Principal

St Mark's Catholic Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B42 1NU

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st January 2026

• Closing date

  17 October 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  18 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £63,815.00 - £73,819.00 Annually (Actual) L11 - L17

Principal job summary

Principal

for St Mark’s Catholic Primary School

Almond Croft, Great Barr, Birmingham, B42 1NU

Closing Date: Friday 17th October 2025 at 12 noon

Interviews: Tuesday 21st October 2025

Salary: Leadership Scale L11 - L17

At the heart of our Catholic Multi-Academy Trust is a mission that shapes all we do. Inspired by the witness of St Gabriel, we form Christ-centred pilgrims of hope who embody kindness, seek truth with bold curiosity, hunger for knowledge, and long for justice. These five characteristics express how our mission lives and breathes in our schools, shaping culture, leadership, teaching, and community. St Gabriel the Archangel CMAT is a family of 63 schools working together to deliver quality education to those we serve.

St. Mark’s Catholic Primary School, Great Barr serves the parish of Holy Name and is easily commutable from Birmingham, Stafford, Sandwell and Walsall. Our faith is very important to us and it provides the foundation for the social, emotional and educational development of our pupils. We are a one form entry primary school at the heart of the local community. Everyone at St Mark's is dedicated to providing the best possible education and care to every single young person we serve. We aim to give all our children an exciting and challenging faith-based curriculum so that they discover and develop their God given abilities and skills during their time at St Mark's.

We are looking for an exceptional, resilient and inspiring leader to be the Principal of St Mark’s Catholic Primary School who is able to build on our existing successes and offer quality educational provision to our children.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a practising and committed Catholic with a secure understanding of the nature of Catholic Education

• Has experience of having worked in a successful school previously

• Has the ambition, drive, determination and commitment of an excellent leader

• Is able to articulate and share a vision of primary education within the aims and values of St Mark’s Catholic Primary School

• Has the knowledge of what constitutes quality in educational provision, the characteristics of effective schools and strategies for raising standards and the achievement of all pupils

• Understands and commits to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all pupils

• Has the ability to build and maintain good relationships

We can offer you:

• The opportunity to work with an experienced Catholic Senior Executive Leader and a team of school improvement advisors where you will be given the opportunity to broaden and develop your skills.

• A committed, hardworking and supportive team both in the school and as part of the wider St Gabriel the Archangel community.

• Central Services for Finance, HR, Estates and IT to enable school leaders to focus on teaching and learning

• A happy, caring and safe environment, where Staff and Governors work in partnership with parents and with the parish communities

• An inclusive and diverse culture which encourages understanding and respect for others

For further information, making an application or to arrange a visit to the school please contact: recruitment@sgacmat.co.uk, visit our website www.sgacmat.co.uk or for a discussion call Helen Parkes, CSEL, 01384 889422

Closing Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 12 noon.

Interviews: Monday 22 September 2025

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children; therefore, the post is subject to medical clearance, social media checks at shortlist and an enhanced DBS check.

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

At St. Mark’s Catholic Primary School, we take Safeguarding very seriously and we feel it is important that we work together with parents, carers, families and agencies to help to keep all the children at school safe and well.

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 St Mark's Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 208 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Mark's Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-mark-s-catholic-primary-school-birmingham

St. Mark’s Catholic Primary School is a large school at the heart of its community.

We currently have 210 pupils on our roll. We are a one form entry school with up to 30 pupils in each year group.

We have a very large site that offers our pupils an exceptional environment in which to learn. We have a large playing field, two play ‘jungle’ areas, two large playgrounds and an outdoor classroom for learning.

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