Headteacher/Principal
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2025 |
| Location: | Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6HY |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | b17fa30c-9bde-481a-a0ad-3a479b7c7279 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our new Principal will bring a compelling blend of professional leadership, vision and ambition to our school and community. You will be an inclusive and visible leader, committed to delivering a world-class education. Your ability to engage and inspire teachers, pupils, parents and carers will be essential in driving our shared vision forward. Additionally, you will collaborate effectively with colleagues across the Trust to achieve outstanding outcomes.
We are particularly interested in leaders who can:
• Raise and extend pupil achievement, ensuring exceptional academic progress for all.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, enabling staff to excel and innovate in their teaching.• Inspire and engage the school community, strengthening relationships with all stakeholders.
• Champion an inclusive learning environment, where every child is challenged and supported to reach their full potential.
What the school offers its staff
• Access to Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• CPD including Senior Leader and Knowledge Development Courses
• Regional networks of Trust colleagues and access to key leaders in education• Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
• Awards and Recognition Scheme
• Flexible working patterns
Benefits Platform : holiday discounts : cinema tickets : restaurant booking discounts : Cycle to Work Scheme
Further details about the role
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced current Headteacher/Principal who is looking for their next challenge; or an experienced senior school leader who may be seeking a first Principal role. You will be professionally supported by DRET to develop and craft your skills to become an outstanding Principal.
You will see yourself as a teacher at heart, able to inspire others to learn and promoting 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 the Principal of a busy and demanding school brings.
You will be able to show us your success story within a programme of rapid school improvement and/or by sustaining significantly high academic standards and outcomes, involving the local community. If you can demonstrate outstanding effectiveness as a leading classroom practitioner and can also bring impressive skills in strategic and resource management, development planning and personnel and financial management, we would like to hear from you.
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.
Our new Principal will bring a compelling blend of professional leadership, vision and ambition to our school and community. You will be an inclusive and visible leader, committed to delivering a world-class education. Your ability to engage and inspire teachers, pupils, parents and carers will be essential in driving our shared vision forward. Additionally, you will collaborate effectively with colleagues across the Trust to achieve outstanding outcomes.
We are particularly interested in leaders who can:
• Raise and extend pupil achievement, ensuring exceptional academic progress for all.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, enabling staff to excel and innovate in their teaching.• Inspire and engage the school community, strengthening relationships with all stakeholders.
• Champion an inclusive learning environment, where every child is challenged and supported to reach their full potential.
What the school offers its staff
• Access to Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• CPD including Senior Leader and Knowledge Development Courses
• Regional networks of Trust colleagues and access to key leaders in education• Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
• Awards and Recognition Scheme
• Flexible working patterns
Benefits Platform : holiday discounts : cinema tickets : restaurant booking discounts : Cycle to Work Scheme
Further details about the role
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced current Headteacher/Principal who is looking for their next challenge; or an experienced senior school leader who may be seeking a first Principal role. You will be professionally supported by DRET to develop and craft your skills to become an outstanding Principal.
You will see yourself as a teacher at heart, able to inspire others to learn and promoting 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 the Principal of a busy and demanding school brings.
You will be able to show us your success story within a programme of rapid school improvement and/or by sustaining significantly high academic standards and outcomes, involving the local community. If you can demonstrate outstanding effectiveness as a leading classroom practitioner and can also bring impressive skills in strategic and resource management, development planning and personnel and financial management, we would like to hear from you.
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.