Headteacher
| Posting date: | 19 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Location: | Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 3LL |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | fb5f7320-e73a-4cd1-9c4f-445cc01e169e |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• To lead Trevelyan Middle School, ensuring an exceptional education for all
• To role model and foster in staff the behavioural dynamics from thePioneering Leadership Framework
• To meet and exceed local, regional, and national benchmarks of anexceptional education
• To be deliberately developmental and pioneer new approaches that resultin an exceptional educational for all, a great place to work, and ethical,impactful leadership that serves our community
Expectations for the Headteacher:
Pioneer Educational Trust expects the Headteacher to demonstrate that theypossess the requisite leadership knowledge, skills, experience, and personaland professional capacities and dispositions to undertake this role. Candidatesshould demonstrate a deep understanding, alignment, and active commitmentto Pioneer Educational Trust’s ethos and work, including our mission, vision,values, policies, practices, and frameworks.
In particular, candidates should demonstrate the following leadershipbehaviours:
• Seek heat: Having high levels of emotional resilience and the capacity to find joy in complexity, overcome challenges, and learn incessantly.
• Welcome accountability: The ability to confront reality, embrace responsibility, and drive innovative solutions
• Communicate with clarity and candour: The skill to communicate in effective, timely, sensitive, and respectful ways, adapting to audiences, and delivering complex messages with clarity, candour and credibility.
• Build trust: The ability to form, develop, and sustain effective and ethical relationships from across the community, including staff, parents/carers, pupils, governors, trustees, and Pioneer Educational Trust staff
• Use self-awareness to self-regulate: Having accurate self-knowledge and the ability to act with intentionality, flexing leadership approaches as appropriate to the needs of the context, maintaining optimism, joy, and determination when challenged.
• Serve others: Using leadership to serve our communities through intelligent collaboration, building and contributing to diverse networks, and developing and inspiring others to action.
What the school offers its staff
At Pioneer Educational Trust, we believe in taking education further. This means providing an exceptional, inclusive education to all children and young people and preparing our learners to thrive at intrapersonal, interpersonal, societal, and global levels. Through an outstanding curriculum, strong pastoral systems, and meaningful personal development, our learners' experience is inclusive, relational, and empowering.
With our current Headteacher moving on to an exciting new stage in their career, we are thrilled to invite an inspiring leader to join Trevelyan Middle School’s vibrant school community and help shape an outstanding future for our pupils.
It is never dull, often challenging and demanding in the best possible way at Trevelyan. It’s an exciting and extraordinarily worthwhile and fulfilling place to be. The team is passionate, professional and deeply committed to its pupils and the ethos of inspire, challenge and grow runs through everything they do to ensure an exceptional education for all.
This year we proudly opened The Acorn Base, our new Resource Base for pupils with cognition and learning needs. Its success reflects our commitment to exceptional, inclusive education and our belief in challenging inequality, valuing every individual and creating the conditions for all to thrive. The successful candidate will share this ethos — pioneering in practice, interconnected in approach and unwavering in their commitment to ensuring every learner is supported, celebrated and able to flourish.
If you want to be part of a community that is knowledgeable, empowered and committed to taking principled action in service to others, then please read on. If you want to lead ethically and work with local, national, and international educational communities, then this role is for you.
You will have the opportunity to:
• Deliver an exceptional school culture where all pupils thrive and reach their full potential
• Implement and sustain a consistent and effective behaviour policy that fosters a respectful and safe learning environment.
• Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Be part of a wider Trust team and bring your expertise and knowledge to ensure all pupils thrive and reach their full potential
And when you join us you will have access to a number of excellent benefits:
Professional development: We are committed to the growth of all our colleagues. With our CPDL Wednesdays, staff have dedicated time for professional development and collaborative working, ensuring continuous improvement and shared best practices.
Flexible Working: We have been at the forefront of pioneering a flexible working in schools since 2019 focusing on the presumption that flexible working can work unless there is a genuine operational reason that it cannot. This is achieved through our unique, transparent and inclusive flexible job design process. As a Department for Education Flexible Working Ambassador MAT, we share our expertise regionally and nationally.
Positive work environment: Enjoy a supportive and enriching working environment with free refreshments, free annual flu vaccinations, and an Employee Assistance Programme offering advice on wellbeing, and more.
Exceptional leadership opportunities: Our vertical leadership principles provide exceptional trust-wide leadership development opportunities, enabling you to flourish and be fulfilled.
Pioneer Summit: All staff attend our collaborative annual Pioneer Summit. A fun packed day of keynote speakers, workshops and activities. It’s a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues across the Trust and to recognise and celebrate our achievements.
All you have to do bring is your authentic self, an innovative leader passionate about raising standards in teaching and learning with values aligning with ours.
If our vision and values resonate with you, then apply now to be part of a community that is knowledgeable, empowered and committed to taking principled action in service to others. Join us on our mission to take education further and transform lives.
Further details about the role
We’re passionate about diversity because it drives innovation, sparks creativity, and delivers better results.
Our goal? A workforce that reflects the rich diversity of the people and communities we serve. We value different experiences, perspectives, and expertise and we create an environment where everyone can grow and thrive.
Inclusive RecruitmentWhen we hire, we actively seek out diverse talent. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. As part of this commitment, we guarantee an interview to any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Need reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process? Just let us know—we’re here to help.
Commitment to safeguarding
Pioneer Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This post is subject to satisfactory references, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check (previously CRB check), and evidence of essential qualifications and proof of legal working in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
• To lead Trevelyan Middle School, ensuring an exceptional education for all
• To role model and foster in staff the behavioural dynamics from thePioneering Leadership Framework
• To meet and exceed local, regional, and national benchmarks of anexceptional education
• To be deliberately developmental and pioneer new approaches that resultin an exceptional educational for all, a great place to work, and ethical,impactful leadership that serves our community
Expectations for the Headteacher:
Pioneer Educational Trust expects the Headteacher to demonstrate that theypossess the requisite leadership knowledge, skills, experience, and personaland professional capacities and dispositions to undertake this role. Candidatesshould demonstrate a deep understanding, alignment, and active commitmentto Pioneer Educational Trust’s ethos and work, including our mission, vision,values, policies, practices, and frameworks.
In particular, candidates should demonstrate the following leadershipbehaviours:
• Seek heat: Having high levels of emotional resilience and the capacity to find joy in complexity, overcome challenges, and learn incessantly.
• Welcome accountability: The ability to confront reality, embrace responsibility, and drive innovative solutions
• Communicate with clarity and candour: The skill to communicate in effective, timely, sensitive, and respectful ways, adapting to audiences, and delivering complex messages with clarity, candour and credibility.
• Build trust: The ability to form, develop, and sustain effective and ethical relationships from across the community, including staff, parents/carers, pupils, governors, trustees, and Pioneer Educational Trust staff
• Use self-awareness to self-regulate: Having accurate self-knowledge and the ability to act with intentionality, flexing leadership approaches as appropriate to the needs of the context, maintaining optimism, joy, and determination when challenged.
• Serve others: Using leadership to serve our communities through intelligent collaboration, building and contributing to diverse networks, and developing and inspiring others to action.
What the school offers its staff
At Pioneer Educational Trust, we believe in taking education further. This means providing an exceptional, inclusive education to all children and young people and preparing our learners to thrive at intrapersonal, interpersonal, societal, and global levels. Through an outstanding curriculum, strong pastoral systems, and meaningful personal development, our learners' experience is inclusive, relational, and empowering.
With our current Headteacher moving on to an exciting new stage in their career, we are thrilled to invite an inspiring leader to join Trevelyan Middle School’s vibrant school community and help shape an outstanding future for our pupils.
It is never dull, often challenging and demanding in the best possible way at Trevelyan. It’s an exciting and extraordinarily worthwhile and fulfilling place to be. The team is passionate, professional and deeply committed to its pupils and the ethos of inspire, challenge and grow runs through everything they do to ensure an exceptional education for all.
This year we proudly opened The Acorn Base, our new Resource Base for pupils with cognition and learning needs. Its success reflects our commitment to exceptional, inclusive education and our belief in challenging inequality, valuing every individual and creating the conditions for all to thrive. The successful candidate will share this ethos — pioneering in practice, interconnected in approach and unwavering in their commitment to ensuring every learner is supported, celebrated and able to flourish.
If you want to be part of a community that is knowledgeable, empowered and committed to taking principled action in service to others, then please read on. If you want to lead ethically and work with local, national, and international educational communities, then this role is for you.
You will have the opportunity to:
• Deliver an exceptional school culture where all pupils thrive and reach their full potential
• Implement and sustain a consistent and effective behaviour policy that fosters a respectful and safe learning environment.
• Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Be part of a wider Trust team and bring your expertise and knowledge to ensure all pupils thrive and reach their full potential
And when you join us you will have access to a number of excellent benefits:
Professional development: We are committed to the growth of all our colleagues. With our CPDL Wednesdays, staff have dedicated time for professional development and collaborative working, ensuring continuous improvement and shared best practices.
Flexible Working: We have been at the forefront of pioneering a flexible working in schools since 2019 focusing on the presumption that flexible working can work unless there is a genuine operational reason that it cannot. This is achieved through our unique, transparent and inclusive flexible job design process. As a Department for Education Flexible Working Ambassador MAT, we share our expertise regionally and nationally.
Positive work environment: Enjoy a supportive and enriching working environment with free refreshments, free annual flu vaccinations, and an Employee Assistance Programme offering advice on wellbeing, and more.
Exceptional leadership opportunities: Our vertical leadership principles provide exceptional trust-wide leadership development opportunities, enabling you to flourish and be fulfilled.
Pioneer Summit: All staff attend our collaborative annual Pioneer Summit. A fun packed day of keynote speakers, workshops and activities. It’s a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues across the Trust and to recognise and celebrate our achievements.
All you have to do bring is your authentic self, an innovative leader passionate about raising standards in teaching and learning with values aligning with ours.
If our vision and values resonate with you, then apply now to be part of a community that is knowledgeable, empowered and committed to taking principled action in service to others. Join us on our mission to take education further and transform lives.
Further details about the role
We’re passionate about diversity because it drives innovation, sparks creativity, and delivers better results.
Our goal? A workforce that reflects the rich diversity of the people and communities we serve. We value different experiences, perspectives, and expertise and we create an environment where everyone can grow and thrive.
Inclusive RecruitmentWhen we hire, we actively seek out diverse talent. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. As part of this commitment, we guarantee an interview to any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Need reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process? Just let us know—we’re here to help.
Commitment to safeguarding
Pioneer Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This post is subject to satisfactory references, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check (previously CRB check), and evidence of essential qualifications and proof of legal working in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.