Principal
Hogsthorpe Primary Academy, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE24 5PTThis job expired on 18 May 2025
Start date details
September 2025 or January 2026
Closing date
18 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L5-L11
What skills and experience we're looking for
You will be able to provide strong leadership to the school and provide examples from your current role of making a difference and raising standards. You will see yourself as a teacher at heart, able to inspire others to learn and promote a broad and balanced curriculum that meets all children’s needs. You will also need to have excellent communication skills, be approachable and a good listener and able to deal with the everyday challenges that being headteacher of a village school brings.
As an innovative, motivational leader, you will have a commitment to your own professional development as well as those who work in your team and will contribute to the wider life both at the school and within the Trust. You will have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of current educational priorities and be able to demonstrate how these will influence your vision for the school moving forwards.
It is essential that you have experience of promoting equality and diversity and are fully up to date with the policies and procedures relating to safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare. You must be committed to inclusion with an up to date knowledge of appropriate strategies and the type of support needed for children with special educational needs.
What the school offers its staff
Everyone at Hogsthorpe Primary Academy is committed to doing their best for each and every child. To do this we try to ensure our school is colourful, exciting and welcoming to all who enter it - a place where children and adults feel secure and confident to experiment and take risks, whilst always striving for excellence. We know that each of our children comes to school with different experiences, knowledge and skills and that each has different learning needs and preferred ways of learning. We therefore aim to match our provision to the needs of each child.
We try to develop the whole child through developing their academic knowledge, skills and understanding but also their spiritual, moral, social and cultural attitudes.
The school was judged to be good at its last inspection in June 2024 and is seeking a Headteacher who can provide the exceptional leadership that will lead the school to even greater success in the future. We believe in putting children at the centre of all we do and in providing an education that is exciting, engaging and fun.
Further details about the role
This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a great primary school in a small Lincolnshire village where you will also have the opportunity to work within our subject leadership communities at a Trust level as well as be part of a DRET Lincolnshire collaboration. The David Ross Education Trust is a growing network of academies with a geographical focus on Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, London and the Yorkshire/ Humber region.
The governors and trustees are seeking an experienced and effective leader with a clear vision and ability to inspire, who can also drive the strategic development of the school through an innovative and dynamic approach. Enthusiastic, dedicated and passionate, you will help us realise the full potential in all our children.
Your remit will be to raise standards by developing the school, with an ability to affect change at pace and to work collaboratively with colleagues, in the school and across the DRET communities. To be successful, you must have recent school leadership experience and the ability to develop the school team to be their best and to work together as one team to benefit the children. You must have the experience, motivation and resilience to continue moving the school on their journey to be exceptional and understand that a thriving school is the heartbeat of a community. We need you to love, care and be as passionate about our school as the parents/carers and staff are.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hogsthorpe Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 52 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hogsthorpe Primary Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@dret.co.uk
Arranging a visit to Hogsthorpe Primary Academy
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