Interim Executive Headteacher

Follifoot Church of England Primary School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 1DU

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  1 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 May 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: Fixed term - 1 year
• Pay scale: L12 – L18 (£65,286 - £75,675)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you an experienced Headteacher with a strong track record of driving school improvement, eager to take on an interim role where you can make an immediate and meaningful impact?

Our Opportunity

We are seeking an outstanding Interim Executive Headteacher to lead our federation through the next stage of its journey. This fixed-term role offers a unique opportunity to provide interim leadership. This is a rewarding and challenging position where you can make an immediate impact. You’ll lead two rural schools with distinctive strengths and opportunities. With confidence, empathy, and strategic insight, you will foster a healthy workplace culture that benefits both staff and pupils.

As our Interim Executive Headteacher, you will:

• Implement strategies to raise standards and improve pupil attainment and progress.
• Address diverse needs across the federation, ensuring every child receives the support they need to thrive.
• Strengthen the quality of teaching and learning, while inspiring high expectations for staff and pupils.
• Balance educational priorities with budgetary constraints and lead change to ensure a sustainable and impactful future.
• Develop and mentor staff to help them achieve their full potential, providing leadership support where it’s most needed.

We are looking for:

You will be an experienced Headteacher with a proven track record of raising educational standards, driving school improvement, and fostering a culture of high expectations and achievement. Your expertise will enable you to quickly identify areas for development, implement effective strategies, and deliver tangible improvements that benefit both pupils and staff.

With exceptional leadership ability, you will excel in communicating effectively and whether working with pupils, staff, parents, governors, or external stakeholders, you will inspire confidence, trust, and collaboration. Your ability to listen, empathise, and communicate will be essential to engage the school community.

You will relish the opportunity to step into a challenging role, bringing your energy and determination to tackle complex issues head-on. You will thrive in a dynamic environment where your leadership can make an immediate and meaningful impact. Your resilience and adaptability will allow you to navigate the unique challenges of an interim role, while your focus and strategic thinking will lay the groundwork for sustainable improvements. As a skilled leader, you will balance the diverse needs of pupils, staff, and the wider school community, ensuring that every decision aligns with the schools’ ethos, values, and long-term goals.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you

• Strength in our Christian Vision and ethos and the ethos this inspires in our community of children, staff and parents
• An excellent opportunity to provide strategic leadership and direction in a supportive environment
• Happy, caring and supportive schools, with children who respect and care for each other and have a thirst for learning
• A Governing Body who are committed and passionate about our schools and eager to support your work
• Significant support from a dedicated staff team ready to grow under your leadership, in addition to ongoing support from the Local Authority and Diocese

Further details about the role

Application Process and key documents

For further information about this exciting opportunity, please visit our dedicated campaign website.

Closing date:Midnight, Sunday 1st June

Interview date:Monday 9th June

Please apply via NYC Jobs. However, please contact us if your need to apply in a different format.

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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

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About Follifoot Church of England Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 43 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Follifoot Church of England Primary School website
• Email address: helen.poole@northyorks.gov.uk
• Phone number: 01609 532254
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/follifoot-church-of-england-primary-school

Arranging a visit to Follifoot Church of England Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email helen.poole@northyorks.gov.uk.

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