Headteacher
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M41 5AH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d45702aa-00ab-4181-81ff-f5963d63b25d |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Be a practising Catholic, with a strong faith and commitment to the Catholic ethos of the school and its community.
• Be aspirational in your approach to the quality of teaching and learning and of the achievement and wellbeing of every child.
• Be a role model who inspires and motivates others through their commitment, enthusiasm and dedication to raising standards.
• Be a highly effective leader who can manage and organise the personnel, financial and professional needs of the school’s resources and staff.
• Be an experienced leader with the interpersonal skills to develop strong working relationships with staff, children, parents, parish and governors.
• Be a skilled communicator who can share and develop their vision of what makes a good school with the school’s shareholders.
What the school offers its staff
• Wonderful children who love school with very supportive parents.
• Caring, dedicated and hardworking staff, who welcome new ideas.
• An attractive, stimulating and safe environment.
• Exceptional links with the Diocese, Emmaus Catholic Academy Trust and other local Catholic schools.
• Commitment to your own personal development.
• The opportunity to work within a growing Catholic Academy Trust.
Further details about the role
Start Date: January 2026
Further details about this vacancy are available via
Vacancies | Emmaus CAT
Visits to English Martyrs RC Primary School are encouraged and strongly recommended. To arrange a visit to the school, please contact the school directly to arrange a mutually convenient date and time via; admin@englishmartyrs.trafford.sch.uk
Applications should be submitted on the attached CES Application Form. Completed application forms and supporting documents should then be returned via email to; Liz Moran, Senior Administrator at Emmaus Catholic Academy Trust, liz.moran@emmauscat.com, by the closing date of Wednesday 15th October 2025, 9:00am
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 21st October 2025.
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.
• Be a practising Catholic, with a strong faith and commitment to the Catholic ethos of the school and its community.
• Be aspirational in your approach to the quality of teaching and learning and of the achievement and wellbeing of every child.
• Be a role model who inspires and motivates others through their commitment, enthusiasm and dedication to raising standards.
• Be a highly effective leader who can manage and organise the personnel, financial and professional needs of the school’s resources and staff.
• Be an experienced leader with the interpersonal skills to develop strong working relationships with staff, children, parents, parish and governors.
• Be a skilled communicator who can share and develop their vision of what makes a good school with the school’s shareholders.
What the school offers its staff
• Wonderful children who love school with very supportive parents.
• Caring, dedicated and hardworking staff, who welcome new ideas.
• An attractive, stimulating and safe environment.
• Exceptional links with the Diocese, Emmaus Catholic Academy Trust and other local Catholic schools.
• Commitment to your own personal development.
• The opportunity to work within a growing Catholic Academy Trust.
Further details about the role
Start Date: January 2026
Further details about this vacancy are available via
Vacancies | Emmaus CAT
Visits to English Martyrs RC Primary School are encouraged and strongly recommended. To arrange a visit to the school, please contact the school directly to arrange a mutually convenient date and time via; admin@englishmartyrs.trafford.sch.uk
Applications should be submitted on the attached CES Application Form. Completed application forms and supporting documents should then be returned via email to; Liz Moran, Senior Administrator at Emmaus Catholic Academy Trust, liz.moran@emmauscat.com, by the closing date of Wednesday 15th October 2025, 9:00am
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 21st October 2025.
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.