Headteacher - Corvedale CE Primary School
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Craven Arms, Shropshire, SY7 9DH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 830fa196-2500-448c-af03-dfc2cada546c |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Provide professional vision and leadership for the school and nursery which secures its success and improvement, ensuring high quality education for all its pupils and improved standards of learning and outcomes for pupils.
• Maintain and develop our Christian Ethos in collaboration with the governing body, Diocese and staff.
• Establish and articulate a strategic vision, aims and objectives for the school and nursery, together with the governing body and in consultation with the school community.
• Identify problems and barriers to school and nursery effectiveness and develop strategies for school improvement that are realistic, timely and suited to the school’s context in collaboration with other professionals.
• Ensure that these improvement strategies are implemented effectively.
• Monitor and report progress towards achieving the school and nursery’s aims and objectives.
• Allocate financial resources appropriately, efficiently and effectively.
• Ensure that, and satisfy the governors that, school policies and practices comply with national, local and school requirements and monitor and evaluate their impact taking appropriate improvement actions.
• Lead strategic projects at the school as agreed with the governing body.
• Represent the school in the outside world professionally.
• Prepare the school for assessment by Ofsted and SIAMS.
What the school offers its staff
Please see attached documents.
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.
• Provide professional vision and leadership for the school and nursery which secures its success and improvement, ensuring high quality education for all its pupils and improved standards of learning and outcomes for pupils.
• Maintain and develop our Christian Ethos in collaboration with the governing body, Diocese and staff.
• Establish and articulate a strategic vision, aims and objectives for the school and nursery, together with the governing body and in consultation with the school community.
• Identify problems and barriers to school and nursery effectiveness and develop strategies for school improvement that are realistic, timely and suited to the school’s context in collaboration with other professionals.
• Ensure that these improvement strategies are implemented effectively.
• Monitor and report progress towards achieving the school and nursery’s aims and objectives.
• Allocate financial resources appropriately, efficiently and effectively.
• Ensure that, and satisfy the governors that, school policies and practices comply with national, local and school requirements and monitor and evaluate their impact taking appropriate improvement actions.
• Lead strategic projects at the school as agreed with the governing body.
• Represent the school in the outside world professionally.
• Prepare the school for assessment by Ofsted and SIAMS.
What the school offers its staff
Please see attached documents.
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.