and values to withstand the winds of change and positively impact on society.
What we are looking for in our next Headteacher:
We are seeking an outstanding senior leader with the passion, drive, and enthusiasm to build on our strengths. You will lead, motivate, develop, and inspire a team of staff and governors who are committed to providing pupils with a wide range of enriching experiences. We welcome applications from existing headteachers and talented deputy headteachers who have the knowledge and expertise to help us raise outcomes and consistently deliver excellence.
You will have a clear understanding of what it takes for a school to maintain the highest standards of teaching and learning, whilst having the expertise to embed a culture of continuous improvement. Additionally, you will demonstrate the ability to manage, prioritise, and organise your workload, show flexibility and resilience, and recognise the need for pastoral care for all members of the school community.
Community engagement and outreach are important at Tymberwood, and we seek a headteacher who will work to further raise the school's profile in the local community to improve family engagement and pupil attendance.
A commitment to supporting wellbeing and mental health is essential.
We are a caring employer who invests in the future of our employees, as only through their excellence can we deliver excellence for the children and families we serve. For more information about the school, please visit our website - Tymberwood Primary Academy.
As a member of REAch2 Academy Trust, a national family of primary academies, Tymberwood is committed to raising standards and achieving excellence for all pupils, regardless of their background or circumstances. The Trust provides a strong culture of collaboration and support, with high expectations for staff and pupils alike.
Tymberwood Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory written references.
To see more information about the school, please visit our website Tymberwood Academy.
The Role:
We are seeking a dynamic and inspirational leader to join our team. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of excellence in educational leadership, with experience in managing highly effective teams. You will be committed to providing every child with an exceptional educational offer, ensuring they are supported, challenged, and inspired to reach their full potential.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, motivate, and inspire a dedicated team of educators
Drive excellence in teaching and learning
Foster strong relationships with parents and the wider community
Ensure the delivery of an exciting, broad, and engaging curriculum
Uphold and promote our core values: High expectations, Integrity, Respect, Resilience and Determination.
Requirements:
Proven track record of excellence in educational leadership
Experience in managing highly effective teams
Commitment to providing exceptional educational opportunities for all children
Relational and proactive approach with parents and the community
Ability to inspire, challenge, and motivate
To arrange an informal discussion please contact Louise Johnson, Deputy Director of Education using louise.johnson@reach2.org
The application process and timetable:
Join REAch2 Academy Trust, one of the UK's largest primary academy trusts, with a mission to unlock the potential of every child, regardless of their background. Here’s why joining our team can be an exciting and fulfilling career choice:
- Excellence & Development: We prioritise high standards and offer extensive professional development and career growth opportunities.
- Supportive & Collaborative: Be part of a strong, collaborative community of over 60 schools where every voice is valued, and best practices are shared.
- Well-being Focus: We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer robust well-being support for all staff.
- Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives strengthen our schools.
- Innovation & Impact: Bring creativity to the classroom and make a real difference in children’s lives.
- Making a difference: Working with REAch2 means contributing to something bigger than yourself. You’ll be helping to shape the lives of young learners, making a meaningful impact on communities and future generations.
- Join us to grow your career, collaborate with passionate educators, and make a lasting impact on future generations.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support your career and well-being:
- Generous Annual Leave: healthy work-life balance.
- Professional Development: Access diverse CPD and training opportunities to grow your skills.
- Flexible & Family-Friendly: We are committed to supporting flexible working and requests will be considered on an individual basis, including options such as part time, term-time, home working, and other options that work for both the employee and the Trust.
- Exclusive Discounts: Benefit from Blue Light Card offers and employee perks.
- Well-being Support: Receive comprehensive well-being and employee assistance for you and your family.
Join REAch2 for a rewarding career with great benefits!
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Tymberwood Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 385 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Tymberwood Academy website
Tymberwood Academy is an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ school as reported in February 2022. We take workload seriously and work collaboratively with staff to enable an effective work-life balance. As a school we are moving towards being sustainably great. With this in mind, we firmly believe that our children – with a whole variety of different strengths and skills - need to be cared for, need to be loved and need to know that you are fighting for them. Our staff believe that our pupils can go on and do any job or role in the future and essentially that anything is possible. Our staff go above and beyond to enable that to happen. As a forward thinking and progressive school we are a hub for professional development and opportunity where our staff voice matters and is valued. We encourage our teachers to elicit change and actively contribute to help shape our school.
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