Headteacher

Willow Primary Academy, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 0JY

45 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBA

• Closing date

  16 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  2 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £75,049.00 - £82,654.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership point 16-20

Headteacher job summary

We may close the vacancy earlier than the advertised deadline based on the numbers of applications received. Early applications are strongly encouraged.

About you

We are looking to appoint an inspirational Headteacher. The successful candidate will be able to create a positive and outstanding learning environment through their vision and leadership, helping to deliver the highest standard of education to pupils by supporting and developing teachers and staff and ensuring a vibrant, safe and successful school environment. You will also aspire to enhance the life chances and quality of education for our pupils.

The Role

Willow Primary Academy is a mainstream primary Academy with an attached specialist provision, The Piper Centre. The Headteacher will provide the Academy with vision, ambition, leadership and direction, in conjunction with nurturing and developing staff, ensuring it continues to develop and remain a beacon of excellence in Gloucester.

The Academy

Willow Primary Academy is part of the SAND Academies Trust and is based in Gloucester. To ensure the Academy to continues to thrive, the successful candidate will need to work closely with and within the community.

The school empowers all children to fulfil their true potential by fostering their love of learning; nurturing their personal development; and enabling them to feel proud of their own achievements. Willow Primary Academy’s mascot ‘Willow the Lion’ is linked to our school emblem, a willow tree. Willow embodies our overarching school value of PRIDE.

Staff and pupils at Willow Primary Academy are expected to show PRIDE values in all they do. PRIDE expresses how stakeholders at Willow feel about everything that happens at our school. Staff will model our school mission statement - ‘Taking PRIDE in all we do’ - and this mind set is expected of the children and parents too.

Our Benefits

By joining our team, we can offer you, generous pension scheme (TPS), Employee Assistance Programme & Counselling, Occupational Health Service, Continuing Professional Development and Staff Get Staff Referral Scheme.

Additional Information

SAND Academies Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. As part of our Safe Recruitment Practice, we will need a completed application form before any offers, and all staff will require safeguarding/pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS, satisfactory health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Please ensure that you have read and understood the information within the Candidate Information pack and understood our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders which can be found on our careers page.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Willow Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 213 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Willow Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-willow-primary-academy

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