Head Teacher
| Posting date: | 11 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 October 2025 |
| Location: | Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16 9BB |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | c0d6bb22-b636-48ab-b43f-dbd30bb3d5eb |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Practising Catholic
✓
Qualified Teaching Status
✓
Degree
✓
Catholic Teachers’ Certificate or other Catholic teachers’ qualification, such as CCRS
✓
EXPERIENCE
Recent successful experience as a Senior Leader, preferably Head Teacher, in a Primary School
✓
Experience of involvement in managing school finances and budgets
✓
Experience of working in partnership with a Governing Body
✓
Experience of working in partnership with the Diocese, the Local Authority, other partner schools and outside agencies
✓
Primary teaching experience & ability to demonstrate an understanding & delivery of outstanding Primary practice including effective assessment methods
✓
Experience of leading teaching and learning of RE in a Catholic school
✓
Record of classroom teaching within the primary age-range
✓
Nursery – experience of working in a school with nursery provision.
✓
Experience of meeting the individual needs of the whole child through child-centred learning ensuring each child reaches their full potential
✓
An inclusive practitioner who understands and has knowledge and experience of working with children with SEND and EAL needs, and able to cater for the needs of all pupils
✓
Experience of monitoring and evaluating the quality of teaching and learning throughout the school and using performance data and current assessment methods to identify learning needs and raise standards and achievement
✓
Experience of delivering professional development
✓
Experience of planning, implementing, evaluating and prioritising staff development
✓
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Ability to lead by example and communicate a strong Christian and Catholic vision and values & identify clear strategies for implementation
✓
Conversant with the governors’ statutory role in a Catholic school/academy and knowledge of current legislation and developments in Catholic education
✓
Ability to support and lead the Catholic identity of the school and nurture the children’s spiritual development, including the ability to lead collective worship which contributes and enriches the prayer and spiritual life of the school
✓
Involvement in the life of a parish
✓
The ability to use whole school self-evaluation to raise standards and bring about school improvement
✓
An ability to understand the financial management of a Catholic school; a willingness to undertake necessary training in this area
✓
Awareness and understanding of the current OFSTED and Section 48 processes and framework
✓
To be an effective communicator and good listener to a wide variety of audiences and in a variety of settings
✓
An ability to help children and their families overcome barriers to learning
✓
Recognise and celebrate the richness and diversity of the school’s communities
✓
Confident decision-maker, able to think strategically whilst managing priorities and time; ability to delegate as appropriate
✓
Appreciate the importance of a healthy work life balance and model it for others
✓
The ability to set and embed the highest standards of behaviour throughout the school
✓
Ability to manage and develop a broad and balanced curriculum, including the use of technology, with the confidence to be innovative and creative
✓
Ability to maintain existing outstanding practice and manage and embrace change
✓
Knowledge and ability to ensure safeguarding and promote the welfare of all children
✓
QUALITIES
Ability to maintain, lead and promote the Catholic life of the school and its place within linked parishes and the wider community
✓
Open, approachable and supportive to staff and parents/carers, as well as being committed to being seen as an active participant in all aspects of school life
✓
Highly motivated with high expectations that can be communicated to all community members
✓
The ability to identify opportunities to develop the school strategically
✓
Resilient, optimistic, energetic, and positive, especially in difficult times, and the ability to demonstrate calmness and clear-headedness in a crisis
✓
What the school offers its staff
We have a wonderful opportunity for a dynamic and inspiring Head Teacher to join our dedicated and supportive team at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Malmesbury. We are a small school with capacity for growth and a nursery launching in September 2025.
We welcome applications from candidates who are enthusiastic about working in a school where children are at the heart of all we do, and our vision is rooted in the Catholic values of respect, resilience, stewardship, curiosity, forgiveness and love.
The successful candidate will have:
• a commitment to Catholic Education
• a track record of school leadership
• the ability to think strategically and be outward looking
• a knowledge of the business of running a school
• a friendly and fair approach to stakeholders Compassion and empathy and the
• the ability to make tough decisions
• a desire to work collegiately with staff, parents, governors and the broader community
• a child-centred approach to decision-making
• the ability to navigate the changing educational landscape
As a school we offer:
• A strong and supportive ethos
• Happy, enthusiastic and friendly pupils
• An excellent community spirit which fosters collaboration with its parents and carers and parish
• Friendly and dedicated staff who are committed to embracing new ideas to improve teaching and learning
• A programme of CPD and support
• The potential in future to be supported within a Multi-Academy Trust
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.
Practising Catholic
✓
Qualified Teaching Status
✓
Degree
✓
Catholic Teachers’ Certificate or other Catholic teachers’ qualification, such as CCRS
✓
EXPERIENCE
Recent successful experience as a Senior Leader, preferably Head Teacher, in a Primary School
✓
Experience of involvement in managing school finances and budgets
✓
Experience of working in partnership with a Governing Body
✓
Experience of working in partnership with the Diocese, the Local Authority, other partner schools and outside agencies
✓
Primary teaching experience & ability to demonstrate an understanding & delivery of outstanding Primary practice including effective assessment methods
✓
Experience of leading teaching and learning of RE in a Catholic school
✓
Record of classroom teaching within the primary age-range
✓
Nursery – experience of working in a school with nursery provision.
✓
Experience of meeting the individual needs of the whole child through child-centred learning ensuring each child reaches their full potential
✓
An inclusive practitioner who understands and has knowledge and experience of working with children with SEND and EAL needs, and able to cater for the needs of all pupils
✓
Experience of monitoring and evaluating the quality of teaching and learning throughout the school and using performance data and current assessment methods to identify learning needs and raise standards and achievement
✓
Experience of delivering professional development
✓
Experience of planning, implementing, evaluating and prioritising staff development
✓
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Ability to lead by example and communicate a strong Christian and Catholic vision and values & identify clear strategies for implementation
✓
Conversant with the governors’ statutory role in a Catholic school/academy and knowledge of current legislation and developments in Catholic education
✓
Ability to support and lead the Catholic identity of the school and nurture the children’s spiritual development, including the ability to lead collective worship which contributes and enriches the prayer and spiritual life of the school
✓
Involvement in the life of a parish
✓
The ability to use whole school self-evaluation to raise standards and bring about school improvement
✓
An ability to understand the financial management of a Catholic school; a willingness to undertake necessary training in this area
✓
Awareness and understanding of the current OFSTED and Section 48 processes and framework
✓
To be an effective communicator and good listener to a wide variety of audiences and in a variety of settings
✓
An ability to help children and their families overcome barriers to learning
✓
Recognise and celebrate the richness and diversity of the school’s communities
✓
Confident decision-maker, able to think strategically whilst managing priorities and time; ability to delegate as appropriate
✓
Appreciate the importance of a healthy work life balance and model it for others
✓
The ability to set and embed the highest standards of behaviour throughout the school
✓
Ability to manage and develop a broad and balanced curriculum, including the use of technology, with the confidence to be innovative and creative
✓
Ability to maintain existing outstanding practice and manage and embrace change
✓
Knowledge and ability to ensure safeguarding and promote the welfare of all children
✓
QUALITIES
Ability to maintain, lead and promote the Catholic life of the school and its place within linked parishes and the wider community
✓
Open, approachable and supportive to staff and parents/carers, as well as being committed to being seen as an active participant in all aspects of school life
✓
Highly motivated with high expectations that can be communicated to all community members
✓
The ability to identify opportunities to develop the school strategically
✓
Resilient, optimistic, energetic, and positive, especially in difficult times, and the ability to demonstrate calmness and clear-headedness in a crisis
✓
What the school offers its staff
We have a wonderful opportunity for a dynamic and inspiring Head Teacher to join our dedicated and supportive team at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Malmesbury. We are a small school with capacity for growth and a nursery launching in September 2025.
We welcome applications from candidates who are enthusiastic about working in a school where children are at the heart of all we do, and our vision is rooted in the Catholic values of respect, resilience, stewardship, curiosity, forgiveness and love.
The successful candidate will have:
• a commitment to Catholic Education
• a track record of school leadership
• the ability to think strategically and be outward looking
• a knowledge of the business of running a school
• a friendly and fair approach to stakeholders Compassion and empathy and the
• the ability to make tough decisions
• a desire to work collegiately with staff, parents, governors and the broader community
• a child-centred approach to decision-making
• the ability to navigate the changing educational landscape
As a school we offer:
• A strong and supportive ethos
• Happy, enthusiastic and friendly pupils
• An excellent community spirit which fosters collaboration with its parents and carers and parish
• Friendly and dedicated staff who are committed to embracing new ideas to improve teaching and learning
• A programme of CPD and support
• The potential in future to be supported within a Multi-Academy Trust
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.