Trust Executive Headteacher
St Clere's School, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, SS17 0NW24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st January 2026
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £102,900.00 - £118,977.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Point 30 – 36
Trust Executive Headteacher job summary
Are you an inspiring and visionary leader ready to shape the future of education across multiple schools? At the Osborne Cooperative Academy Trust, we are seeking an exceptional Executive Headteacher to take on the substantive headship of St Clere’s School whilst also working directly with the Assistant CEO to play a pivotal role in the strategic leadership and development of exemplary practice in both this school and across our trust.
This role offers the unique experience to shape the educational experience of all students in our trust schools, all of which are rated as GOOD. Our trust is built upon the co-operative values and ethical principles; we are proud to be an inclusive and aspirational environment in which our students and staff flourish.
About the Role:
As Executive Headteacher, you will:
- Lead St Clere’s school with passion, integrity, and a relentless focus on excellence. Build on the recent GOOD Ofsted and embed the continued strategies of accelerated school improvement to achieve the trust aspirations. Support the Head of School to lead on the day-to-day operations of a large complex school on a continued journey of school improvement.
- Oversee the exciting DfE approved new build and remodelling of the existing St Clere’s School site following RAAC.
- Work collaboratively with other school leaders to drive improvement, share best practices, and foster a culture of high expectations across all our schools.
- Chair the secondary headteachers group, ensuring consistency in standards, curriculum innovation, and pupil outcomes through collaboration and sharing of good practice.
- Lead on the trust school improvement model of embedded peer to peer review through the School Partnership Programme.
- Contribute to the strategic direction of the wider trust, influencing policy, pedagogy, and professional development.
We Are Looking For:
- A proven track record of successful headship and school improvement.
- Inspirational leadership with the ability to motivate and empower others.
- Strategic thinking and the ability to manage change effectively.
- A commitment to inclusive education and the highest standards of safeguarding and wellbeing.
If you share our commitment to educational excellence and values-driven leadership, we would be delighted to receive your application. As a trust, we recognise the value of and seek to achieve a diverse workforce. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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 are not accepted.
About St Clere's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1332 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Clere's School website
School location
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