Headteacher
Warden House Primary School, Deal, Kent, CT14 9SF17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
25 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 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
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Group 3 Leadership Scale School (L11 - 24)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Warden House Primary School are looking to recruit a highly motivated and experienced Headteacher. You will be part of our thriving community and will work with us to achieve our mission of irresistible learning for all. We are driven to provide high quality learning aligned to our values of inclusion, innovation and inspiration.
You will be a transformational leader with a proven track record of school improvement. Leading by example, you will ensure our people are committed to high standards for every child.
Warden House is part of Veritas Multi Academy Trust, our school to school support model commits to collaborative working. You will embrace this in your leadership.
As an experienced leader you will be able to demonstrate how you enable people to be the best versions of themselves: to inspire, motivate and embed continuous professional development.
Are you ambitious, visionary, innovative, positive and determined to make a difference to the life chances of our children and community? Do you have the passion, dedication and ability to continue to build on our school’s excellence and success and continue its journey of improvement?
Do you believe education makes a difference? Do you have the enthusiasm to instil this in others? Do you have a desire to work in a forward-thinking school that is part of Veritas Multi Academy Trust? If so, we would love to hear from you.
In alignment with our values, the Trust is committed to supporting inclusion and diversity in our recruitment. We actively seek to ensure that we are representative of our diverse communities.
Veritas Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants will be subject to recruitment and selection procedures designed to emphasize the Trust’s commitment to the safeguarding of its pupils and staff. Posts are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, two satisfactory references, an adequate pre-employment health check, and verification of the right to work in the UK. Please note as part of “Keeping Children Safe in Education” requirements, Veritas Multi Academy Trust will carry out online searches for all shortlisted candidates.
What the school offers its staff
The Veritas Multi Academy Trust acknowledges the duty of care it has towards all of its people and recognises the importance of prioritising wellbeing within the workplace in its many forms.
Our mission is to make learning irresistible for all. This can only be achieved by the combined commitment of our people. The Trust’s pledge is to ensure that our people are valued, fairly remunerated, supported in their professional learning and development, supported when life is challenging and support each other to be the best version of selves. Everyone pledges to make wellbeing their priority, looking after each other and looking after ourselves. Why is Wellbeing in the workplace so important?
- Increases our resilience
- Reduce sickness absence
- Boosts morale and engagement
- Positively impacts on retention
- Supports recruitment by promoting a positive approach to wellbeing for our people
Our 10 Pledges
1. Collaboration and engagement with colleagues across the Trust, including an annual Trust Conference, with a focus on research and evidence informed practice.
2. Mentoring, coaching and supervision are available to all. Our Early Career Policy ensures that our new teachers are fully supported by highly qualified mentors who are given time to fulfil their role.
3. We listen carefully, including an annual people survey, and commit to providing support to each other to address challenges to our well-being.
4. All Schools have a Mental Health Lead to advise, and support on embedding best practice across the Trust.
5. Our Trust people development policy reduces unnecessary paperwork and has a clear focus on development and impact; including an Online Training Programme (National College) available for all.
6. Our focus on high quality teaching and learning puts professional agency at the forefront. All teaching and learning policies are reviewed to ensure workload is not adversely burdensome e.g. marking and assessment policy do not add to workload.
7. Opportunities to provide benefits are promoted across the Trust e.g. free child places in after school provision for all employees’ children, annual flu vaccination programme, membership of the Chartered College of Teaching, a free school meal to anyone who sits with children.
8. All our people have a job description which is annually reviewed, with opportunities to discuss professional development and opportunities for career progression.
9. Our pay policy is transparent as to how remuneration, and where opportunities for career development and progression are available.
10. Our Family Statement in the Trust’s absence policy makes explicit our commitment to supporting all, including flexible working, and fairly addressing and supporting absence and sickness.
Flexible working opportunities
We are committed to flexible working and encourage applications from those wishing to explore opportunities for flexible working.
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.
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About Warden House Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 392 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Warden House Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@warden-house.kent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01304 375040
Warden House Primary School became a Primary Academy in 2013 and has been judged by OFSTED as an outstanding school. We joined Veritas Multi Academy Trust in September 2015. The school has a deep heritage as a primary school offering the highest quality of education for children in Deal. As a Primary Academy, Warden House has a curriculum that targets excellence not just in English and mathematics but in all subjects. As part of Veritas Multi-Academy Trust, we work closely with our colleagues from our other Trust schools - Mundella Primary School in Folkestone and Pilgrim's Way Primary School in Canterbury.
Our inspiring school environment includes extensive grounds, dedicated music room, expansive library, breakfast and after-school club, on-site nursery, two football pitches, woodland area, environmental pond and a range of play equipment to keep our children active and engaged. Such resources enable our children to become confident and well-rounded individuals with a deep capacity for learning. Lessons are engaging and follow a rigorous curriculum with regular intervals of assessment to ensure our children are embedding their learning. As a result, our children make strong progress across the curriculum.
Our aim is to make learning irresistible; we want all children to develop a thirst for learning and push themselves to be the best that they can be.
Our values underpin all aspects of school life. Children are taught to be positive in their learning; to understand the importance of being good partners; to be independent in their learning and be determined when always striving for their best. Children are taught to be responsible members of the school community and then society and ultimately successful in their studies.
Arranging a visit to Warden House Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@warden-house.kent.sch.uk.
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