Headteacher
| Posting date: | 20 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 October 2025 |
| Location: | Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7QJ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 94f5b402-ad86-416a-969e-9fe8c0964e5e |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an inspirational leader with experience in a leadership role, who is keen to shape the future of the school through:
• Working closely with the governing body to develop a relevant and effective school vision and strategic plan.
• Ensuring that the school strategic plan is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all.
• Working within the school community to translate the strategy into agreed objectives and operational plans that will promote and sustain continual school improvement and a sense of team ownership.
• Ensuring that strategic planning and the school culture and curriculum take account of the diversity, values and experience of the school and the community at large.
• Ensuring creativity, innovation and the appropriate use of new technologies and initiatives to achieve excellence.
• Ensuring that a school development plan based on robust self-evaluation is in place, is delivered and impacts on school improvement.
• Providing vision and direction to secure effective teaching, successful learning achievement by pupils and sustained improvement in their social, moral, cultural, spiritual and physical development to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences for later life.
What the school offers its staff
The school offers:
A well-resourced provision in a beautiful setting
An established, skilled and committed staff
A supportive and enthusiastic parent community
Wonderful children who inspire us everyday
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.
We are looking for an inspirational leader with experience in a leadership role, who is keen to shape the future of the school through:
• Working closely with the governing body to develop a relevant and effective school vision and strategic plan.
• Ensuring that the school strategic plan is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all.
• Working within the school community to translate the strategy into agreed objectives and operational plans that will promote and sustain continual school improvement and a sense of team ownership.
• Ensuring that strategic planning and the school culture and curriculum take account of the diversity, values and experience of the school and the community at large.
• Ensuring creativity, innovation and the appropriate use of new technologies and initiatives to achieve excellence.
• Ensuring that a school development plan based on robust self-evaluation is in place, is delivered and impacts on school improvement.
• Providing vision and direction to secure effective teaching, successful learning achievement by pupils and sustained improvement in their social, moral, cultural, spiritual and physical development to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences for later life.
What the school offers its staff
The school offers:
A well-resourced provision in a beautiful setting
An established, skilled and committed staff
A supportive and enthusiastic parent community
Wonderful children who inspire us everyday
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.