Headteacher
| Posting date: | 16 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 January 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L69 7SH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | e5b5af3b-150e-4a07-bd09-d0f05e4cef42 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We need someone who will provide outstanding strategic leadership and caring but assertive management to fulfil the mission of ULMaS. We want a leader who will ensure a continuation of the highest standards of academic and pastoral care for our students. We are looking for someone who will lead with moral purpose, not bureaucracy.
Our next headteacher will be:
• Thoughtful and perceptive about both strategies and people: able to help colleagues find solutions to problems.
• Committed to excellence in everything that the school does: from academic success to pastoral care.
• Creative and imaginative when it comes to developing and delivering the school’s strategic plans.
• Confidence inspiring and compassionate: able to establish trust both with philanthropic donors and with families facing tough challenges.
What the school offers its staff
As Headteacher of the University of Liverpool Maths School you lead a team united in its desire to transform the life chances of young people across Merseyside. ULMaS is an institution with a high level of support from the University of Liverpool, the parents of our students, politicians, philanthropists and many others. It attracts motivated and talented students who take full advantage of the opportunities that the school offers. It is an extremely inclusive and tolerant community whose members have a strong sense of belonging as well as a deep seated sense of purpose. Students are treated with respect and encouraged to be themselves and to feel at home when in school. They are expected to develop rapidly in their maturity and to behave as responsible young adults in a culture of mutual respect.
This is a school where the joy of ideas sits alongside the responsibility to nurture the whole young person.
The new headteacher will benefit from:
- Students who are highly motivated, very talented and great fun to work with.
- A conscientious, talented and cohesive staff team who are used to taking responsibility, working collaboratively and focusing on the needs of their students and those in the broader community.
- The opportunity to have a significant national influence on mathematics and STEM education through the many networks the school is involved in.
- The opportunity to design and equip an excellent permanent school building on the University of Liverpool campus.
- The continued strong support of the University of Liverpool.
- The support of philanthropists, charitable foundations and the Department for Education.
- The opportunity to make a significant difference to education of disadvantaged STEM focused students across the region through the school’s outreach programme.
-The autonomy to determine how funds are spent in order to prioritise the needs of students and support the needs of the staff.
- An intelligent and supportive board of trustees that prioritises ethical leadership and the needs of the school community; trustees at ULMaS provide expert support, challenge and strategic direction.
- The opportunity to contribute to teaching and experience the thrill of seeing students grow and excel every day: this is a hands-on role working with exciting young people in a small school, not a desk job in a vast multi-academy trust.
Employees’ Terms and conditions
The school has its own pay scale and terms and conditions. The school automatically enrols teachers into the national Teachers’ Pensions scheme.
The school’s calendar is available on the website. Our school holidays are based on Liverpool Local Authority term dates but with an earlier end to the summer term. Students finish the year in the first week of July, and most members of staff finish a week later. Staff members will sometimes be required to work some days during school holidays and occasionally evenings and on Saturdays in order to:
- support student admissions,
- deliver outreach to students in other schools,
- teach taster sessions for prospective students,
-and support CPD for staff in other schools.
The Headteacher will be expected to contribute to the teaching delivery in the school. The current Head teacher teaches between 3 and 8 hours per week depending on need. The standard teaching allocation for teachers is 20.5 hours per week.
Our staff members see working at this school as a privilege which offers unrivalled opportunities to teach and learn alongside like-minded colleagues and students
Further details about the role
https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/headteacher-liverpool-l69-7sh-2269886
Link to apply for the role, plus further information available via TES
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 need someone who will provide outstanding strategic leadership and caring but assertive management to fulfil the mission of ULMaS. We want a leader who will ensure a continuation of the highest standards of academic and pastoral care for our students. We are looking for someone who will lead with moral purpose, not bureaucracy.
Our next headteacher will be:
• Thoughtful and perceptive about both strategies and people: able to help colleagues find solutions to problems.
• Committed to excellence in everything that the school does: from academic success to pastoral care.
• Creative and imaginative when it comes to developing and delivering the school’s strategic plans.
• Confidence inspiring and compassionate: able to establish trust both with philanthropic donors and with families facing tough challenges.
What the school offers its staff
As Headteacher of the University of Liverpool Maths School you lead a team united in its desire to transform the life chances of young people across Merseyside. ULMaS is an institution with a high level of support from the University of Liverpool, the parents of our students, politicians, philanthropists and many others. It attracts motivated and talented students who take full advantage of the opportunities that the school offers. It is an extremely inclusive and tolerant community whose members have a strong sense of belonging as well as a deep seated sense of purpose. Students are treated with respect and encouraged to be themselves and to feel at home when in school. They are expected to develop rapidly in their maturity and to behave as responsible young adults in a culture of mutual respect.
This is a school where the joy of ideas sits alongside the responsibility to nurture the whole young person.
The new headteacher will benefit from:
- Students who are highly motivated, very talented and great fun to work with.
- A conscientious, talented and cohesive staff team who are used to taking responsibility, working collaboratively and focusing on the needs of their students and those in the broader community.
- The opportunity to have a significant national influence on mathematics and STEM education through the many networks the school is involved in.
- The opportunity to design and equip an excellent permanent school building on the University of Liverpool campus.
- The continued strong support of the University of Liverpool.
- The support of philanthropists, charitable foundations and the Department for Education.
- The opportunity to make a significant difference to education of disadvantaged STEM focused students across the region through the school’s outreach programme.
-The autonomy to determine how funds are spent in order to prioritise the needs of students and support the needs of the staff.
- An intelligent and supportive board of trustees that prioritises ethical leadership and the needs of the school community; trustees at ULMaS provide expert support, challenge and strategic direction.
- The opportunity to contribute to teaching and experience the thrill of seeing students grow and excel every day: this is a hands-on role working with exciting young people in a small school, not a desk job in a vast multi-academy trust.
Employees’ Terms and conditions
The school has its own pay scale and terms and conditions. The school automatically enrols teachers into the national Teachers’ Pensions scheme.
The school’s calendar is available on the website. Our school holidays are based on Liverpool Local Authority term dates but with an earlier end to the summer term. Students finish the year in the first week of July, and most members of staff finish a week later. Staff members will sometimes be required to work some days during school holidays and occasionally evenings and on Saturdays in order to:
- support student admissions,
- deliver outreach to students in other schools,
- teach taster sessions for prospective students,
-and support CPD for staff in other schools.
The Headteacher will be expected to contribute to the teaching delivery in the school. The current Head teacher teaches between 3 and 8 hours per week depending on need. The standard teaching allocation for teachers is 20.5 hours per week.
Our staff members see working at this school as a privilege which offers unrivalled opportunities to teach and learn alongside like-minded colleagues and students
Further details about the role
https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/headteacher-liverpool-l69-7sh-2269886
Link to apply for the role, plus further information available via TES
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.