Headteacher
| Posting date: | 04 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 September 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 6UN |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 80e80ff7-a5d1-4b75-901d-006cff5ea75c |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Professional Skills
- Extensive knowledge and experience of primary education
- A thorough understanding of how children learn, and a knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding best practice
- The ability to create and develop a stimulating environment and an eagerness to learn
- An understanding of strategies for supporting and enhancing teachers’ effectiveness, and securing school improvement
- Knowledge of the statutory frameworks and good practice for curriculum delivery and assessment
- High expectations of pupil behaviour and the effective use of behaviour management strategies
- The ability to motivate and empower all staff to carry out their respective roles to the highest standard through continuing professional development and effective performance management
What the school offers its staff
The Headteacher will be an inspirational, professional, and dynamic leader with the vision, drive, and passion to build upon the school’s strengths and achievements. You will inspire, challenge and motivate all members of the school community, ensuring all children in our school receive the best possible educational experience to enable them to succeed and develop vital skills for the future.
The Headteacher will be responsible for ensuring:
• The school’s strategic plan considers the views of parents, carers, children, and staff and all aims and objectives are met fully by the appropriate deployment of human and financial resources
• All staff put safeguarding and the welfare of children at the heart of what they do, so that all children are safe and can develop their abilities in a nurturing and inclusive environment, where discipline and good behaviour allow them to participate, learn, enjoy and achieve.
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.
Professional Skills
- Extensive knowledge and experience of primary education
- A thorough understanding of how children learn, and a knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding best practice
- The ability to create and develop a stimulating environment and an eagerness to learn
- An understanding of strategies for supporting and enhancing teachers’ effectiveness, and securing school improvement
- Knowledge of the statutory frameworks and good practice for curriculum delivery and assessment
- High expectations of pupil behaviour and the effective use of behaviour management strategies
- The ability to motivate and empower all staff to carry out their respective roles to the highest standard through continuing professional development and effective performance management
What the school offers its staff
The Headteacher will be an inspirational, professional, and dynamic leader with the vision, drive, and passion to build upon the school’s strengths and achievements. You will inspire, challenge and motivate all members of the school community, ensuring all children in our school receive the best possible educational experience to enable them to succeed and develop vital skills for the future.
The Headteacher will be responsible for ensuring:
• The school’s strategic plan considers the views of parents, carers, children, and staff and all aims and objectives are met fully by the appropriate deployment of human and financial resources
• All staff put safeguarding and the welfare of children at the heart of what they do, so that all children are safe and can develop their abilities in a nurturing and inclusive environment, where discipline and good behaviour allow them to participate, learn, enjoy and achieve.
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.