Headteacher
Wellfield School, Wingate, County Durham, TS28 5AX10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st January 2025
Closing date
11 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £101,067.00 - £118,732.00 Annually (Actual)
Headteacher job summary
You will be a successful and experienced leader, able to enthuse, motivate and inspire students and staff, generating a love for learning at all levels and stages of life. You will also have demonstrated excellence in leadership, managing change and driving improvement in your present role.
Great people management, high standards and a capacity for hard work will have been at the core of your success. You will be a creative thinker with an ability and determination to secure high-quality outcomes for all students. You will have an up-to-date understanding of national developments in education and relevant legislation.
Our vision at Wellfield is represented in our school motto: “We go the extra mile.” This guiding principle is at the heart of everything we do, driving our commitment to high achievement for all students. However, Wellfield is more than just a place of academic learning; it is an environment where educational excellence meets a dedication to the holistic development of every student.
This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced senior leader to work with a high functioning and effective team, committed to excellence and staff development and support.
If you have the vision, drive and passion, we can offer you:
- An excellent and committed staff who go the extra mile
- Support and direction from the Chief Executive Officer
- An effective peer network with 2 other secondary schools in the Trust
- Excellent support services delivered via the Trust, including Finance, IT and HR
- Engaged, happy students who demonstrate ‘good’ behaviours for learning
- Excellent personal career development
- Strong mutually beneficial partnerships
You are warmly invited to visit the school, to see what makes us so proud and excited - please see contact details below.
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 Wellfield School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 912 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Wellfield School website (opens in new tab)
Wellfield School is a mixed, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary school without sixth form situated in Wingate, County Durham. It is a community state school that provides 1,200 places for students between the ages of 11 and 16 when fully subscribed. Wellfield School is part of New College Durham Academies Trust.
Wellfield School’s motto is “Go the extra mile”. It is a learning community that aims for high achievement and success for all. The secondary school prides itself on being a happy and caring environment, an exciting centre of learning for the community, and a place where all children feel respected for their individual talents.
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