Interim Primary Headteacher
Wheatcroft Community Primary School, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 3BW16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026 or earlier if available
Closing date
17 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 May 2026
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 - Fixed Term – 1 term
Pay scale
- L12-L16 (£67,898-£75,049) per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our Opportunity:
This is a critical and time sensitive opportunity to lead Wheatcroft Community Primary School at a defining moment in its journey. The school has strong foundations: dedicated staff, positive relationships and a clear community ethos. What it now requires is decisive, focused leadership to provide stability, restore confidence and drive improvement without delay.
Wheatcroft has much to build on, including strong early reading outcomes, an inclusive culture and a committed team who care deeply about the school and its pupils. However, the school is now seeking an Interim Headteacher who can take firm ownership of key priorities immediately. These include securing consistently high quality teaching, embedding a coherent and ambitious curriculum, strengthening attendance and driving improved outcomes at Key Stage 2.
This role demands a leader who can act quickly and confidently, unite staff around a clear direction and lead improvement at pace, while remaining sensitive to the school’s context and recent period of change. You will play a central role in stabilising systems, shaping the leadership structure and developing staff capacity, ensuring that Wheatcroft is well positioned for its next phase.
For the right candidate, this is more than an interim headship. It is an opportunity to make a visible and lasting difference, to steady the school at a crucial point and to lead a community that is ready to move forward with renewed ambition and purpose.
About You:
You will be an experienced, resilient and decisive leader, ready to take on a headship that requires clarity, credibility and immediate impact from day one. You will bring the leadership presence needed to stabilise the school quickly and to move it forward with urgency and confidence.
You will have a proven track record of leading improvement in complex or changing contexts, combining high expectations with strong interpersonal skills to rebuild trust, re establish confidence and bring the school community together. Experience of working closely with parents, governors and external partners will be essential in restoring visible, effective and reassuring leadership.
A strong understanding of safeguarding and inclusion is vital, and experience as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) would be advantageous. You will be confident in meeting the needs of all pupils, including those with SEND and more complex needs, ensuring provision is both inclusive and impactful.
You will also bring secure knowledge of school finance and resource management, with the ability to manage budgets responsibly, ensure compliance and make clear decisions that support the school’s immediate priorities and long term sustainability.
Above all, you will be a leader who can balance empathy with firmness: able to support and develop staff while holding them to account, and motivated by the challenge of shaping the school’s next phase and securing consistently strong outcomes for every child.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A welcoming and friendly school with delightful children who respect one another and are eager to learn.
- A professional culture where staff are committed, experienced and ready to engage with change.
- The opportunity to unlock the school’s significant potential and play a key role in repositioning Wheatcroft as a strong and confident primary school.
- High levels of support from the Local Authority, Governing Board and senior leaders.
- A Governing Body that is committed to providing robust support, including with sensitive or complex matters and staff wellbeing.
- Membership of a local Headteacher Cluster, offering a valuable professional support network and opportunities to share best practice.
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wheatcroft Community Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 205 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wheatcroft Community Primary School website
- Email address
- helen.poole@northyorks.gov.uk
- Phone number
- 01609 532254
Arranging a visit to Wheatcroft Community Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email helen.poole@northyorks.gov.uk.
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